Embattled One Nation senator Rod Culleton referred to police over letter to QLD magistrate
Letter noted One Nation senator and others were watching with interest the conduct of all Australian judicial officers.
Letter noted One Nation senator and others were watching with interest the conduct of all Australian judicial officers.
Australia faces a "social time bomb" over the failure to process and integrate more than 30,000 asylum seekers who are in the community on bridging visas after arriving by boat during the term of the former Labor government.
Two Liberal MPs have clashed over Peter Dutton's comments about Lebanese Muslim migrants to Australia, days after the Immigration Minister criticised the refugee policies of former Liberal prime minister Malcolm Fraser.
New research has thrown doubt over a shock poll that found half of all Australians wanted to end Muslim immigration, with Monash University scientists dismissing the survey as "a gross simplification".
Crossbenchers say they will unleash hell on the Turnbull government if it reneges on the groundbreaking deal.
"They had taken all my guns, so I couldn't shoot myself, so I poured petrol over myself and walked into a fire".
It's been two weeks since Pauline Hanson last spoke to her embattled senator Rod Culleton, but the West Australian senator says he is a "good soldier" who will continue to fight for his constituents.
The Senate has passed one of the Coalition government's key bills targeting unions in an overnight session.
Up to 70 gigaltires will be redirected to agriculture because of concerns about job losses in rural towns.
Malcolm Turnbull's own department is attempting to bury an "urgent" review of offensive Wikipedia edits made by public servants.
Several Nationals staged a revolt in the Parliament with two backbench senators crossing the floor and four others abstaining from a vote to lift the ban on the Adler shotgun.
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The governments of Nigeria, Indonesia and Malaysia - Australia's competitors in the oil and gas export sector - extract twice as much tax revenue from petroleum companies as a proportion of production than the federal and state governments combined.
The government is understood to have secured only five of the eight votes it needs for the bill to pass.
Rebel Coalition staffers "gutless and unconvincing" says Abetz aide.
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Microphone also captured the Attorney-General saying the Coalition is alarmed about the growing popularity of One Nation.
Treasurer Scott Morrison has signalled a return to budget surplus in 2020-21 could again be delayed, with low wages growth holding back government revenue.
Three women who reportedly cost taxpayers thousands of dollars by protesting on the roof of Immigration Minister Peter Dutton's electoral office in Brisbane have been fined $100 each.
Report also mounts a powerful argument that officials statistics on self-harm and threatened self-harm dramatically understate the scale of the problem.
What was extraordinary about this text message was that it is not extraordinary at all.
About 500,000 taxpayers who claim tax deductions for non-compulsory work uniforms could be denied the benefit under a new proposal.
A senior NASA official has taken the extraordinary step of personally rebuking One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts' claims the agency had falsified key data.
The Greens have ramped up their rhetoric against the alliance with the United States in the wake of Donald Trump's victory, suggesting the strategic arrangement has become a "security threat to Australia".
Fresh calls for arbitration after Agriculture, AAT and National Museum all vote no.
One Nation senator Rod Culleton has lost his bid to delay a hearing into his eligibility to stand for the Senate, declaring he will demand a jury for the High Court case but "has already won".
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says the US alliance is "stronger than ever" thanks to Barack Obama's leadership after the pair met for the final time before Donald Trump takes over the White House in January.
Australia's tax system has become skewed towards a growing and apparently untouchable group of 'taxed nots' - they are older Australians who pay roughly $1 billion per year less tax than younger Australians in the same circumstances, according to a new Grattan Institute report.
Malcolm Turnbull has met with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on the sidelines of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in Lima.
Every federal MP is expected to link arms with Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten next week in a national declaration of "no more" to the scourge family and community violence.
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