Senate deal could see whistleblowers paid a bounty for exposing wrongdoing
Crossbenchers say they will unleash hell on the Turnbull government if it reneges on the groundbreaking deal.
Matthew Knott is a political reporter in the Canberra bureau covering communications and education policy.
Crossbenchers say they will unleash hell on the Turnbull government if it reneges on the groundbreaking deal.
Nick Xenophon has been warned he will be attacked for breaking a key election promise if his Senate team supports a new compromise on paid parental leave that would increase payments for some parents while reducing payments for those with an employer scheme.
US president-elect Donald Trump is not philosophically opposed to free trade and may even be persuaded to reverse his opposition to the giant Trans Pacific Partnership deal, according to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
The Turnbull government has began intense negotiations with the Senate crossbench as it seeks to pass its double dissolution trigger bills before the end of the year.
Universities will be forced to come clean to prospective students about the real ATAR cut-offs for their courses, following recommendations to the Turnbull government from the nation's top higher education panel.
Communications Minister Mitch Fifield says he will raise concerns with ABC Managing Director Michelle Guthrie about Four Corners' "odd" decision to reject an interview with Immigration Minister Peter Dutton following a controversial documentary on asylum seekers in Nauru.
Australia's biggest private colleges have raked in up to $264 million a year in government loans despite graduating fewer than one in five of their students, new data reveals.
Thousands of pregnant mothers will lose money under a government crackdown on paid parental leave that could start as early as January.
Government warned it "could be found to have engaged in misleading or deceptive conduct" but ignored the advice.
The ABC has hit back at criticism of a Four Corners investigation into the life asylum seeker children on Nauru.
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