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Senator likens black and white-dressed female cabinet minister to zebra
A Labor senator has been blasted for using the appearance of Michaelia Cash as the butt of a joke about animals.
Heath Aston is a federal political correspondent. Most recently Heath was the state political editor for the Sun-Herald. Before joining the NSW press gallery he worked for newspapers in Sydney and London.
A Labor senator has been blasted for using the appearance of Michaelia Cash as the butt of a joke about animals.
The Turnbull government has threatened to sue a retiree who established a little-visited website that campaigns against cuts to Medicare, accusing him of unauthorised use of the healthcare system's green and yellow logo.
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.
One of the architects of Australia's tax system on natural resources, Craig Emerson, has backed calls for a parliamentary inquiry into why the boom in liquefied natural gas exports is failing to deliver any meaningful contribution to the public purse.
Australia's most senior public servant, Martin Parkinson, has taken a veiled swipe at the short-sightedness of Donald Trump's pledge to tear up the Trans-Pacific Partnership and scale back the United States' economic leadership in Asia.
Labor is attempting to mobilise ethnic communities against the Liberal Party's latest push to water down legal protections against hate speech enshrined in Section 18c of the Racial Discrimination Act.
Crisis in the leadership ranks of the RSL in NSW has deepened, with two councillors resigning in disgust at the league's handling of the controversy.
Malcolm Turnbull's "ring of steel" asylum seeker arrangements designed to buttress his new US resettlement deal could be weakened by Labor, Greens and crossbench opposition to a proposed lifetime visa ban on post-2013 boat arrivals.
Every Australian prime minister from John Howard onward should be investigated for crimes against humanity in relation to the indefinite detention of asylum seekers, a group of international lawyers claims.
Australia's offshore detention system would be shut down before the next federal election under a series of international deals.
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