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 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.

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New Labor MP Emma Husar has opened up about her personal experience of domestic violence in a speech to Parliament that left her colleagues in tears.

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After four rejections of proposed workplace deal, department secretary says it's all the union's fault.

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A Labor senator has been blasted for using the appearance of Michaelia Cash as the butt of a joke about animals.

"They had taken all my guns, so I couldn't shoot myself, so I poured petrol over myself and walked into a fire".

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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.

Australia has a new Ambassador for Women and Girls, a shrewd move by Julie Bishop on the eve of a Trump presidency.

Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce has rubbished a Grattan Institute proposal to introduce a soft drink tax in Australia, saying it is a "bonkers mad" idea that would restrict individual freedom and harm the local sugar industry.

 A tense encounter is expected this morning between One Nation leader Pauline Hanson and her colleague Rodney Culleton after one of the pair failed to attend a planned crisis meeting on Tuesday night.

Cory Bernardi says his three months in the US witnessing Donald Trump has inspired him to be a "catalyst for change" in Australia.

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 Turnbull government's proposed lifetime ban on resettled asylum seekers receiving visas to visit Australia is "severe and exceptional" and could disproportionately target people on the basis of race, a parliamentary committee has found.

Crossbenchers say they will unleash hell on the Turnbull government if it reneges on the groundbreaking deal.

Letter noted One Nation senator and others were watching with interest the conduct of all Australian judicial officers.

The United Kingdom, Ireland, Belgium, France, Fiji, Mexico, South Africa and parts of America have sugar taxes. Australia could be next.

The parliamentary committee considering whether to recommend the federal government ratify its extradition treaty with China has called a last-minute hearing with the Attorney-General's Department due to "real doubts" emerging from both sides of politics over the deal.h

The president of the Liberal National Party has publicly slapped down federal Attorney-General George Brandis over the senator's open mic gaffe on the weekend, in which he cast doubt on the future of the party.

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".

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.