Immigration Minister Peter Dutton's remarks linking of terrorism with past levels of Lebanese Muslim migration will do "immense damage" to the government's attempts to engage Islamic communities in the battle against violent extremism, a leading expert has warned.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics made the right call to shut down the disastrous 2016 census but the website's troubles were avoidable and rooted in years of bad decisions, a parliamentary inquiry has found.
Security officers have blocked parliamentary staff from campaigning for improved pay inside Parliament House.
A former federal public servant who says she suffered six years of racism from her boss is claiming more than $1 million in compensation from the Commonwealth.
Hours before the Labor MP catapulted herself to national attention, she closed the door to her office and started typing.
Labor frontbencher Terri Butler has lashed out at a "hypocritical" lawsuit commenced against her over a remark on the ABC's Q&A; program.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has promised to review legal advice that led to a retiree being threatened with court action unless he pulls down his "save Medicare" website as intellectual property experts questioned strength of the government's position.
The staggering figure was revealed in the British government's seasonal budget update, known as the Autumn Statement.
Bank employees who break the rules would be publicly named and shamed within five days under changes proposed by a parliamentary committee examining the big four banks.
Australia's alliance with the United States should not be taken for granted or questioned on the basis of who is in the White House, Department of Defence secretary Dennis Richardson has warned in a highly unusual public commentary on politics.
Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has turned the heat on those who have criticised him for his comments on terrorism problems in the Lebanese-Australian community, asserting that everything he has said is factual and that Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has been deceptive.
Greens senator Richard Di Natale has lost 16 staff in the 18 months since he became party leader, out of a total office complement of 23 people.
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With one speech Labor MP Emma Husar has shone a spotlight on the often hidden crime of domestic violence. This is her full speech.
Former prime minister Tony Abbott is preparing to put pen to paper and write a sequel to his 2009 book Battlelines.
Women are invisible at the top of Australian business, Labor MP Anne Aly said on Wednesday.
After four rejections of proposed workplace deal, department secretary says it's all the union's fault.
Labor legal affairs spokesman Mark Dreyfus threatened to resign from the front bench if Bill Shorten backed the appointment of a key ally, Kimberley Kitching, to casual senate vacancy.
Pauline Hanson and Rod Culleton finally met to discuss their differences over a potentially criminal letter.
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.
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.
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".
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.
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