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Vote counting - why so long?
The votes are cast, but counting them is no simple task. Peter Martin explains the process - and why it takes so long.
We've fallen from the audacity of hope to the audacity of grope
How many votes do you reckon Kevin Rudd lost when it was revealed he had gone into a seedy New York strip club known as Scores in a drunken manhattan bar crawl? Or what about Donald J Trump? How many do you imagine he lost from the notorious bus tape where he was recorded boasting of preying on and sexually assaulting women?
How Turnbull can shape up for the new year
If the prime minister and his government are to properly revive their fortunes in 2017 they need to become a whole lot better.
George Brandis is unfit to sit at the apex of the nation's legal system
If he did what has been alleged, he ought to go.
When words fail
Peter Dutton found himself in unfamiliar territory this week, cast as the victim of the "tricky language" of Bill Shorten.
Malcolm mouse is not for turning
Voters now understand that the 'real' Turnbull will never emerge.
Australia's budgetary cognitive dissonance
Peter Costello delivered the last federal budget surplus on May 8, 2007.
Tax dodgers are also debate dodgers
We don't have a budget deficit problem; we just have a spineless politician problem.
Donald Trump turns down intelligence briefings as top aide backs a Secretary of State who will travel less
Your personally curated news with six things you need to know before you get going.
First Robert Mitchum, then Donald Trump: let's attend to our own stories
My father was a great believer in Australian stories.
Why Dutton's crime statistics don't tell the whole story
We charge individuals with crimes, not ethnic communities. There is an important reason why.
Pauline Hanson declares she's over her tolerance, but she's no racist
"I am fed up with people... calling me a racist when they cannot find one thing that I have said that is racist."
Slowly but unsurely, Turnbull picks his way forward
A handful of wins towards the end of the year have rescued the Turnbull government from the near certainty of a difficult summer, but progress must be maintained if the government is to recover its balance and make something of 2017.
'I am a survivor of family violence': MP Emma Husar's full speech
With one speech Labor MP Emma Husar has shone a spotlight on the often hidden crime of domestic violence. This is her full speech.
Barnaby, your advice about sugar is particularly rich, and cruel
Never accept dietary advice from the Nationals.
Senate cross-bench menagerie has its uses
The Senate cross bench remains in the limelight as the parliamentary year draws to a close.
Barnaby Joyce, living miracle, offers a health plan
Any advice sugar-loving Barnaby Joyce might have on public health should be taken seriously. The man's a living miracle.
Donald Trump doesn't want to 'lock her up' but continues war on NYT
Your personally curated news with six things you need to know before you get going.
Malcolm Turnbull's Mickey Mouse excuse for his missing ministers
You'd have to believe Mickey Mouse was the Roadrunner to believe that National Party Ministers hadn't gone gun-shy.
Dutton thinks he's got the magic touch
It's easy to take a quick look at Peter Dutton and simply write him off. That would be a mistake.
Donald Trump's new targets: Hamilton the Musical and Saturday Night Live
Your personally curated news with six things you need to know before you get going.
Perhaps Turnbull's refugee ban wasn't so bad after all
Once again, a government has put politics before policy, at the expense of the latter.
The case for a basic income, no questions asked
What if the right to an income was as basic as the right to vote?
Keating not the architect of reform
A close examination shows that Keating was not primarily responsible for any of the major reforms that contributed to Australia's lauded economic growth.
An irrational ultimatum to punish 'unfair' politicians
If mainstream parties fail to provide 'fairness', socially destructive opportunists will step in.
Playing to prejudices does politicians no credit
The initial shock of Donald Trump's election win has already given way to a second-wave effect in Australia, with policymakers adjusting their stances, toughening their rhetoric, playing to prejudices once discredited.
Sketch: We've been making immigration mistakes since the convicts
"Australia has been making mistakes about the sort of people we've been letting in for quite a while now," Peter Dutton mused.
Moonshine for the disenchanted
That whining noise in the background this week was mostly from politicians and businessmen trying to pretend that they have "got" the message from the election of Donald Trump as US President, and about what it means for Australians whom they have pissed-off.
Inequality is the greatest threat to democracy, says President Barack Obama
Your personally curated news with six things you need to know before you get going.
Anthony Albanese warns Labor needs to lift its game
Labor frontbencher Anthony Albanese says the opposition must lift its primary vote and accept that it did not win the last election.
Foreign workers: ground zero in the new political order
It is tempting to conclude that Bill Shorten watched the blue-collar backlash in the US last week and panicked, deciding to condemn foreign workers taking up Australian jobs.
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Campaign highlights - and lowlights
The hurly-burly of the 2016 election campaign, as seen through the eyes of Fairfax reporters and photographers.