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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.
Gas tax inquiry is moment of clarity for Scott Morrison
Australia is giving away 85.5 million tonnes of LNG a year for free. Well, to be sold by fossil fuel companies to Japan, Korea and China.
Superglue? Screaming? Call that a protest?
As a protest, it was pretty lame, if loud and, for the demonstrators, satisfyingly disruptive.
Counting your chickens a poor idea when they're headless chooks
This shambles was perfectly predictable and it makes you wonder about the quality of smarts in the government.
Turnbull delivers lesson on politics of the centre
It was a rare glimpse of the huge forces within the black hole of the current Senate, and a tutorial in the revived art of governing for results by Malcolm Turnbull.
The Senate: Hinch finds it's no place for sensitive old men
Forget the quaint view that the Senate is a retirement home for fogeys.
George Brandis damage: the central question for Turnbull
The responsibility for integrity assurance now moves to the Prime Minister.
Great Barrier Reef suffers worst ever bleaching event: study
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Diversity in One Nation, where views collide
One Nation is a very democratic party. So democratic, indeed, that its parliamentarians apparently don't discuss with each other what the party's stance might be on legislation, and then publicly disagree..
A plague on both your houses: Fairfax Ipsos shows minor parties prospering
A plague on both your houses, Labor and Liberal, is the evidence of today's Farirfax Ipsos poll for the two main parties. Both have suffered a slump in their primary vote.
Malcolm, Mr Zero, Turnbull and the all-time high flight of voters to minor parties
Your personally curated news with six things you need to know before you get going.
These numbers reveal an underwhelmed and disengaged electorate
Forget post-truth. This is the era of post-hope, where the instinct of voters is to give the finger to an established order.
The Greens will cop it for their new drugs policy. But they're right
There has perhaps never been a more obvious, more protracted and more destructive public policy failure in the history of democracy than the war on drugs.
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
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First Robert Mitchum, then Donald Trump: let's attend to our own stories
My father was a great believer in Australian stories.
America's political system is not so great
The Americans have elected Donald Trump and barring unforeseen circumstances they'll have him for the next four years.
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
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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.