![The home ownership inquiry, commissioned by Joe Hockey in April 2015, has a long and tortured history.](/web/20161219200653im_/http://www.watoday.com.au/content/dam/images/g/r/m/y/2/p/image.related.landscape.460x307.gtcnks.png/1481945220251.jpg)
Government housing affordability probe makes no recommendations
Labor slammed the parliamentary inquiry as a "waste of taxpayers' money" that has produced a toothless report.
Michael Koziol is a journalist with Fairfax Media.
Labor slammed the parliamentary inquiry as a "waste of taxpayers' money" that has produced a toothless report.
The Australian Tax Office spent $150,000 on a leadership conference for its technology team just weeks before a major crash brought down the agency's website and internal systems for days.
Labor frontbencher Terri Butler has settled a defamation lawsuit with Queensland law student Calum Thwaites over what some described as her "racist smear" on national television.
Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has called for Australians to "rise up" to defend the Christian holiday against what he labelled "political correctness gone mad".
"It is one of the lowest acts I can recall hearing about or seeing in Australian politics".
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Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has warned the United States and Russia must urgently broker a peace deal to stop the bloodletting in Syria following "appalling" reports of mass atrocities in Aleppo.
The embankment, technically called a "berm" and commonly used as a defence against tanks, would have encircled the building.
An apologetic Gillian Triggs says she was "very frustrated" when she slammed Australian politicians as ignorant and uneducated and claimed she could have "destroyed them" in an infamous newspaper interview.
"The great risk is that law-abiding firearm owners will feel they haven't been consulted. They'll feel policymakers and lawmakers are making decisions in areas they don't fully understand."
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