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Turnbull advances partial uni fee deregulation
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has made the case for allowing universities to set the fees for a select number of courses.
Fergus Hunter is a breaking news reporter for Fairfax Media in the federal press gallery at Parliament House
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has made the case for allowing universities to set the fees for a select number of courses.
A program aiming to find people in disadvantaged communities jobs and skills training, and overcome social issues preventing these opportunities, has been announced as the ALP's latest big policy spend.
Following days of interrogation and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten's demands for an investigation, the Liberal Party has sought to address the Parakeelia revelations, defending the arrangement and flagging full assistance with any questions from regulators.
Child protesters have attempted to gatecrash a lavish Vaucluse fundraiser being attended by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
On Friday, Opposition Leader Bill Shorten and Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen unveiled a suite of savings measures worth $16.2 billion targeting family tax benefits, private health insurance and higher education. Some of the cuts had originally been proposed by the Coalition and rejected by the opposition.
Some of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's closest advisers have been drawn into a heated shouting match with a local Greens protestor on a campaign stop on the Sunshine Coast.
As weaponised posturing continues between the US and China in the Asia-Pacific region, Malcolm Turnbull backs Australia's longtime ally as the ultimate force for prosperity and security in the 21st century.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has declared himself a feminist - something Foreign Minister Julie Bishop and Minister for Women Michaelia Cash have previously refused to do.
Malcolm Turnbull's father-in-law, former attorney-general Tom Hughes, called Tony Abbott a "lunatic" and urged Mr Turnbull to stay in politics after losing the Liberal leadership in 2009, predicting the party's "folly" would pass.
A protester wearing a clownfish costume bailed up Mr Turnbull on a campaign stop in Adelaide, demanding the government do more to save Nemo's endangered habitat, the Great Barrier Reef.
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