The bromance is over: Why did Cory turn on Tony?

There was a time they bonded over the Queen, their distaste for the burka, and love for Margaret Thatcher. But the bromance is over.

A right turn-off: the year in politics

The election campaign, which culminated in the nation reluctantly re-instating Malcolm Turnbull as Prime Minister, was loudly decried as too long and too boring.

The economic crunch that could usher in an equality revolution

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Men will have to step into traditionally female roles and claim them.

Minister signals rethink on isolation of children in custody

The NSW government has signalled it will "move away" from lengthy confinements of children in detention centres after Fairfax Media revealed teenage boys are being locked up alone for 23 hours per day.

Turnbull and Abbott's Rudd-Gillard moment

"Someone should be standing there saying, 'Is that really that smart, Tony?' but he doesn't seem to have those people around him anymore."

Abbott blasts 'toxic' culture of leaks, says he stands 'ready to serve'

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Tony Abbott said people who think his reform push is a Trojan horse for his own leadership ambitions were "being neurotic".

The Mitchell Memoirs: former editor launches his book, and Malcolm feels the love

Newspapers, said the Prime Minister, are a "wonderful romantic business".

ALP took more than $330K from big banks, then called for a Royal Commission into them

The Labor party took more than $330,000 in donations from the big banks in the 2014-15 financial year.

Oops! Hanson caught drinking (allegedly) halal milk

There's only one way to put this. We're going to have to ask you to please explain, Pauline.