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Malcolm Turnbull has unleashed a ferocious attack on Bill Shorten, branding him "the greatest example of opposition gutlessness in generations".

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The most widely cited figure in the robo-debt debate is wrong. The true number of mistakes is perhaps as high as 90 per cent.

'Appeals in our office are at record numbers and no-one is doing them.'

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has acknowledged foreign agents may be trying to gather compromising material on individual Australian politicians through cyber attacks, while a Labor MP has said parliamentarians themselves are the "weakest link".

Labor accuses the PM of putting political gain ahead of national security via a newspaper story.

Australia will attempt to salvage what is left of the moribund Trans Pacific Partnership after US President Donald Trump used his first full day of business to formally withdraw from the free trade deal, as he had long promised.

East Timor has dumped its spying case against Australia in the international court, raising hopes of an eventual end to the bitter stand-off over $40 billion in oil and gas fields.

A 31-year-old man detained at Australia's offshore processing centre on Manus Island has been charged with raping a young woman in the provincial centre of Lorengau, Papua New Guinea police said.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership, dead as we know it ten years after negotiations began, was designed to create major changes in the economies of the 12 signatory countries, including Australia.

It's the global ranking Australians don't want.

The peak body representing Australian universities has urged the Turnbull government not to pursue a "dramatic overhaul" of the nation's higher education system because only minor changes are needed.

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They were digital team who figured out how Donald Trump could win - and they're now eyeing off Australia.

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The Wire's arch drug lord Avon Barksdale was philosophical in the face of a long jail sentence: "You only serve two days, the day you go in, and the day you get out". You'd think this mentality could work best for parties consigned to the opposition benches. But no. These days, its governments that feel most hemmed in, constrained at every turn by the crushing weight of febrile politics, internal divisions, anaemic growth, and inevitable disappointment.For Malcolm Turnbull, and indeed most governments recently, Barksdale's advice seems most apposite. Although in Turnbull's case, even the day he won was pretty terrible, marred as it was by something of a hissy-fit.

He complained the case was primarily handled by a "junior staff member" rather than by the president, Gillian Triggs, or one of her close aides.

Searchers for MH370 maintain the missing Malaysia Airlines flight is probably to the north of where they had been looking in the southern Indian Ocean.

But Centrelink whisteblowers worried about their own jobs, say public service bosses.

The Turnbull government's proposed version of marriage equality would further entrench discrimination by allowing civil celebrants and service providers to refuse to undertake gay weddings, the peak law body says.

The Turnbull government is making further moves toward establishing a government backed-bond vehicle for affordable housing as Treasurer Scott Morrison heads to Britain to seek guidance on Australia's housing affordability crisis and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull prioritises the issue.

Australia's national leaders have joined the sombre memorial for victims of the Bourke St rampage, with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull declaring all Australians stood in solidarity with mourners.

Centrelink public servants in the danger zone, bosses missing in action, union claims

Doctors believe the Turnbull government could be contemplating another increase in the Medicare levy.

Former prime minister Kevin Rudd says Donald Trump should be given a chance to calm his temperament and "grow into the job" once he is officially inaugurated as US President on Saturday.

"We're talking about a trust crisis that is causing a systemic meltdown."

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In the uncertain and unpredictable new age of President Trump, Australian policymakers and diplomats will have to work harder than ever before to maintain the US alliance.

Labor supports the review but said it should not be used as an excuse to cut costs.

Passengers would be whisked through immigration and customs without stopping or encountering humans under a radical overhaul due to start this year.

"We will spend what we need to spend to get this job done," former prime minister Tony Abbott declared in March 2014, shortly after the multi-country effort to find recently downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

James Ashby is the name on everyone's lips – as long as those lips aren't identified.

Immigration Minister also backs the wearing of Islamic dress in public.