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A senior executive of a major construction company has strongly criticised the Master Builders Association and the Fair Work Building Commission for running a propaganda campaign to portray the industry as corrupt and to promote the Federal Government's political agenda.

"They don't like Christmas, they don't like Australia Day, they're just miserable gutted people and I wish they would crawl under a rock and hide".

Website now only says when the NBN is expected to be available, not which technology will be rolled out to your street.

Julia Gillard, Jimmy Barnes, Stephen Gageler and Mick Fanning are among Order of Australia appointees today.

The issue is key for Australian providers of financial services into the Eurozone as the passporting system allows businesses to operate in participating countries without needing permission from each individual country.

Alan Mackay-Sim helped achieve a feat described as "more impressive than man walking on the moon".

The death of Vicki Jellie's husband led her on a journey that has seen the fundraiser named Australia's Local Hero for 2017.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's vaunted US 'solution' to resettle hundreds of refugees from Manus Island and Nauru faces collapse as the freshly minted US President Donald Trump eyes new bans on immigration.

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The Reserve Bank has been given licence to leave interest rates on hold at its first board meeting for the year, after the delivery of a low inflation result in line with its expectations and signs it will lift.

Is shotgun-loving senator Bridget McKenzie a double agent inside the newly-formed parliamentary friends of gun control?

Labor has slammed US President Donald Trump's decision to reinstate the anti-abortion global gag rule, calling on the Turnbull government to lobby the new administration to ditch the "dangerous and damaging" policy.

"Without the US, the TPP pact is meaningless, as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has clearly said," Japan's deputy cabinet secretary said.

Centrelink public servants have stepped up their internal resistance to the welfare agency's controversial "robo-debt" program.

Architects have backed down on their opposition to a 2.6 metre fence outside Parliament, following a secret briefing.

"God save our gracious queen! Long live our noble queen! God save the queen!"

"Houses will always be incredibly expensive if you can see the Opera House and the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Just accept that," says Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce.

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

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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.

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Labor is preparing to fire a fresh salvo in the political fight over penalty rates, ahead of a long-awaited decision from the Fair Work Commission on whether to cut Sunday penalty rates.

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If the Trans-Pacific Partnership was really as good for jobs and growth as Malcolm Turnbull says it was, he would be able to point to a study saying so.

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

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.

Men were nominated at more than twice the rate of women, with no female nominations in six of 31 categories.

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.