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The scale of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's personal donation to the troubled Liberal Party election campaign will be kept secret for another year.

• 43 mins ago

The Greens received more than $1 million from two big donors last financial year, helping bankroll the party's campaign for the July 2 federal election.

• ANALYSIS
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Hiding behind arcane reporting rules for years after the fact is not merely untenable, it is next-level hamfisted.

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The White House appears to be backing away from a commitment to honour a deal struck by the Obama administration to take more than a thousand refugees from Australia's offshore detention centres.

Soaring electricity prices under Labor's green energy target, a re-commitment to "job creating" company tax cuts, and new savings to fund more affordable childcare are shaping as key battlelines in the political contest this year as Malcolm Turnbull outlines his government's strategy on Wednesday.

Former One Nation senator Rod Culleton had a minor victory in the High Court, when it was declared he was to be referred to as "Senator Culleton" for the duration of the day's proceedings.

Australian dual-nationals will not be affected by Donald Trump's controversial immigration ban, as part of a deal secured with the White House and announced by Malcolm Turnbull on Tuesday. 

Australia most powerful unionist, Australian Council of Trade Unions secretary Dave Oliver, has resigned his post after nearly five years in the job.

Donors may have exploited a loophole that would shield transactions worth millions of dollars from public scrutiny.

The Turnbull government has paid an estimated $1 million in compensation and formally apologised to nine charity workers who were ejected from Nauru in 2014 after unsubstantiated claims of political activism and impropriety.

• EXCLUSIVE

New research ridicules the prime minister's claim that cutting the company tax rate will boost foreign investment, pointing out that almost all of Australia's foreign investment applications come from countries with much lower tax rates.

A meeting of the NSW Young Liberals was shut down in disgrace on Monday night after two men dressed in KKK hoods stormed the stage during a debate about immigration.

Australia is falling behind modern Asian economies and could become an "unskilled enclave", according to Opposition Leader Bill Shorten, because low-cost labour is taking Australian jobs.

An Iranian-Australian dual national, Shadi Sherafat was hard at work in America. But now her life has been turned upside down.

The former diplomat says he's never been pushed to this point before.

Banned asbestos and other dangerous building products are slipping through Australian border protections, a senate inquiry has heard.

By Amber Wilson

The family home has eclipsed superannuation as Australia's biggest tax break.

On Monday, more than 113 years since the first chief justice of the High Court was sworn in and 30 years after the first woman sat on its bench, Justice Kiefel was sworn in as the court's first female chief justice.

• EXCLUSIVE

Julie Bishop wants Australia to be given the same special treatment extended to Canada and the United Kingdom.

"It's not my job as Prime Minister of Australia to run a commentary on the domestic policies of other countries".

Seven speeches that failed to give political leaders the fresh start they craved - or just plain backfired.

"I urge Malcolm Turnbull to reconsider what our nation's position ought to be and rethink what he should be saying on our behalf."

• EXCLUSIVE

When Scott Morrison rose in Parliament to promise high-end tax cuts, he knew he faced a powerful obstacle.

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says the Turnbull government will support Donald Trump's administration on "strong immigration and border protection policies", as the leaders of the United Kingdom and Germany criticise an executive order banning entry to the United States for refugees and citizens from a range of majority Muslim countries. 

Iranian-born NSW Senator, Sam Dastyari, fears he may be among those caught up by the Trump administration's freeze on visitors and migrants from seven Muslim nations as confusion reigns around the world in the wake of the US order.

Details of who will be resettled in the US remain unclear.

Department got $104 million to replace creaking system. Four years later, it's still there.

• COMMENT

Australians are probably wondering what it would take? What level of betrayal or irresponsible strategic posturing by Washington would be serious enough to get a rise out of Canberra?