Australia's Chief Scientist Dr Alan Finkel has said US President Donald Trump's move to censor environmental data is 'reminiscent' of former Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's control of science in the USSR.
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Former prime minister Kevin Rudd has hit back at Rupert Murdoch's News Corp Australia, accusing the company of a "bullying culture".
Cory Bernardi is set to upend centre-right politics in Australia and announce on Tuesday that he is resigning from the Liberal Party.
Outspoken Coalition MP says he has no plans to join a new breakaway party but warns things have to change.
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has echoed Donald Trump's praise for Russian president Vladimir Putin, calling him "a strong leader" and entertaining the prospect she could become prime minister of Australia. Â
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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says the Liberal Party was too broke to pay its federal director for several months in 2015, defending his record breaking $1.75 million donation to boost campaign coffers.
Malcolm Turnbull has dismissed suggestions Australia will be indebted to US President Donald Trump if he proceeds with the refugee resettlement deal, insisting there is no quid pro quo for future military support.
Executive pay packets at Australia's biggest private health insurers have soared at the same time as consumers have endured a succession of above-inflation annual increases in the price of health cover.
Voters in a swathe of Coalition seats believe federal government MPs should be given a free vote on same-sex marriage.
Climate science at the CSIRO is bouncing back one year after executives modelled its demise, securing new revenue streams in the Pacific and China and looking to hire new staff.
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The Turnbull government is set to put the brakes on federal money pouring into "over-funded" private schools in a new deal to take effect next year.
Opposition education spokeswoman Tanya Plibersek called for full funding of the Gonski agreement beyond the end of this year.
The Turnbull government is preparing for frenzied negotiations as it seeks to pass the childcare package, company tax cuts and media ownership changes.Â
 An Iranian refugee who attempted to seek asylum in Fiji could face criminal charges after being forcibly deported back to Papua New Guinea.
Tony Abbott has delivered a blunt message to the man who replaced him as prime minister.
Tensions within the government over same-sex marriage have erupted again with conservative MPs warning the Prime Minister that allowing a free vote on this issue would be a "betrayal".
Senator Jacqui Lambie has accused unnamed figures within the NSW RSL of trying to drive out the league's chief executive.
One of the Liberal Party's top fundraising bodies has quietly begun bankrolling the organisations behind two of the Coalition's biggest crossbench supporters.
New York: The Trump White House has given its clearest public commitment yet that it will honour the refugee agreement made with Australia even as the president's official spokesman got the name of Australia's prime minister wrong for the second day in a row.
Australian and American officials spent Friday scrambling to shore up the US refugee swap deal – and repair damage to the alliance relationship – amid signs that Donald Trump will likely follow through on the agreement with Malcolm Turnbull.
The push to allow a free vote is being driven by the backbench, though some cabinet ministers are aware the discussions are under way.
An RSL NSW state councillor who resigned recently on principle over the financial scandal engulfing the league has made a frank admission that "no one of that era is completely exonerated" as the leadership faces a looming grassroots backlash.
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A young Iranian refugee has been forcibly returned to PNG after police intercepted him en route to lodging an asylum claim in Fiji.
The Prime Minister's Office has suspended an administrative staffer amid a storm prompted by a Sydney shock jock.
"Clean coal" plants that the Turnbull government has flagged could get clean energy subsidies are more expensive than solar, wind and gas-fired power and would lead to higher electricity price rises, analysts have warned.
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