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A Queensland rural lobby group says the decision by the Government to rule out forcing graziers off their land to expand military bases has set a precedent.
Topics: beef-cattle, federal-government, shoalwater-4702
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| UpdatedPrime Minister Malcolm Turnbull tables the Close the Gap report which again shows slow progress to improve the health and wealth of Indigenous Australians.
Topics: federal-government, federal-parliament, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, turnbull-malcolm, australia
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Paralympian and disability advocate Kurt Fearnley says he is disappointed funding for the National Disability Insurance Scheme has been linked to cuts to social services by the government.
Topics: disabilities, government-and-politics, federal-government, australia
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Australia has promised to close the gap between Indigenous and other Australians on health, education and employment. But we are failing to meet six of seven key goals.
Topics: federal-government, federal-parliament, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, australia
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Topics: political-parties, government-and-politics, federal-government, australia
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| UpdatedOpposition Leader Bill Shorten says the Commonwealth must start talking about reparations for the Stolen Generations, after Malcolm Turnbull hands down the Closing the Gap update. Follow live.
Topics: political-parties, government-and-politics, parliament, federal-parliament, federal-government, australia
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| UpdatedAsylum seekers at Australia's offshore detention centre on Manus Island are begging for help as Papua New Guinean and Australian authorities prepare to deport them.
Topics: refugees, immigration, government-and-politics, federal-government, community-and-society, australia, papua-new-guinea
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The Q&A panel disagrees on the government's proposed cuts to early childhood education.
Topics: access-to-education, government-and-politics, federal-government, welfare, community-and-society, education, preschool, australia
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| UpdatedLabor introduces to parliament a suite of measures to clean up political donations, but the Government says the proposal is "a stunt".
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, federal-parliament, australia
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| UpdatedTreasurer Scott Morrison says he will discuss the establishment of a special savings account to quarantine money for the NDIS with the Senate.
Topics: disabilities, health, government-and-politics, federal-government, australia
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Topics: turnbull-malcolm, federal-government, political-parties, government-and-politics, canberra-2600, australia
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Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, parliament, parliament-house-2600, act, australia
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| UpdatedSpeaker Tony Smith warns federal politicians over props in Parliament after MPs bring coal and solar panels to Question Time.
Topics: government-and-politics, political-parties, federal-government, parliament, federal-parliament, australia
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| UpdatedA diverse alliance of industry, community and environmental groups is calling for a new bipartisan approach to energy policy.
Topics: environment, government-and-politics, federal-government, environmental-policy, federal-parliament, business-economics-and-finance, australia
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Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is sent deep into the jungle of the United States of America to try and smooth things over with newly elected President Donald Trump and quickly discovers how things get… "confused out there". Huw Parkinson explores this harrowing tale.
Topics: turnbull-malcolm, government-and-politics, federal-government, world-politics, australia, united-states
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| UpdatedThere is an entire corner dedicated to One Nation senator Pauline Hanson's image at this year's Bald Archy Prize show — the satirical art prize that every year showcases an ever-revolving array of faces and stories to lampoon.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, painting, visual-art, federal-government, federal-parliament, canberra-2600, act, australia
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| UpdatedProposed strikes in relation to working conditions at Centrelink are off after the Government lodges an official complaint with the Fair Work Commission.
Topics: welfare, federal-government, australia
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| UpdatedThe Department of Human Services is rejecting Freedom of Information requests relating to Centrelink's plagued debt recovery program from various journalists, saying it could not find relevant documents, found too many documents, or that it was unclear which program requests referred to.
Topics: welfare, community-and-society, federal-government, government-and-politics, australia
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| UpdatedFran Kelly and Patricia Karvelas, hosts of the Party Room, choose their winners and losers from the week in federal politics.
Topics: turnbull-malcolm, political-parties, federal-government, government-and-politics, canberra-2600
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| UpdatedThe Government approves a nearly 5 per cent increase in premiums but the Prime Minister urges people to stick with private health insurance.
Topics: health, health-insurance, health-policy, government-and-politics, federal-government, australia
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| UpdatedThe rest of Australia will fall victim to the type of large-scale blackouts experienced in South Australia unless the Federal Government urgently improves its energy policies, the Australian Energy Council says.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, federal---state-issues, community-and-society, australia, nsw, sa, vic
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Why is South Australia running out of power and what is load shedding?
Topics: government-and-politics, electricity-energy-and-utilities, weather, federal-government, federal---state-issues, sa, australia
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| UpdatedThe Federal Opposition says there is no link between two major donations close to policy announcements during last year's election campaign, slamming suggestions the payments were linked to policy decisions.
Topics: federal-government, federal-parliament, unions, government-and-politics, alp, australia
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| UpdatedAustralia Post chairman John Stanhope will be called before the Senate to justify the $5.6 million salary for his chief executive Ahmed Fahour, who earns 10 times as much as the Prime Minister.
Topics: public-sector, federal-government, business-economics-and-finance, australia
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| UpdatedThe Government announces it will ratify an international treaty to improve the management and oversight of Australia's prisons and detention centres by the end of 2017.
Topics: federal-government, law-crime-and-justice, youth, prisons-and-punishment, australia