• 42 mins ago

The ninth Closing the Gap report has again firmly established that government policy is not bringing about equality between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, with six of seven targets failing.

• 53 mins ago

Union hits back at "misleading, inaccurate and insulting" comments.

Former Liberal minister Andrew Robb pressed the Turnbull government to hold a royal commission into the banks but one with a narrower scope to stymie the Labor party's assault on the major banks, cabinet sources say. 

The Nick Xenophon Team has announced they will oppose the childcare and welfare "omnibus" bill, jeopardising the government's attempt to jam through more than $4 billion worth of savings and reform measures.

Malcolm Turnbull is not the first Australian Prime Minister to stand up to a US President, says Kevin Rudd, citing his own harsh words with George W. Bush over the Iraq War.

Labor "shouldn't be surprised" to be compared unfavourably to One Nation on economics, Trade Minister Steve Ciobo said.

The Coalition and Labor both bear responsibility for the rise of One Nation, a Liberal MP has said, labelling the state of politics a "pox on both parties".

Those running Australia's network of detention camps in the Pacific should be charged with crimes against humanity under a fresh push for international prosecutions.

Bulent Hass Dellal will resist calls for a merger with the ABC.

Pushing ever more renewable energy into the national electricity network is mindless, negligent, and complacent, without new investments in energy storage infrastructure, Malcolm Turnbull has declared as he stepped up his attack on Labor's clean energy policy.

Successive governments have failed to register the Burrup on UNESCO's World Heritage list.

Indigenous Australians have strongly backed  Noel Pearson's call for a new Indigenous body recognised by the constitution to have a voice to the national parliament.

Malcolm Turnbull may be moving to head off the politically damaging feud with the medical profession.

Not all building and construction companies will benefit from the "level playing field" the federal government promised to create with the introduction of its Australian Building and Construction law.

The Turnbull government is ramping up the pressure on Labor and the Senate crossbench to support its welfare cuts by tying the savings to the National Disability Insurance Scheme.

Public service union leader wants a Senate seat, but the competition is tough.

Centrelink's data-matching "incompetent, cruel and uncaring" Parliament hears.

Multinational fossil fuel companies exploiting liquefied natural gas in Australia have built up a further $50 billion in tax credits over the past financial year, further delaying any meaningful royalty payments from the massive export sector.

Staff and students have demanded the leadership of Melbourne's Victoria University apologise for hosting a fundraising event for a controversial anti-Islamic group which featured Liberal defector Cory Bernardi and outspoken backbencher George Christensen.

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Consumers are voters and they won't forget who is to blame if there's a meltdown in our nation's energy supplies.

Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce has condemned the Western Australian Liberal Party's unprecedented decision to preference One Nation ahead of the Nationals at the upcoming state election, a deal that has been defended by Mr Joyce's federal Liberal partners.

• EXCLUSIVE

Federal government attempts to politicise blackouts in direct contravention of advice provided by department officials, emails reveal.

Former Republican congressman Bob Inglis knows something about the cost of climate change. It included his job.

A Turnbull address could commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Battle of the Coral Sea, Midway and Guadalcanal.

The Turnbull government is defending an unprecedented West Australian preference deal that will see the Liberals put One Nation ahead of the Nationals.

An unlikely coalition of energy producers, business groups and environmentalists is calling on politicians on all sides to ditch their "partisan antics" on energy policy and work together.

• EXCLUSIVE

A new push for a full-scale probe into the Australian banking sector is set to test the resolve of key Nationals agitators and the Labor opposition – both have campaigned hard against poor bank behaviour, and promised to back a royal commission even if the government opposes.

Liberal Party defector Cory Bernardi has offered a half-hearted criticism of comments made by former Liberal Party MP Ross Cameron.

• EXCLUSIVE

One of the largest RSL clubs in NSW is under fire for offering loyalty incentives to patrons who gamble up to $300,000 a year on its poker machines.