Australia's first female foreign minister Julie Bishop is being urged to help plug the gap in aid funding caused by Donald Trump's "global gag rule" prohibiting US dollars from being used for abortions.
But burden of proof still on welfare agency's clients.
The government has raised the prospect of increasing taxes if Labor and the Senate crossbench continue to obstruct its cuts to family tax benefits, paid parental leave and unemployment payments.
The former deputy head of the Central Intelligence Agency, Michael Morell, has some advice for Malcolm Turnbull next time the Australian Prime Minister has to get on the phone to Donald Trump: flatter him.
Coalition defector Cory Bernardi will team up with rogue Liberal Ian Macdonald to get former prime ministers booted off the Life Gold Pass.
It's the fight that has become the proxy war between the pro and anti coal forces in Australia and it's entering its fiercest round.
The use of force against detainees in Australia's immigration detention centres more than doubled in just nine months.
A trove of official data about incidents at Australia's offshore detention centre in Nauru has been censored at the request of the Nauruan government.
The RSL NSW council says it is prepared to stand aside en masse and have a caretaker put in place while claims it mishandled financial misconduct allegations are investigated - but only if it gets to choose the caretaker.
Eight months after it was axed as a result of government funding cuts, the ABC's Fact Check department is to be relaunched – as a joint venture with a university.
The Turnbull government's plan to link disability funding to welfare cuts has backfired spectacularly.
In November, a Grattan Institute report said soft drinks should be taxed like cigarettes and leaded petrol to boost the budget by $520 million per year and tackle Australia's obesity epidemic.
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.
Ken Boston has blasted both sides of politics in a scathing speech.
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.
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.
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.
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