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A Parliamentary committee calls for laws to make it harder for political parties to impersonate Government departments during an election after Labor's "Mediscare" campaign.
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| UpdatedIt's been more than 36 hours since Donald Trump was confirmed as the US president-elect.
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| UpdatedTrump supporters told me over and over that he would win in a landslide and it seemed to me they were right, according to what I was seeing with my own eyes in Pittsburgh, writes Washington bureau chief Zoe Daniel.
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The Australian Electoral Commission says it needs more funding to update IT systems that run elections, warning they are "at the end of their useful life".
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| UpdatedDonald Trump's campaign bluntly acknowledges the real estate mogul is trailing Hillary Clinton as the presidential race hurtles toward a close, but insists he still has a viable path to win the White House.
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| UpdatedRepublican presidential nominee Donald Trump threatens legal action against women who have accused him of sexual assault, vowing "every one of these liars will be sued" after the November election.
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| UpdatedOn the final day of interrogation for the big four banks, NAB reveals no senior executives were sacked over financial planning scandals while Westpac says the idea of a banking tribunal was discussed with the Prime Minister and Treasurer in April.
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| UpdatedUS presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton will today debate each other for the first time in the United States election campaign.
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The 2019 campaign for the NSW north coast seat of Cowper is off to an early start.
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| UpdatedFourteen new senators, including Pauline Hanson and Derryn Hinch, are spending the next few days learning their way around the halls of Parliament and the processes that go with them.
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Donald Trump does not like being controlled and, in a sign that he won't be, has taken new steps to stick with his signature style of tough talking populism, appointing a top executive from the conservative website Breitbart News as his campaign chief executive.
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| UpdatedFederal Liberal Party criticism of counter-terrorism expert and new Cowan MP Anne Aly was inappropriate and backfired during the Federal election campaign, West Australian Premier Colin Barnett concedes.
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WA Labor has used a parliamentary debate to demand an apology from the Premier and Prime Minister for what it described as a "cowardly attack" on the now-Member for Cowan, Anne Aly.
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| UpdatedFormer prime minister Tony Abbott spoke on election night predicting a Coalition government would return.
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| UpdatedAfter a turbulent campaign week that saw the Republican nominee for president lose support from within his own party, Donald Trump endorses fellow Republicans for re-election.
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| UpdatedFamily First senator Bob Day wins the tightly contested 12th South Australian seat in the Senate.
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| UpdatedWestern Australia's remaining two Senate seats are decided, with One Nation candidate Rod Culleton elected despite his eligibility remaining in doubt due to a criminal conviction.
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| UpdatedOne Nation is tipped to win the 11th West Australian senate seat, with final results of the count due on Monday morning.
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