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One Nation might not be the political force in WA politics as first predicted and their resurgence appears to be on the skids only a week before the election, according to a new poll.

Human Services "difficult to work with and very, very defensive," says Shetler.

Tens of millions have their calls screened as Centrelink crisis deepens.

The recruitment video meant to attract new university graduates was roundly mocked on social media platforms.

Australia has turned up empty handed to a major international conference which has pledged more than a quarter of a billion of dollars for women affected by US President Donald Trump's global gag rule on abortions.

Outspoken backbencher George Christensen has fired an extraordinary broadside at senior government ministers.

Chinese firms large and small are at Australia's aviation megashow - a development being watched closely by security analysts.

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Coalition MPs are privately urging the leadership to find a solution or face the loss of seats.

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The brother of executed Bali nine drug smuggler Andrew Chan says the Turnbull government could be putting more Australians at risk of the firing squad.

All senior CSIRO executives got bonuses in 2016.

Mining magnate and philanthropist Andrew Forrest says Australia's corporate bosses have been put on notice after the largest ever contract by a single company to promote Indigenous employment was signed in Canberra on Thursday.

The OECD has warned of a "rout" in Australian house prices leading to a new economic downturn, saying both prices and household debt have reached "unprecedented highs".

Labor's human services spokeswoman Linda Burney has referred Human Services Minister Alan Tudge to the Australian Federal Police over allegations he broke the law by releasing the personal information of a Centrelink recipient to the media.

Liberal party stalwarts Michael Kroger and Peter Reith will go head to head to contest the job of party state president, a rivalry that threatens to destabilise the Victorian branch ahead of next year's state election.

Giant Department of Human Services and Australian Taxation Office in Barnaby Joyce's sights.

Human Services Minister Alan Tudge is getting regular updates from his department on welfare recipients who are "criticising or unhappy with the system", a senate estimates committee has been told.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has refused to say whether he supports the Fair Work Commission's decision to cut penalty rates for hundreds of thousands of Australian workers, instead backing the independence of the body and indicating the government backs a transition that softens the blow for workers.

"They are camping out at McDonalds."

The PM said he had interstate business to attend this weekend but remained a "strong supporter" of Mardi Gras.

"Doing a job like this, you're in the inner-circle where it's like a different world altogether."

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Eric Abetz has called for workers' existing rates to be protected.

Australia's top economic bureaucrat has begged the government not to spend the coming windfall from soaring coal and iron ore prices, saying if it did it would repeat the mistakes of prime minister John Howard and treasurer Peter Costello in the early 2000s.

Welfare crackdown on serious criminals to be de-funded while 'robo-debt' effort rolls on.

The Australian Taxation Office believes it may have finally stopped a GST rort involving the gold industry that has now cost more than $700 million in lost tax and revenue.

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Former PM says a new foreign policy presents "a valuable opportunity" for a fundamental rethink.

The awkwardly-scripted and woodenly-acted ad has been slammed as cringeworthy, atrocious and 'truly terrible'.

Australia's electronic spy agency was forced to rely on diesel backup generators.

Australia has avoided a second consecutive quarter of negative economic growth, rising by 1.1 per cent in the December quarter and beating market expectations.

Corporate Australia may have lost the debate on tax reform, says Australian Institute of Company Directors chairwoman Elizabeth Proust.