Eliza Borrello reports for AM, The World Today and PM from Perth. Before this she spent five years as one of the ABC's federal political reporters in Canberra. Eliza has also worked in the press gallery in the Parliament of Western Australia. Her first job with the ABC was in the Broome bureau. She began her reporting career as a cadet at the Broome Advertiser.
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| UpdatedLiberal frontbencher Alan Tudge says the party is "confident" the leadership switch from Tony Abbott to Malcolm Turnbull will see his party hold marginal seats in Victoria and perhaps win some Labor.
Topics: federal-government, turnbull-malcolm, government-and-politics, australia, vic
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| UpdatedForeign Minister Julie Bishop defends her chief of staff's attendance at a meeting that plotted former prime minister Tony Abbott's downfall.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, federal-parliament, parliament, bishop-julie, liberals, australia
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| UpdatedAfter years of campaigning for an Australian head of state, Malcolm Turnbull meets Prince Charles — the man he once accused of "unashamed adultery".
Topics: royal-and-imperial-matters, human-interest, government-and-politics, federal-government, canberra-2600, australia, act
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| UpdatedThe Opposition agrees to scrap Family Tax Benefit B for families with two parents when their youngest child turns 13, but says it wants to protect single parents and grandparent carers.
Topics: tax, government-and-politics, alp, australia
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The Treasurer says he is keenly aware of the need to address the gap between the superannuation savings of men and women.
Topics: superannuation, women, scott-morrison, australia
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Opposition Leader Bill Shorten accuses the Prime Minister and Treasurer of being "soft on banks" amid a flurry of interest rate rises.
Topics: banking, federal-government, consumer-finance, australia
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| UpdatedForeign Minister Julie Bishop announces the next Thor and Alien movies will be produced in Australia, bringing the likes of Australian actor Chris Hemsworth and acclaimed director Ridley Scott to the country.
Topics: film, film-movies, arts-and-entertainment, australia
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| UpdatedFederal Liberal backbencher Eric Abetz says Warren Entsch's latest gay marriage proposal is unhelpful and will do nothing to help unify the party.
Topics: gays-and-lesbians, community-and-society, marriage, government-and-politics, australia
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| UpdatedFederal Opposition Leader Bill Shorten says he has reached a compromise to support the Chinese Free Trade Agreement after securing protections for workers.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, trade, international-aid-and-trade, business-economics-and-finance, australia
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| UpdatedThe Federal Government introduces revised legislation into Parliament designed to scale back Family Tax Benefit payments.
Topics: family, family-and-children, tax, federal-government, federal-parliament, australia
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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is about to make his first major economic policy announcement, unveiling the Government's response to the financial system inquiry.
Topics: federal-government, government-and-politics, turnbull-malcolm, banking, industry, business-economics-and-finance, australia
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| UpdatedLiberal MPs believe the party's federal director, Brian Loughnane, is set to resign in the wake of the recent leadership spill.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, australia
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| UpdatedPart of the Army's ageing Land Rover fleet will be replaced with new Hawkei light armoured vehicles built in Bendigo under a $1.3 billion deal announced today.
Topics: defence-forces, turnbull-malcolm, federal-government, army, bendigo-3550
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| UpdatedFederal Government frontbencher Stuart Robert says he gave as good as he got in a "blue" with Tony Abbott's former chief of staff Peta Credlin.
Topics: federal-elections, government-and-politics, federal-government, bill-shorten, abbott-tony, australia
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| UpdatedThere are more signs the Abbott government's plan to let universities set their own fees may be dumped under new Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's leadership.
Topics: education, university-and-further-education, federal-parliament, federal-government, government-and-politics, australia
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| UpdatedFederal Opposition Leader Bill Shorten is preparing to promote fresh faces onto his frontbench, as two shadow ministerial positions become vacant because of the impending retirement of Jan McLucas and Bernie Ripoll.
Topics: federal-parliament, parliament, government-and-politics, bill-shorten, australia
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| UpdatedFurious crossbench libertarian David Leyonhjelm threatens "war" in the Upper House after minister Mal Brough flags controversial plans to change the way senators are elected.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, federal-parliament, laws, australia
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| UpdatedAftedr becoming treasurer in 2013, a series of poorly chosen phrases and an unpopular budget saw Joe Hockey's hopes of one day becoming prime minister dashed.
Topics: hockey-joe, government-and-politics, federal-government, federal-parliament, parliament, abbott-tony, australia
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| UpdatedTony Abbott confirms Australia will extend its campaign of air strikes from Iraq into Syria, at the same time as announcing plans to "move quickly" to accept an extra 12,000 refugees affected by the conflict in both countries.
Topics: refugees, immigration, community-and-society, government-and-politics, federal-government, islam, christianity, unrest-conflict-and-war, abbott-tony, syrian-arab-republic, australia
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| UpdatedTony Abbott is set to announce a "generous" boost to the number of Syrian refugees today, while also authorising Australian jets to go into action against Islamic State targets in Syria.
Topics: refugees, immigration, community-and-society, government-and-politics, federal-government, islam, christianity, australia, syrian-arab-republic
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| UpdatedIndustry Minister Ian Macfarlane holds a meeting in Wollongong to discuss the 500 jobs hanging in the balance at BlueScope Steel's Port Kembla plant.
Topics: steel, industry, business-economics-and-finance, port-kembla-2505, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedImmigration Minister Peter Dutton signs papers ordering the deportation of Sydney bikie boss Sam Ibrahim on the grounds he has failed the Government's character test.
Topics: crime, federal-parliament, law-crime-and-justice, government-and-politics, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedPrime Minister Tony Abbott wants the Government's proposal to strip citizenship from dual nationals involved in terrorism to apply retrospectively.
Topics: laws, constitution, federal-parliament, federal-government, abbott-tony, australia
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| UpdatedParliament's intelligence and security committee is today expected to recommend changes to the Federal Government's proposed citizenship laws.
Topics: laws, constitution, federal-parliament, federal-government, australia
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| UpdatedTreasurer Joe Hockey says "there is no risk of a recession in Australia" despite the economy recording its lowest growth rate in two years.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, economic-trends, government-and-politics, australia