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Treasurer Scott Morrison will discuss the affordable housing proposal with his state and territory counterparts.

Morrison considers new way to put millions into housing

EXCLUSIVE
James Massola

Shadow Minister for Early Childhood Education and Development Kate Ellis will quit the front bench

Politics as we know it should change

COMMENT
Stephanie Peatling

China's missile destroyer Haikou, which took part in the exercises, in 2014.

Chinese naval ships close to Australia? 'Get used to it'

David Wroe

Turnbull has been a strong voice of national cohesion, as any Australian leader should be.

Deal to ban foreign political donations breaks down

The Honorable Malcolm Turnbull MP, Prime Minister speaking at the Australian Financial Review Business Summit, Hilton ...

PM calls energy crisis talks amid gas shortage blackout warnings

The sector unanimously criticised the changes at a Senate committee hearing in Parliament on Thursday.

'We won't rob Peter': childcare industry rejects cash

Labor MPs Kate Ellis and Anthony Albanese during the ALP National Conference at the Melbourne Convention Centre on ...

Kate Ellis to quit frontbench, force Bill Shorten to reshuffle

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson campaigning in Mandurah, Western Australia, this week.

'I was wrong': Pauline Hanson apologises for vaccine claims

Michael Koziol

The public hearing into the government's proposed changes to social services legislation at Parliament House was told ...

Ex-students 'would struggle to feed themselves' under $1300 cut

Eryk Bagshaw

Minister Peter Dutton at Parliament House in Canberra on Thursday 2 March 2017. Photo: Andrew Meares

Dutton points to super-sized security departments in US, UK

Wholesale electricity prices are soaring.

Wholesale power prices have doubled since carbon tax was axed

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Kate Ellis: Mums can be politicians

Women in Politics

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Super department could help intelligence sharing

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I was wrong: Hanson

Federal Politics

Minister for Trade Steven Ciobo

Timeline for Australia-EU free trade deal extends as Europe eyes new realities

Nick Miller
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Pauline Hanson on the Hustings in Kalgoorlie on Thursday.

'I was wrong': Hanson apologises for vaccine allergy remarks

Michael Koziol

Reef map.

The chart that shows it's not just the Great Barrier Reef under threat

Peter Hannam

Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said the PNG request came as a surprise.

PNG wants direct budget aid from Australian taxpayers

Daniel Flitton

Solution? Tesla vice-president Lyndon Rive with the Powerwall 2.

Tesla says its batteries could fix Australia's energy problems in 100 days

Adam Morton

Police escort former prime minister John Howard away from angry union protesters.

Howard 'rescued by police' from angry union protest

Georgina Mitchell

Labor's Andrew Leigh says the federal government's debt recovery process is 'crude'.

Widening wealth gap a risk to investment, miners told

Mark Kenny

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull speaks to media on sidelines of at Indian Ocean Rim Association summit in ...

Turnbull warns Australia is in an 'energy crisis'

Nick O'Malley

ATO Deputy Commissioner Greg Williams appeared before a Senate Committee hearing into the Centrelink robot debt ...

Robo debt not our fault, says Tax office

Noel Towell

Britain's Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, Wednesday 8 ...

Boris Johnson refers to Israel's "illegal settlements" in stark contrast to Julie Bishop

Latika Bourke

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson campaigning in Mandurah, south of Perth.

Sackings and bitter infighting hit Pauline Hanson's One Nation WA race

ANALYSIS
Nick O'Malley, Nathan Hondros

Nigel Farage visited Donald Trump in New York after the 2016 election.

Trump ally Farage visits Assange, publisher of hacked DNC emails

Latika Bourke

Men cry after an attack on a military hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Militants disguised as medics kill more than 30 people in Kabul hospital

Latika Bourke

Whatever you think of her, Pauline Hanson is now a major part of our political history.

Whatever you think of her, Pauline Hanson needs to be understood

COMMENT
John Warhurst

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

WikiLeaks claims to expose CIA's ability to 'weaponise' smartphones, TVs and computers in new mass leak

Latika Bourke

The grant gives first home buyers a $20,000 leg-up until the end of June.

Politicians have worked hard to make houses so dear

COMMENT
Ross Gittins

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Do we need a security mega-department?

COMMENT
Clive Williams

ABC managing director Michelle Guthrie is planning a major overhaul of the broadcaster's management structures

After a rocky start, Michelle Guthrie finally asserts control

ANALYSIS
Matthew Knott

US Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly.

Donald Trump's revised travel ban omits Iraq but still doesn't please its critics

Latika Bourke

Tip of the hat: Malcolm Turnbull joined WA Premier Colin Barnett on Barrow Island in Western Australia last year.

Malcolm Turnbull's Pauline Hanson problem

ANALYSIS
Mark Kenny

Comey has been working to get the Justice Department to knock down Donald Trump's claim because there is no evidence to ...

Former National Intelligence director says no wiretap on Donald Trump as the White House calls for investigation into Trump's unsubstantiated claims

Latika Bourke

Illustration: Matt Davidson.

Canberra is full of political delusions, but Turnbull's is the biggest

COMMENT
Mark Kenny

Summonsed home: DFAT is trying to wrangle 113 Very Important Diplomats back to Australia.

$1.1m to fly diplomats home? Wouldn't cover a night at Monte Carlo

Tony Wright

"You did this to me, you said I would be right by Monday"

Parliament reduced to a Kyrgios-Tomic tennis match. Where's a bartender?

Tony Wright

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