The federal government will spend billions of dollars on Western Sydney in the years ahead, with a focus on local jobs, new roads and rail links and environmental planning as part of a  "city deal" to be finalised later this year.

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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is considering a proposal for a major restructuring of the federal government that would create a US-style Department of Homeland Security.

Home buyers would only have to pay for 75 per cent of their total house price under a plan praised by Scott Morrison.

The plan is the brainchild of Manly Sea Eagles co-owner and former Weight Watchers executive Scott Penn.

Two Turnbull government ministers have been caught out failing to properly declare their financial interests, contravening parliament rules.

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Malcolm Turnbull is not travelling west this week for the final gruelling days of the Western Australian state election, but his government's low standing and the taint of a resurgent Hansonism are playing their roles in the local contest.

An estimated 400 restaurants and cafés and hair and beauty salons will get a visit from the Tax Office this month.

Pauline Hanson must apologise and retract her "crazy" comments on vaccinations, a former federal health department head says.

Minister flatly rejects Parliamentary committee's peace plan.

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Centrelink spin-doctor takes the heat for the real bosses.

Malcolm Turnbull has slapped down Pauline Hanson for showering praise on Russian strongman Vladimir Putin and likening the federal government's child vaccination programs to a "dictatorship".

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Pauline Hanson doesn't like the government's 'no jab, no pay' child vaccination scheme because it's like a "dictatorship". But she quite likes Vladimir Putin who is by many measures an actual dictator.

Pauline Hanson has stood by her praise of Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying she admires him because he shows strength of leadership.

A new report says high drug prices paid by Australians could be lowered through changes to government policy, after $1.2 billion in potential savings to the health budget were lost in just the past four years.

Despite a late poll slump, scrappy organisation and the selection of "fruitcakes" as candidates, One Nation remains in a position to seize the balance of power in Western Australia's upper house.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says "masses of evidence" exists to support a reduction to some penalty rates by the Fair Work Commission, agreeing the move will lead to job creation.

Muslims want to impose Sharia law because they "hate Western society", Australia needs a "strong" leader like Vladimir Putin and the government must stop "blackmailing" parents into vaccinating their children.

Poor countries have contributed the least to human-induced climate change but are already being affected more than richer ones.

Treasurer Scott Morrison says the government is developing a package of reforms to address housing affordability.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has no plans to campaign in Western Australia before next Saturday's state election as Liberal premier Colin Barnett faces the fight of his political life to hold on to power.

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All eyes will be on the WA state election next Saturday to see how Labor polls.

Five years ago John Alexander had a revelation: Australia's housing market has gone insane.

Pauline Hanson's One Nation has emerged as the Turnbull government's most reliable voting partner in the Senate, defying early predictions that the upper house in this term of Parliament would be even more unmanagable than before.

The RAAF will have vastly superior data collection abilities compared with other military forces in Asia with the purchase of seven Triton drones – giving Australia the edge in electromagnetic-sphere warfare.

During four decades on the land, rarely has Guy Milson seen as season as good as this one. And neither has the rest of Australia.

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"Unless we get some additional resources into this area, we'll never be able to bring this under control."

Former Prime Minister John Howard personally identified with two factors that he says won Donald Trump the US Presidency.

Immigration Minister Peter Dutton called for greater powers to stop foreign fighters coming home.

"I sound like a wanker but I believe in this stuff".