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Declaring that Australia is in the midst of an energy crisis, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has said he will call together the chief executives of east coast gas companies to address the threat to their customers.

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One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has admitted she was wrong to suggest parents subject their children to a non-existent test for allergies to vaccinations.

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Australia's original climate change-focused think-tank and lobby group will shut after it failed to replace the multi-million-dollar bequest it relied on.

Tax Office distances itself from Centrelink's robo-debt debacle

Boris Johnson tweets what Julie Bishop won't say.

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The implosion of One Nation's Western Australian branch days before the state's election is no real surprise. This is not just because we have seen this party self-immolate before, but because the tensions have been escalating throughout the campaign.

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New laws that would allow the Veterans Affairs Department to reveal personal information about veterans in the "public interest" will be subjected to a fresh privacy probe after a backlash by ex-services groups.

They were heralded just months ago as "the only people" Pauline Hanson could trust in Western Australia.

So much for axing the tax: a growing crisis in the electricity market has led to wholesale power prices more than doubling in a year, and rising to at least twice what they were under the controversial Labor-Greens carbon price.

Scientists have confirmed what anyone who lived through the past summer know to be true - climate change is driving hotter and longer summers that are becoming "the new normal", according to scientists, with worse to come unless tough action is taken.

The great bulk of Australia's largest listed companies are failing to disclose their exposures to climate change.

Eric isn't the only Abetz in politics. His brother, Peter, is a state MP but struggling to keep his once-safe seat.

The shared home ownership scheme being watched with interest by the federal government has put more than 100,0000 people into homes in the past decade.

A radical reorganisation of national security agencies, such as the creation of a US-style department of homeland security is not necessary because existing arrangements are working well, experts and former officials say.

Trade Minister Steve Ciobo has apologised for spruiking increased flights between Australia and Indonesia on the 10th anniversary of the fatal Garuda crash which claimed the lives of 21 people including five Australians.

Clive Palmer, once a larger figure on the Australian landscape, has been on a crash diet in his post-politics period, dropping 30 kilograms or so, which sent him dreaming and, yes, writing some pretty out-there poetry about food.

Indigenous agency wins some pay justice, but still lags behind majority-white departments

Why is it that a mother caring for her children produces no "measured" economic value, but the same mother hiring others to look after her children does?

One in five ABC managers will lose their jobs under a sweeping restructure announced by the ABC managing director.

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The State of the Environment report, the latest five-year government snapshot, makes for generally dismal reading.

"It is altering the structure and function of natural ecosystems, and affecting heritage, economic activity and human wellbeing."

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.

The loudest, clearest, proponents of a reduction in penalty rates take a different view about their own leisure time.

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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.