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Fairfax Media understands the government is willing to commit to slashing TV gambling advertisements.

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Major bank warns government measures designed to address affordability could actually drive up prices.

A bitter slanging match has erupted on live TV.

Some colleagues still believe the Attorney-General will be heading for the exit.

Giant department covertly handed employee's medical file to psychiatrist for mental health verdict.

Dumped Lindsey MP Fiona Scott has called on Tony Abbott to quit politics, saying he is undermining his own legacy and damaging the Coalition.

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Environmentalists warns the project will damage India's image in Australia.

"If you think a law is unjust, use the democratic process to get it changed," the opposition leader said.

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"They have contracts with the owners not to vote," says governance expert.

No new dams would be built, but a fresh series of tunnels and power stations are planned.

The world is 33 months into its biggest recorded coral bleaching event with little sign of it ending, raising the prospect that coral mortality on the Great Barrier Reef will increase "significantly" from the quarter already lost in the past year, scientists say.

Donald Trump's ascension has exposed Australia's differences with the United States and should prompt Canberra to seek a more trusting relationship with Beijing, the Whitlam-era ambassador to China Stephen FitzGerald says.

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One in 10 Turnbull government MPs say nuclear power should be on the table as federal and state governments grapple with Australia's future energy needs.

The country's most powerful unionist says she has no problem with members breaking industrial laws, arguing the rule of law only needs to be upheld when the laws are justified.

Maverick Nationals MP George Christensen's ardour for a rebranded LNP has cooled, but he's warned One Nation's West Australian "speed bump" doesn't mean they won't still have impact.

West Australian MP Andrew Hastie has issued a stinging rebuke to the "progressive left" and the South Australian brewery involved in an internet video in which he discussed his views opposing gay marriage with a parliamentary colleague.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says national leadership is required to avert a looming gas crisis in Australia.

Labor MP Kate Ellis is pregnant with her second child, it was announced on Wednesday.

Decision signals clear fears even among close US allies about the superpower's commitment to Asia.

The ABC has demanded an explanation from Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party after its reporters were blocked from attending election night celebrations on Saturday, describing the move as an attack on independent media.

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Japan is collecting more tax revenue from Australian liquefied natural gas than the Turnbull government

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will confront some of the nation's biggest gas companies on Wednesday and ask the energy giants to supply gas locally to ease household cost pressures and avoid future blackouts.

Greens leader Richard Di Natale believes many Australians would be better off with a four day working week or a six hour working day even if it meant less money. This would allow people to spend more time on the things that make life worth living, such as family, sport, and volunteering.

The sacking of her school teacher among thousands of others was the first sign that Sally McManus' calling would be in the union movement.

Criticism of voting process "groundless mischief making'' says top tax man.

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Forced to act by catastrophic blackouts eliciting little more than ridicule from the federal sphere, the South Australian Labor premier has cast off the threadbare fabric of Australia's patchy national energy nework.

A new gas power plant is the cornerstone of SA's $550 million plan to provide energy security and avoid a repeat of damaging blackouts that struck last year.

Having campaigned successfully against same-sex marriage, the Australian Christian Lobby is turning its attention to the foreign aid budget.

New evidence shows 'Claire' was wrongly blamed for coming up with the widely ridiculed line.