Politics

Documents obtained by the ABC reveal how unprepared census chiefs were before last year's website meltdown, which saw millions of Australians blocked from completing the online survey after a Distributed Denial of Service attack.

Tax office and department of human services representatives will be among those grilled today, when a Senate committee investigates the bungled robodebt recovery program.

The prestigious National Gallery of Victoria is rocked by a wage scandal with allegations emerging of under-payment of security guards and that some are being forced to work illegally for cash.

An organisation co-directed by Noel Pearson came close to losing its $24 million funding agreement for failing to deliver jobs to Aboriginal people in Cape York.

Data from NAPLAN tests will be available on the Government's My School website from today, and parents are being urged to track their child's and classmates' scores.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has praised Indonesian President Joko Widodo as an ally in the struggle against Islamist extremism.

A remote homelands school in the Northern Territory is using Indigenous ideas about wellbeing in its curriculum to improve student mental health.

Ticketmaster Resale and Viagogo are the subject of complaints lodged by Choice Magazine to the ACCC over misleading and deceptive conduct after the consumer advocate found some events were marked up by resellers as much as 374 per cent.

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The panel discusses Donald Trump’s revised travel ban, Sam Dastyari’s swipe at One Nation candidates & does Australia need a Department of Homeland Security?

Responding to ABC Managing Director Michelle Guthrie's announcement about staff cuts, the CPSU say they are concerned the broadcaster will not be able to maintain quality.

Indigenous Australians are rejecting the "elite", "politicians' model" for changing the constitution, according to a key member of the referendum council that has met with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people around the country.

There are calls to overhaul the ACT's planning system by some in the industry who believe it sparks unnecessary conflict between developers and the community and holds up progress.

The housing supply solution our leaders are advocating will only work if affordability is simply a problem of supply. In fact, Australia is almost a world leader in rates of new housing production.

Commonwealth Bank chief executive Ian Narev defends a decision not to interview customers as part of commissioned report that last week cleared its life insurance arm of "systemic" problems.

NBC Australasian correspondent Sarah James speaks with ABC News Breakfast about the Trump administration's new travel ban order.

A new report criticises the Federal Government's environment policy, saying it does not have a comprehensive national plan to protect Australia from threats including climate change, invasive pests, urban sprawl and coral bleaching.

A non-profit group working to reduce harm caused by alcohol hopes to renew a push for 3:00am last drinks in Canberra once the results of a new study on emergency ward visits are known.

The prospect that Australia and Indonesia would jointly patrol the South China Sea near Natuna Islands is slapped down by Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, who denies reports the Indonesian President had ever suggested it.

Federal Labor is backing the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's call for more power to limit airport price increases after a report shows passengers paid up to $1.6 billion too much for airport access over the past decade.

Peter Humphrey is a British corporate risk adviser who was arrested and held in a Shanghai detention centre in 2013. At the time he was conducting an investigation for pharmaceutical company Glaxo SmithKline.

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says comments made by Indonesian President Joko Widodo before his visit to Australia didn't relate to joint patrols, but rather greater cooperation to ensure freedom of navigation.

Health groups say they are "utterly appalled" by Senator Pauline Hanson's comments critical of Australia's vaccination program, and are demanding Ms Hanson retract them.

We've been here before ... the Victorian Government is cutting stamp duty for first time buyers to give them a leg up, but this has been tried there and elsewhere and it just doesn't work.

Victoria's move to abolish stamp duty for first home buyers purchasing a property valued below $600,000 will not work unless more homes are built, Treasurer Scott Morrison says

When it comes to tackling soaring house prices in Australia, one outspoken Liberal MP says his Coalition Government should take a "no guts, no glory" approach to policy.