Employers and union officials now face up to ten years' jail and companies will be fined as much as $4.5 million if they give or receive secret payments designed to corrupt a union official.
Crossbenchers are threatening to derail the government's number one legislative priority before the budget.
Wacka Williams tends to inspire friendships across political divides. Loyalty, too.
Three specialist beehives are being installed in Canberra as part of efforts to boost bee populations in Australia.
Blunder has hit exposed the mobile phone number of hundreds of federal politicians, their staffers and even former prime ministers.
Australia's starkly sex-segregated workforce will remain that way for at least another decade, as young men and women defy expectations and increasingly self-select into traditionally gendered fields of study.
Paul Keating has dramatically entered the debate over allowing first home buyers access to their superannuation accounts.
Malcolm Turnbull's plan could set Australia on a path to 100 per cent renewable electricity generation - potentially by 2030
Migrants are being warned that "practices and behaviours that undermine" Australian values and sense of "fair go" have no place in Australia, in a new government multicultural statement to be released today.Â
Parliament has returned for a final sitting fortnight before the make or break May budget.
Indigenous Australians have rejected a referendum that offers only minimal recognition in the constitution, insisting they will walk away unless more meaningful change is offered.
Scott Morrison is planning to push the so-called "Google Tax" through Parliament.
Voters in some of the most conservative seats in Australia overwhelmingly support legalising same-sex marriage in 2017, according to a decisive new poll of a dozen Coalition seats.
Francisco Guterres, who is favoured by key powerbroker Xanana Gusmao, told Fairfax Media there are now "better prospects" for an agreement on sea borders.
George Brandis fought a three-year legal battle to keep his ministerial diary secret, costing taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars. Now, under threat of contempt-of-court proceedings he has finally released it.
Turnbull's twitter tirade on pensions.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has launched a Donald Trump-like Twitter tirade in a response to a report that the government will scrap concession cards and welfare payments in the May budget, saying it's "false" and he "outright" rejects it.
Two cabinet ministers have backed Peter Dutton's attack on companies calling for action on same-sex marriage.
A 92-year-old war veteran and great-grandfather who has lived in Australia for 10 years is facing deportation back to Britain after being denied a visa and told he would be a financial burden on the health system.
Liberal MPs' plans to bring same-sex marriage to a head in the next fortnight of Parliament have hit a wall.
The shake-up will return $61 million to the Australia Council over four years, and shrink the Catalyst program to just $2 million.
Peter Dutton tells chief executives who wrote to the PM about gay marriage to 'stick to their knitting'.
As the Liberal and Labor bases crumble, the temptation is to chase the strays, writes Mark Kenny
Disgust and disappointment with major parties is approaching historic levels.
The "end is very near" for the Islamic State terror group in its Iraqi heartland of Mosul.
Each member of the ABC's audience has a gripe about the public broadcaster - including those who run it.
The Parliamentary Budget Office has costed a proposal that would kill stamp duty and replace it with land tax, saving home buyers up to $40,000, while delivering billions of dollars to fund schools and hospitals.
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has castigated Australia for inadequate progress on tax, Indigenous affairs and support for business in a report card to be presented to finance ministers from the group of 20 leading industrial nations in Germany on Saturday.
What if the biggest government announcement in electricity generation in years was both a great breakthrough and a distraction?
John Williams was diagnosed 12 months ago after experiencing difficulty with his left leg.
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