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.
A push to weaken Australia's race hate laws has ignited tensions inside the government despite the changes having little chance of passing Parliament.
Roman Quaedvlieg's ambition to be NSW Police commissioner could leave Border Force with big shoes to fill.
He blasted Barack Obama as a "son of a whore", unleashed at a United Nations envoy as a "son of a bitch" and now a fire-laced insult targeting Australia's Julie Bishop looks certain to be next.
Bob Katter still appears to be one vote short of the numbers needed.
Blunder has exposed the mobile phone number of hundreds of federal politicians, their staffers and even former prime ministers.
"Usual suspects" to make way for smaller players bidding for slice of the public service's $9 billion IT spend.
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.
Parliament has returned for a final sitting fortnight before the make or break May budget.
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.
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
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.
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