Our $6b-a-year asset needs us to speak up
The Great Barrier Reef is dying on our watch, and that's almost all we're doing.
Barnaby finally looks comfortable in his own skin - and his big job
Barnaby Joyce long teetered on the edge of being remembered as a clown.
Theresa May follows Donald Trump's laptop and tablet ban on flights from the Middle East
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Malcolm Turnbull stands to lose both ways on 18C changes
The case doesn't stack up and send a message that, in the words of George Brandis, people have a right to be bigots.
Gesture politics from the people who claim to be above it
Another moderate shibboleth associated with national unity has been slain. On Harmony Day. Priceless.
FBI director James Comey says no evidence of Trump Tower wiretap
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Easy targets: Why Turnbull picks on workers but not corporates
Why do politicians discount unions and pander to businesses that ignore the community?
Failure of political will
Australians are jaded of big announcements. We've heard too many, and seen too little action.
Why Indigenous Australia will reject a minimalist referendum question
If the politicians have cooked up a "done deal" for mere minimalism on constitutional recognition, Aboriginal people will say no. Substantive reform, or nothing at all. That was the clear message relayed at the Victorian dialogue in Melbourne this weekend. It is a message we, as convenors of the gathering, support 100 per cent.
Only a reckless government would raid super for housing
Is it any wonder people despair about the government's economic credentials?
Finally some poll relief for Malcolm Turnbull
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Trump has changed the rules of politics, even in Australia
As the Liberal and Labor bases crumble, the temptation is to chase the strays, writes Mark Kenny
Fragile on the fringe
The party will need to separate itself from Pauline Hanson if it wants to succeed.
Malcolm's power surge
When Malcolm Turnbull assumed the mantle of a nation-building prime minister this week, evoking the vision and courage of those who delivered Australia's biggest engineering project, he could have offered a silent prayer to his Liberal predecessors.
Turnbull prepares his final throw of the dice
The Prime Minister has crossed his Rubicon, without Caesar's armies but equally desperate.
Trump unveils plans to rip billions from aid, environment and UN
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Shorten needs union law breakers like a hole in the head
Just as dwindling unions and, by association, their parliamentary champions, were thrown a lifeline by the prospect of a WorkChoices-style campaign to protect weekend penalty rates, a union leader reminds voters what they hated about the old model of industrial relations: strikes, intimidation, and belligerent lawlessness.
Merging agencies is not simple
There are a series of problems that always crop up when departments and agencies integrate.
A graphic illustration of a political system in ruins
Australia's tortured and toxic debate on energy policy has entered its most destructive phase.
Bill Shorten's ACTU headache
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Four days a week? What are you trying to do to us, Doc?
Greens leader Richard Di Natale may not get the reaction he expects for his proposal of a four-day working week, writes Tony Wright.
Revamping parliamentary work
Virtual parliaments and job-sharing MPs are problematic ideas, but still possible.
Real Malcolm muscles up on gas
Perhaps voters are more awake to it after the bizarre "real Julia" declaration, but when a leader suddenly promises "leadership," it grates.
Turnbull to push for fracking to alleviate Australia's energy crisis
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Why not move public servants to Queanbeyan, Yass or Goulburn?
There is nothing inherently wrong with decentralisation, so long as politics are kept out of it.
SA's state-first energy plan overturns a decade of pointless power-play
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.
Scottish leader seeks new independence referendum
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The debrief: Hanson demands a 'please explain'
Pauline Hanson, her head shooting flames, backs her chief adviser, James Ashby, against a Perth wall.
Crash and burn in the west gives Turnbull a chance to change direction
There's a message here for the PM: cut the ideological clap-trap, and get the budget under control.
Liberals pressure Malcolm Turnbull against preference deals with One Nation in the wake of WA loss
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Campaign highlights - and lowlights
The hurly-burly of the 2016 election campaign, as seen through the eyes of Fairfax reporters and photographers.