Treasurer Scott Morrison has urged financial regulators to crackdown on investor loans, warning restrictions have "worn off," allowing investors to storm back into the market hurting housing affordability levels and promoting surging household debt.
The Turnbull government has hand-balled responsibility for protecting people facing big pay cuts on Sundays and public holidays to the Fair Work Commission, effectively guaranteeing Labor and the union movement will mount a ferocious industrial relations campaign all the way until the next election.
Defence Industry Minister Christopher Pyne has cited the uncertainty about Donald Trump's foreign policy as one reason why Australia needs to bolster its home-grown defence industry.
Attorney-General George Brandis has warned that the Islamic State group may scatter and form a "diaspora" caliphate around the world, including South-East Asia after its defeat in the Middle East.
A major Liberal party benefactor will continue to withhold hundreds of thousands of dollars to the cash-strapped party, with Michael Kroger set to remain president of the party.
Pauline Hanson has compared Islam to a disease Australians need to vaccinate themselves against, a comment described by the deputy prime minister as "bat poo crazy".
A China-Australia extradition treaty 10 years in the making looks set to be killed off in the Senate next week with Labor, the Greens and the crossbench expected to team up to stop ratification.
"It's very, very clear that we do not approve the changes," Gillian Triggs told the inquiry.
The Turnbull government is aiming to use the successful passage of its childcare reforms, which redistribute subsidies from wealthy to low-income families, as a springboard to overhaul the way schools are funded.
Local beef producers have won unfettered access to the giant Chinese domestic market for the first time, in a commercial breakthrough that gives Australia a unique level of entree denied to all other countries until now. But the resolution of Australia's beef over beef exports came with a gentle reminder to Canberra, and other regional neighbours, that China will not back down on the South China Sea and regards its outposts in international waters as its sovereign territory.
""Inciting hatred against any part of the Australian community is always dangerous," Malcolm Turnbull said.
"I get a travel allowance, others get penalty rates – it's part of the package."
New study from the University of Adelaide has found that after accounting for house prices, suburbs in Adelaide with shared home ownership schemes have 8 per cent higher levels of home ownership than near identical suburbs in NSW and Victoria
Calls for an extraordinary government intervention to keep the ailing Hazelwood coal power plant open have been rejected by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, who said its closure would not affect electricity security.
A leading national business group has called on Canberra and Victoria to consider an unprecedented "emergency intervention" to keep the Hazelwood coal power plant running.
In the last 12 months 82,800 Australians have moved to Victoria from interstate, around 500 carloads a week.
Two resignations from the board of the Climate Change Authority come with criticism of the Turnbull government.
The former minister has been called to appear as a witness at a Crime and Corruption Commission public hearing.
It wasn't the overdue bills Jacqui Lambie was thinking about as she delivered a speech that gripped Parliament.
"It was an attack on parliaments, freedom and democracy everywhere in the world," Malcolm Turnbull said.
Former senator is alleged to have threatened a Cairns magistrate in a letter last year requesting a court matter be adjourned.
The Tax Justice Network research found that while the largest losses occurred in rich economies such as the United States, lower-income countries were the biggest victims of profit shifting.
Figures suggest the prospective riches being dangled in front of farmers do not exist - at least not yet.
As the Turnbull government prepared to pass a clutch of welfare cuts late on Wednesday night, Tasmanian senator Jacqui Lambie rose to her feet, her eyes welling and her voice shaking with rage.
Industry Minister Arthur Sinodinos has likened denial of climate change to the anti-vaccination movement, saying that science and innovation are required to combat these views.
Liberal Party moderates are concerned a postal vote could work to the advantage of opponents of marriage equality.
"This is an assault on every democracy, every parliament, every free nation," Malcolm Turnbull said.
"I can't believe it. It's made my day. God bless him."
Barnaby Joyce has broken with cabinet solidarity to blast the Liberal Party.
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