Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has said Donald Trump is "driving an economic nationalist agenda" in her strongest remarks yet, indicating Australia sees the new US President's policies as an economic threat.
A Turnbull government plan to ratify the China-Australia extradition treaty has collapsed, with mounting opposition from the Coalition backbench causing the government to withdraw the treaty from Parliament.
Myanmar's military chief has warned against UN intervention in his country, declaring more than one million Rohingya Muslims in western Rakhine state as "Bengali" interlopers.
Even government MPs say they are "deeply unimpressed" with the Immigration Department.
"This will be giving a free ticket to racism and telling the whole world we don't care about minorities".
Senior Tax Office officials have revealed they sought legal advice after hearing "bureaucratic whispers" George Brandis would attempt to shut the ATO out of the Bell Group litigation.
Two Australian children face being separated from their parents after the Turnbull government made final moves to deport the couple.
The Greens MP Adam Bandt has linked the fatal Cyclone Debbie raging across northern Queensland to a proposed new coal-fired power plant saying more people will suffer.
Malcolm Turnbull has refused to rule out further regulating electricity prices to get a better deal for consumers as energy retailers declared his new inquiry will "bust the myth" there is any price-gouging in the market.
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop and Justice Minister Michael Keenan have moved to quell a backbench revolt over a China-Australia extradition treaty.
The federal government could secure three crucial votes from the Nick Xenophon Team for its company tax cut plan, but only if it adopts a politically contentious emissions intensity scheme for the electricity sector.
Public service at risk of making the same old mistakes, says opposition.
Are you a 'staff substitute', 'contractor' or 'service provider'? Your job may depend on the answer.
Tax fights involving Amazon and Chevron will have major implications for other companies in long-running disputes.
The federal government has offered to open access to protected forests and review the status of an endangered native possum as part of an appeal to save Victoria's Heyfield timber mill from closing.
Australian combat aircraft were not involved in an airstrike against Islamic State militants that allegedly killed at least dozens of civilians in the Iraqi city of Mosul, Defence Minister Marise Payne has said.
Incoming ABC chairman Justin Milne says he has deep respect for Malcolm Turnbull but his longstanding friendship with the Prime Minister will have "zero impact" on his role at the public broadcaster.
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson is threatening to hold the government to ransom over its planned $50 billion corporate tax cut plan this week.
Minister claims government playing catch-up after years of neglect and under-spending on vital infrastructure.
Australia runs the risk of becoming the new Japan, "crippled by pension spending" unless it winds back the entitlements of a swelling aged population, a study says.
More voters back the Turnbull government's $50 billion plan to cut company taxes than oppose it, in findings the Coalition will seize on ahead of a decisive Senate vote this week.
The brutal murder of Iranian asylum seeker Reza Barati at the Manus Island detention camp has been dramatised in a new play staged in the Iranian capital Tehran.
Labor now holds a thumping 10 point lead over the Coalition in the two-party preferred vote.
Every years millions of Australian workers miss out being paid their superannuation by their bosses. A federal inquiry is looking into why and how to stop it.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has directed the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to conduct a major review of electricity retailers.
Cuts to Sunday penalty rates for low-paid workers could blow a $650 million hole in the federal government's budget bottom line, according to the Australian Institute.
The PM badly needs clean air and real traction or colleagues will return to discussing their alternative driver options.
Australia's top-selling new cars are using up to 60 per cent more fuel than advertised, according to a report that casts fresh doubt on the accuracy of the laboratory testing underpinning the federal government's vehicle emissions standards.
Bookmaker Tom Waterhouse is at the centre of a bitter dispute in the online gambling sector over how much ground the industry should give up to resuscitate its public image.
The Greens are pushing for a new public authority to take responsibility for Australia's beleaguered electricity system out of politicians' hands.
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