Federal funding has been stripped from two of Australia's largest private colleges after they came under scrutiny for alarmingly low completion rates.
The University of Sydney is standing by a controversial senior lecturer, Tim Anderson, who has dismissed the sarin gas attack in the Idlib Province as a "hoax" and called Syria's six-year civil war a "fiction" perpetrated by the US "to destroy an independent nation".
"Frankly, there is nothing sacrosanct about any particular immigration number"
The Turnbull government's powerful expenditure review committee has discussed axing one of Tony Abbott's first major policy achievements, the work-for-the-dole program.
Cartoons of the day: Ron Tandberg on rent assistance, company tax cuts and work for the dole.
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"We'll wait a long time to find another John Clarke. In fact, we never will."
Politicians of all stripes have been quick to pay tribute to the late and great John Clarke.
Immigration - it's not only contentious, it's central. Fergus Hunter explains.
A secret internal review of the Liberal Party's 2016 election performance has urged the party to recognise that campaigning must never stop and the party's conservative base needs to be respected.
Sydney shock jock Ray Hadley has spectacularly banned long-time guest Scott Morrison from his radio program after the Treasurer stood Hadley up for an interview with the ABC.
Hadley unloaded on Mr Morrison on Monday, accusing him of lying, being "boring" and "treating him like an idiot".
Hadley and Mr Morrison used to have such a jocular relationship that it became widely referred to as a "bromance".
Young people are being hit hardest by soaring house prices in Sydney and Melbourne
He's the dictator blamed by the US for the cruel death of babies in a barbaric chemical weapon attack. How did Bashar al-Assad go from doctor to mass killer?
