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Students at Australia's most prestigious universities are less satisfied with their educational experience.

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The Turnbull government's powerful budget razor gang is set to consider a reform package for the $10 billion PBS.

The tax on an Australian family earning $82,000 a year has risen to the second highest rate in the developed world, figures from the OECD show.

Federal funding has been stripped from two of Australia's largest private colleges.

Australia's most prestigious university has become the centre of a pro-Assad academic movement.

Malcolm Turnbull has lauded the controversial Adani coal mine as a boon for Australia.

Councils in regional Labor-held seats are lining up to support the relocation of public servants from Canberra.

Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce says he was "surprised" by the party's youth wing's show of support for an emissions intensity scheme.

The former prime minister says there is nothing "sacrosanct" about Australia's immigration numbers.

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Powerful expenditure review committee discusses axing one of Abbott's first major policy achievements.

Investors are being shut out of the market with value of home loans written falling by 6 per cent.

RSL members will be forced to vote for a new state leadership without knowing the outcome of an investigation into recent financial scandals that have left some of the leadership candidates under a cloud.

Malcolm Turnbull has admitted a potentially lucrative free trade agreement with India is now on the backburner.

The death of John Clarke has devastated his friend and long-time collaborator Bryan Dawe.

The Young Nationals have split with the senior ranks of the party, voting to support the introduction of a carbon trading scheme.

Centrelink's demands on former welfare recipients targeted by its "robo-debt" program were neither "reasonable" nor 'fair", the Commonwealth Ombudsman has found.

Opposition Leader Bill Shorten is calling on the Turnbull government to bring forward $620 million in funding for local councils to act as a de-facto stimulus package to drive infrastructure investment and create new jobs.

Police forces will struggle to retain women while part-time workers are bullied, the Police Federation of Australia says.

Pauline Hanson has celebrated One Nation's 20th anniversary with an attack on the media.

Labor says APVMA move will cost much more than official estimates, vows to 'stop it in its tracks'.

The radio host has accused Scott Morrison of lying, being "boring" and "treating him like an idiot".

Treasurer Scott Morrison has indicated a tax on empty housing stock could be in the May budget, along with plans to encourage elderly Australians to downsize their homes.

Politicians have reacted with sorrow to the death of a man who so mercilessly pilloried them.

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.

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says the government's position on the future of Syria's Assad regime has not changed.

Hundreds of the Prime Minister's public servants could be moved from Canberra to Australia's red centre, under a plan proposed by Regional Development Australia.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will fly into India on Monday and look to capitalise on Australia's fastest growing education market that has only now recovered from the damage inflicted by a series of racial attacks.

• ANALYSIS

They make headlines, divide communities and define elections. And they are all connected. The thread that links them is arguably the most important, and most sensitive, factor in Australian politics.

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The Turnbull government has sought to allay fears it will cut taxpayer-subsidised sick leave for living organ donors from the federal budget.