James Massola is chief political correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, based at Parliament House
The federal government appears to have been forced to released details of a high-level ministerial meeting with a top Chinese official, putting out the information three days after the meeting took place in Sydney and only once Chinese media published the communique from the meeting.
Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has stepped in to defend Tony Abbott, calling on his Liberal Party colleagues to show respect to the former prime minister.
Defence experts said Pyongyang could have the ability to strike Australia with an inter-continental ballistic missile within three years.
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has delivered a blistering rebuke to the North Korean regime.
Prime Minister Turnbull has cooled expectations of an affordable housing "centrepiece" in the budget.
She's 20 weeks' pregnant and her father is 15,000km away, battling cancer. The young couple's future is in limbo because of the changes.
Malcolm Turnbull issued a warning to voters in Warringah if they did not vote for Tony Abbott.
Foreign home buyers, vacant properties and self-managed super funds will be targeted in a pre-emptive strike.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has demanded Labor support a major-shake up of Australian's citizenship laws.
Former prime minister Tony Abbott has lashed the "sneaky, underhanded" leaking of polling data that suggested he was set to lose his seat of Warringah in the 2016 election - until Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull intervened.
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