• COMMENT
• 26 mins ago

Poor Girt. The most cutting - and possibly most accurate - comment that's been made about the old thing is that Australia is in danger of falling off to sleep while singing the words, which barely anyone knows anyway. That was the judgment of a former National Party senator from Queensland, Sandy MacDonald, who found himself bored and embarrassed as he listened to a military band struggling to give life to old Girt on the shores of Gallipoli on Anzac Day, 2001.

• 40 mins ago

Independent MP says Turnbull government is disrespecting public servants.

Cory Bernardi's breakaway conservative party will join forces with Family First but the incoming Senator for the soon-to-be-defunct party will not join the Liberal defector, depriving the Senator of a two-person voting bloc.

The lobby group representing property developers has unveiled a "ten point plan" to boost housing affordability in Australia's major cities, urging deregulation in the construction industry, low-deposit home loans and incentives for older home owners to downsize.

The leaders will meet to commemorate the anniversary of Battle of the Coral Sea

With two weeks until the federal budget, things don't look great for the public service.

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Andrew Laming says a new verse should reflect Australians' larrikinism, resilience and sense of reward for effort.

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Work for the dole has been an expensive "demonstrable failure" that does nothing to lessen the nation's unemployment burden, one of Australia's biggest charities has said.

Prime Minister flags an Australian military presence in the two countries for the foreseeable future.

Should the public be able to freely access the names of the people behind the ownership of assets and bank accounts?

Malcolm Turnbull made an unannounced Anzac Day-eve visit to serving Australian troops and leaders of both countries.

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Papua New Guinea MP who called Peter Dutton 'ridiculous' was no longer technically an MP after last week's court ruling.

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Private Patrick Thomas Pyne was among the 4000 Australians who landed at Anzac Cove as part of the covering force on April 25, 1915.

New Zealand Prime Minister Bill English has criticised the Turnbull government's newly unveiled citizenship changes.

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It mightn't seem obvious at first but there's a positive interpretation to North Korea's threatening Australia: it shows they're paying attention and they're feeling pressure.

State newspaper singles out deployment of 1250 marines to claim America is preparing for nuclear war.

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.

The Turnbull government has abandoned plans to slash millions of dollars in funding from community legal centres after coming under intense pressure from lawyers, Labor and the states.

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.

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Defence experts said Pyongyang could have the ability to strike Australia with an inter-continental ballistic missile within three years.

Peter Dutton is standing by his claims about what sparked a rampage on Manus Island, dismissing alternative accounts as "the Twitter version".

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The Turnbull government's changes to the skilled migration visa category face new hurdles in the Senate.