Global gas giants use loophole to avoid tax on billions
Foreign-owned gas companies have legally avoided paying significant tax on billions in earnings from their Australian operations because of loopholes, a study has found.
US Republican senator John McCain to visit Canberra and Sydney
Republican Senator expected to meet PM in Australia within weeks.
Nine-year-old asylum seeker gets compo for Christmas Island suffering
The federal government has agreed to pay an undisclosed sum to a nine-year-old girl who was detained on Christmas Island.
MP quiet on $30,000 campaign contribution source, says staffer-turned-candidate
An electorate officer for federal LNP MP Stuart Robert has contradicted her boss in a hearing into whether disclosure law was broken during local government elections in Queensland in 2016.
Girt by derision: a short and tortured history of our national anthem
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.
Calls for inquiry on public service decentralisation
Independent MP says Turnbull government is disrespecting public servants.
Cory Bernardi's Australian Conservatives to merge with Family First
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.
Developer lobby urges more urban land, low-deposit loans
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.
Turnbull to meet Trump in New York next week
The leaders will meet to commemorate the anniversary of Battle of the Coral Sea
Budget could see 4500 more public service jobs cut
With two weeks until the federal budget, things don't look great for the public service.
Labor sounds alarm as interest rates fall despite crackdown
Most interest-only and investor loans from the big four banks are cheaper than a year ago despite a series of rate hikes and a regulator crackdown aimed at cooling the housing market.
Larrikin lyrics: MP calls for 'Australian values' verse in national anthem
Andrew Laming says a new verse should reflect Australians' larrikinism, resilience and sense of reward for effort.
Shipbuilder cuts first steel in promised rebirth of naval industry
It's one small step for an Australian shipbuilder, but a giant leap for the country's plans for a major defence industry.
Work for the dole a 'demonstrable failure, demonises the unemployed'
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.
Australian troops in Iraq, Afghanistan for long term: PM
Prime Minister flags an Australian military presence in the two countries for the foreseeable future.
Post Panama Papers, call to name and shame
Should the public be able to freely access the names of the people behind the ownership of assets and bank accounts?
Anzac Day 2017: Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull visits Australian troops in Iraq and Afghanistan
Malcolm Turnbull made an unannounced Anzac Day-eve visit to serving Australian troops and leaders of both countries.
PNG politician critical of Peter Dutton over Manus Island claims was dismissed as MP
Papua New Guinea MP who called Peter Dutton 'ridiculous' was no longer technically an MP after last week's court ruling.
From Shanghai to Sydney to Baghdad: Captain Feng's own Anzac journey
Yikang Feng was raised in Shanghai. His grandmother was on Mao Zedong's Long March, the famous military retreat by the communists that saved them from the ruling nationalists' army.
'Ridiculous': Peter Dutton contradicted for third time over Manus Island brawl explanation
"His comment that he knows more than we do is ridiculous," says local MP Ron Knight.
Taxman to go after young Australians overseas
Australians soon to have nowhere to hide from their student debts, top tax man warns.
On Anzac Day, Christopher Pyne remembers the great-uncle who never got the chance to live
Private Patrick Thomas Pyne was among the 4000 Australians who landed at Anzac Cove as part of the covering force on April 25, 1915.
NZ hits out at 'disappointing' citizenship changes
New Zealand Prime Minister Bill English has criticised the Turnbull government's newly unveiled citizenship changes.
Bureaucrats struggle with citizenship chaos
The Immigration Department is struggling to cope with a massive influx of inquiries about the government's changes to the citizenship test, with callers turned away or placed in lengthy queues.
North Korea is spraying Australia for speaking up, not because it's a logical target
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.
North Korea highlights 1250 US marines in Darwin to warn of nuclear war
State newspaper singles out deployment of 1250 marines to claim America is preparing for nuclear war.
'Highly unusual': Turnbull government releases China extradition statement after pressure
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.
Turnbull government to reverse community legal centre cuts
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.
'Show Tony some respect': Peter Dutton steps in to defend Tony Abbott
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.
Epic fail or huge win? The truth about One Nation
Although it was widely written off as an embarrassing failure, One Nation's campaign in the Western Australia election was a considerable victory in which the party positioned itself to seize long-term balance of power in the federal senate, according to a new analysis.