Breakaway senator Cory Bernardi says he will pursue mergers with other conservative parties and seek more defections from the Liberal Party after Family First folded its operations into his nascent Australian Conservatives party.
Australia should be running an independent foreign policy within the US alliance structure, says Paul Keating.
Peter Dutton has suggested the trio intended to sexually assault a young boy.
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.
Republican Senator expected to meet PM in Australia within weeks.
The federal government has agreed to pay an undisclosed sum to a nine-year-old girl who was detained on Christmas Island.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Andrew Laming says a new verse should reflect Australians' larrikinism, resilience and sense of reward for effort.
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 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.
Papua New Guinea MP who called Peter Dutton 'ridiculous' was no longer technically an MP after last week's court ruling.
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.
"His comment that he knows more than we do is ridiculous," says local MP Ron Knight.
Australians soon to have nowhere to hide from their student debts, top tax man warns.
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.
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.
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.
Save articles for later.
Subscribe for unlimited access to news. Login to save articles.
Return to the homepage by clicking on the site logo.