Malcolm Turnbull is under pressure to prove his gas market intervention has teeth.

Government says scheme will 'revolutionise' care of chronic conditions, but GPs aren't so sure.

Leading economists have expressed unease about a budget reporting change.

Health authorities struggle to contain an outbreak that is estimated to have affected up to 900 people on the island of 10,000.

Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce has dismissed the expertise of the respected Productivity Commission.

• ANALYSIS

PM had been sliding to this outcome all along, given no comfort by gas industry insouciance.

Tax Commissioner Chris Jordan will get another seven years at the head of the Australian Taxation Office, with the agency looking to hit more multinationals with tax bills amounting to $4 billion.

Labor has come out against the move for a super-sized homeland security ministry.

Wholesale gas prices should halve as a result of the intervention in the export market, Malcolm Turnbull has claimed.

The federal government has extended Chris Jordan's term as Commissioner of Taxation.

Labor leader Bill Shorten says the federal government is moving the budget goal posts because it has failed to get debt under control, lashing its plan to divide the federal budget into "good" and "bad" debt.

The UK is being urged to join the multilateral trade agreements being abandoned by US President Donald Trump.

Federal government to pay undisclosed sum to a girl who was detained on Christmas Island.

• ANALYSIS

Move is belated acknowledgement that, left alone, a market will not act in the national interest.

Malcolm Turnbull will promise cheaper gas by slapping tough new export restrictions on suppliers.

Breakaway senator invites other minor parties, former and existing colleagues to join his party.

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Peter Dutton has suggested the trio intended to sexually assault a young boy.

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Missile defence system needed as threat of a strike grows: former national security adviser.

Australia should be running an independent foreign policy within the US alliance structure, says Paul Keating.

Treasurer is preparing the ground for a big new spend on infrastructure in the May budget.

Debt collection agency denied visiting the home of a man who killed himself while receiving demands to repay money.

Companies write off interest payments for the borrowings of offshore subsidiaries, study claims.

Republican Senator expected to meet PM in Australia within weeks.

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.

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Australia in danger of falling 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