Josh Frydenberg refuses to guarantee gas prices will halve
Energy and Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg has refused to promise the Turnbull government's new export restrictions on gas will cut domestic prices by half.
Australian jihadists captured in Lebanon could be stripped of citizenship, Christopher Pyne says
Three alleged Australian jihadists captured at gunpoint in Lebanon could be stripped of their citizenship, Defence Industry Minister Christopher Pyne said on Friday.
Muslim MP falls victim to fake news over Anzac Day wreath
Australia's first female Muslim federal MP Anne Aly has fallen victim to fake news after an unsubstantiated story about her "refusal" to lay a wreath on Anzac Day appeared on a Facebook post.
PM's cheap gas claim questioned as industry pans export intervention
Malcolm Turnbull is under pressure to prove his gas market intervention has teeth.
PM pushes GP reforms, despite doctors' funding fears
Government says scheme will 'revolutionise' care of chronic conditions, but GPs aren't so sure.
Budget reporting change sparks debt spree concerns
Leading economists have expressed unease about a budget reporting change.
Dengue fever outbreak in Nauru hits 10 per cent of asylum seekers
Health authorities struggle to contain an outbreak that is estimated to have affected up to 900 people on the island of 10,000.
Barnaby Joyce dismisses Productivity Commission warning on decentralisation
Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce has dismissed the expertise of the respected Productivity Commission.
Gas companies find out politics affects markets too
PM had been sliding to this outcome all along, given no comfort by gas industry insouciance.
ATO boss to hit companies with $4b in tax bills post reappointment
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.
Homeland security proposal a Dutton 'power grab', says Labor
Labor has come out against the move for a super-sized homeland security ministry.
PM challenged on claim intervention will halve gas prices
Wholesale gas prices should halve as a result of the intervention in the export market, Malcolm Turnbull has claimed.
ATO commissioner Chris Jordan reappointed until 2024
The federal government has extended Chris Jordan's term as Commissioner of Taxation.
Bowen says Labor looking at similar 'good debt' change
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.
Britain urged to join NAFTA and TPP after Brexit
The UK is being urged to join the multilateral trade agreements being abandoned by US President Donald Trump.
Nine-year-old asylum seeker gets compo for Christmas Island suffering
Federal government to pay undisclosed sum to a girl who was detained on Christmas Island.
Why Turnbull has made an extraordinary intervention on gas prices
Move is belated acknowledgement that, left alone, a market will not act in the national interest.
PM intervenes in gas market to tackle surging prices
Malcolm Turnbull will promise cheaper gas by slapping tough new export restrictions on suppliers.
Bernardi looks for more mergers after Family First takeover
Breakaway senator invites other minor parties, former and existing colleagues to join his party.
'We didn't do anything wrong': refugees hit back at Peter Dutton
Peter Dutton has suggested the trio intended to sexually assault a young boy.
'Australia must build a missile defence shield'
Missile defence system needed as threat of a strike grows: former national security adviser.
'Glug, glug, glug': Paul Keating sounds warning over South China Sea
Australia should be running an independent foreign policy within the US alliance structure, says Paul Keating.
New budget rules allow Treasurer to boost spending on big projects
Treasurer is preparing the ground for a big new spend on infrastructure in the May budget.
Robo-debt collectors 'never visited homes', inquiry hears
Debt collection agency denied visiting the home of a man who killed himself while receiving demands to repay money.
Global gas giants use loophole to avoid tax on billions
Companies write off interest payments for the borrowings of offshore subsidiaries, study claims.
US Republican senator John McCain to visit Canberra and Sydney
Republican Senator expected to meet PM in Australia within weeks.
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
Australia in danger of falling to sleep while singing the words, which barely anyone knows anyway.
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.