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Controversial Sydney University lecturer Tim Anderson used a series of Anzac Day social media posts to accuse Australian military personnel of committing murder in Syria.

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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says he sees no immediate need for Australia to develop a missile defence shield against threats such as North Korea, as US President Donald Trump warned of the possibility of "major, major" conflict with the rogue nation.

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Sydney house prices are set to suffer their first fall in 18 months, new figures show, in the wake of of strong action from regulators designed to curb the growth in investor loans.

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New Zealanders living in Australia have been assured a crackdown on citizenship requirements has not shifted the goalposts on the "pathway to citizenship" hammered out last year.

The former Liberal MP is seeking aggravated damages over a story published by the Benalla Ensign in the lead-up to last year's federal election.

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.

Three alleged Australian jihadists captured at gunpoint in Lebanon could be stripped of their citizenship, Defence Industry Minister Christopher Pyne said on Friday.

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.

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.

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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.

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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.