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Prime Minister declares he will 'bring the school funding wars to an end' in stunning policy turnaround.

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Government briefing documents acknowledge it will spend $22 billion less on schools than Labor promised.

• ANALYSIS
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Unquestionably, this is a moment. Labor had visited a withering four-year blitzkrieg on the Coalition, pounding its dumb refusal to adopt David Gonski's model for needs-based schools funding.

Minister said 'average' waiting time to talk to Centrelink was 12 minutes. It was actually 27.

Which schools will benefit? Which will lose out? Why is David Gonski back?

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Cabinet has signed off on a new funding deal for the nation's schools.

The Turnbull government is also calling on Labor senator Sam Dastyari to apologise for "threatening" the electoral commissioner.

University leaders have lashed out at the Turnbull government's proposed cuts to higher education funding.

Australia's student newspapers have been denied access to the lock-up event for the 2017 federal budget, which will lay out fee hikes for university students and a multi-billion dollar funding cut for the higher education sector.

Group shuns gender theory, equality or even "acceptance" in favour of a more benign demand: tolerance.

Pentagon officials say Australia's biosecurity requirements "are a risk to the Marine Corps units' capability".

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson says a plane flown by her controversial chief of staff James Ashby for campaign events was personally funded by a property developer supportive of One Nation but claims the electoral commission "hasn't got any issue with the arrangement."

• EXCLUSIVE

Nick McKim has branded the decision extraordinary, disappointing and frustrating.

• EXCLUSIVE

Workers would lose a combined $14 billion in pay a year if all other industries join the retail and hospitality sectors in lowering weekend penalty rates.

The RAAF is promising to start reporting publicly on bombing raids, as the coalition reveals 352 civilians have been killed since the start of airstrikes against IS.

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There is good and bad in the Turnbull government's measured university changes .

The package, designed to save the budget $2.8 billion, carries political risk for the Turnbull government.

Treasurer Scott Morrison has seized on a new report that shows house prices in Sydney and Melbourne are slowing to claim regulatory measures to easy Australia's housing affordability crisis are working.

Australian company directors are more positive than they've been in six years, but remain worried about inaction on housing affordability and tax reform ahead of the May federal budget.

Labor MP says the government's price tag of $28 million to move the APVMA from Canberra to Armidale is wrong.

All politics is local, at least according to the adage.

Matt Canavan will put his money where his mouth is after being contacted by Fairfax Media.

• EXCLUSIVE

Pain will be shared between universities and students under new reform package.

David Brown oversaw a departmental relocation. He's got a warning for the Nationals.

The budget will make it easier to complain about banks

The budget outlook will improve and then get worse, weighed down by spending says Deloitte Access Economcis

The mission is to 'make libertarianism sexy'. The men on the panel seemed to agree their cause suffered from an image problem.

Whatever chances the children had of coming back are now almost gone, says community leader.

• COMMENT

Every scheme being considered would push prices higher.