A remarkable deal between the Coalition and the Greens has emerged as the most achievable and likely way for the Turnbull government to pass its new school funding model into law by next year.

ATO makes historic concession while signs of a truce emerge in Human Services' long war.

Unprecedented investment in wind and solar power puts Australia on track to meet its 2020 renewable energy target, the sector's regulator believes.

Fairfax Media has obtained the review of the crash near Goulburn involving Australian Defence Force Academy recruits.

The government has declined to publicly confirm the schools, but Fairfax Media has identified which will lose federal money.

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The PM has pulled off a surprising pirouette, wrong-footing his critics, and charting a course to middle-Australian households.

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

The policies outlined by Labor on Wednesday follow the government's package of measures.

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

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A Taiwanese delegation was ejected from an international meeting hosted by Australian foreign minister Julie Bishop in Perth at the behest of Chinese delegates.

The firebrand Queensland MP said he would make the most of his second chance at health.

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A remarkable but largely unheralded shift on the US alliance has taken place in the ranks of the Opposition

Yassmin Abdel-Magied knew what she was doing when she linked Anzac Day to Australia's treatment of Muslims in what were "pretty despicable" comments, says the Assistant Minister for Social Services and Multicultural Affairs Zed Seselja.

The Turnbull government is prepared to further intervene in the housing market, Treasurer Scott Morrison says, if the federal budget's housing package fails to calm rising house prices.

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

On first glance, it doesn't seem logical: triple the price of something, and more people will sign up.

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."

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

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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.

• ANALYSIS

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.