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North Korea's missile threat
North Korea's program to develop a nuclear-armed Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile is accelerating.
North Korea's program to develop a nuclear-armed Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile is accelerating.
Anthony Albanese was once a question time star - now Barnaby Joyce has taken to ridiculing his absence from the dispatch box.
One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts attempts to rattle the experts by mentioning a hoax study claiming âpenises cause climate changeâ.
Donald Trump may take the US out of the Paris carbon reduction agreement, but Malcolm Turnbull says Australia remains committed.
Following ASIO boss Duncan Lewis' controversial statement that there was "no evidence" of a link between refugees and terrorism, Immigration Minister Peter Dutton jumped to his defence.
Despite a man getting a device through security at Melbourne airport and threatening to blow up a Malaysia Airlines plane, security procedures worked, according to the Transport minister.
You would think Adani would have given up on Australia's biggest coal mine by now. Artist: Matt Davidson
In 2013, Bill Shorten supported an across-the-board increase in the medicare levy. So why doesn't he support the government's NDIS funding proposal?
"You couldn't have asked for a better director than James Comey", the FBI director sacked by President Trump, says AFP boss Andrew Colvin.
How is that relevant? A Labor senator has been challenged after asking DFAT officials about money Foreign Minister Julie Bishop spent on flowers, because she's a woman.
Communications minister Mitch Fifield wants the media reform bill to pass as is, including abolishing the reach rule, but will have trouble getting it through the Senate. Courtesy ABC RN.
Coal-fired power stations using new carbon capture and storage technology will be eligible to receive money from the Clean Energy Finance Corporation.
It's one of the rules of parliament's question time - questioners only get 30 seconds to pose their queries. Watch what happens when they run over.
Malcolm Turnbull heaps compliments on Indigenous MP Ken Wyatt, but the junior minister may face a fight to retain Liberal Party preselection.
Convicted child sex offenders will no longer be able to leave Australia or hold an Australian passport, under tough new laws to be introduced by the Foreign Minister.
The "major bank levy does not give any bank an excuse to increase costs for their customers," Treasurer Scott Morrison says as he introduces his bank levy bill to parliament.
A taskforce looked at a new funding model for public and private hospitals, but the Health Minister says it was just a discussion, not government policy.
The 2017 budget bank levy won't raise your interest rates, according to Treasury secretary John Fraser.
In the past three budgets the Treasury has forecast a lift in economic growth and has been disappointed. Not this time, says Treasury secretary John Fraser.
Another 30 Australian troops will be deployed to Afghanistan in a non combat role, to advise Afghan security forces.
Hundreds of Indigenous people from across the country are at Uluru to discuss whether they want to be recognised in the constitution
The budget lifts the government in the latest Fairfax-Ipsos poll, but Labor still leads, Mark Kenny explains.
The foreign aid budget is now less than half of what was once a bipartisan target. Fergus Hunter explains.
Mark Kenny argues the 2017 budget has recast Canberra politics, and not just for the government.
Australians have been deployed in Afghanistan since 2001, and that doesn't look like ending any time soon.
It's called pumped hydro and it could play a vital part in Australia's energy future.
James Massola has been talking with Treasurer Scott Morrison and reveals the philosophy - and some of the content - of budget 2017.
In a joint press conference with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, US Vice President Mike Pence says the Trump administration will honour a controversial refugee deal with Australia - even though it does not 'admire' the deal.
Fergus Hunter explains the impact of immigration on other major areas of government policy.
A Fairfax-Ipsos poll reveals a vast majority of voters, including coalition voters, support the existing wording of race-hate laws. Matthew Knott explains.
Buying a house is increasingly out of reach for young Australians - Eryk Bagshaw explains the options being considered.
Is power flowing Labor's way? - watch as government ebbs and flows between Labor and the Coalition in the years since world war two.
US foreign aid can't be used to support contraception or abortion - Stephanie Peatling says it may become a political issue in Australia.
Politicians are meant to declare their interests, but Adam Gartrell argues the system is only semi-transparent and lacks oversight.
As Malcolm Turnbull flounders in the polls, Peter Dutton is being mentioned as a possible leader.
A new report may force Malcolm Turnbull to chose between his party's left and right factions. James Massola explains.
The on-going turmoil in the right-wing of Australian politics favours Bill Shorten, says Mark Kenny.
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