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Labor and independent senators are facing renewed calls to back reforms to media ownership laws after Channel Ten fell into voluntary administration on Wednesday.

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A frustrated Malcolm Turnbull has taken an apparent swipe at his predecessor, Tony Abbott, for reducing climate policy debate to "glib" slogans.

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"To take this money away from those of us who are least able to afford increasing energy prices is just plain wrong."

The Australian government has agreed to compensate 1900 asylum seekers currently or formerly held at the Manus Island detention centre, in what may be Australia's largest ever human rights-related settlement.

Senior Turnbull government ministers have mobilised in the wake of Tuesday night's heated meeting.

The public service gender pay gap has been revealed for the first time.

A group of backbench MPs led by Tony Abbott confronted Malcolm Turnbull over the proposed Clean Energy Target in a special party room meeting.

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Gonski Review panel member Kathryn Greiner says it would be a "disaster" if the Senate voted down the Turnbull government's new school funding model, making her the second panellist in two days to throw their support behind the changes.

The Turnbull government will break through the country's former debt ceiling this week, breaching the $500 billion mark while doubling the national credit card debt it inherited from Labor.

The State Director of the Western Australian division of the Liberal party Andrew Cox has quit after presiding over the loss of the state government earlier this year.

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Labor is reeling after an adviser resigned amid revelations that the party bankrolled its 2016 federal election campaign with the help of up to $140,000 in donations from gold dealers linked to a multimillion-dollar tax scam.

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Growing economic inequality should be formally monitored by the nation's prime economic modelling and review body.

Pauline Hanson will be forced to pay legal costs after abandoning her court bid to stop the ABC airing further secret recordings of party meetings.

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Tony Abbott has already come from nowhere to replace Malcolm Turnbull as leader once as the Liberal Party convulsed over Labor's progressive climate policy in 2009.

Judges has hit back at several Turnbull government frontbenchers, warning they have come "dangerously close" to contempt of court after they accused the Victorian courts of being too soft on terror offenders.

Terminally ill patients will get faster access to medical marijuana after the Greens teamed up with One Nation to deliver a shock Senate vote to kill off access and importation restrictions.

Australia's next generation stealth fighter jets have been beset with yet more problems, with the US Air Force grounding a fleet of F-35s after the aircraft started starving their pilots of oxygen.

Diggers will be offered a 6 per cent pay increase over three years with no loss of conditions.

Labor says public servants are being used for political purposes at events in Coalition electorates.

New generation coal-fired power stations and even old ones retro-fitted with carbon capture and storage, would reap financial incentives.

The level of compensation paid out highlights failures in Australia's employment law system to keep wage theft in check.

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Ken Boston says it would be a "tragedy" for Australia if the Senate voted down the new school funding model.

Lawyers, including the country's peak law body, have condemned Immigration Minister Peter Dutton's latest citizenship crackdown as a power grab that threatens the independence of the judiciary.

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Most of us think high earners pay too little, corporations pay too little, and what we pay is about right.

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The go-betweens that link ‘Chinagate’ to Australia.

Senior Liberal and Labor figures have confirmed they are working to be "campaign ready" by July next year.

Legendary corruption fighter Tony Fitzgerald is challenging federal politicians to prove they truly are "honourable" members.

Immigration Minister Peter Dutton would be given stronger powers to override independent judicial decisions on citizenship applications under new laws to be introduced to Parliament in the next fortnight. 

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The consultation was designed to help define the "Australian values" on which prospective citizens will be quizzed.