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Senate backs commission of inquiry into banks
The Senate has voted to set up a powerful commission of inquiry into Australia's big banks, in a win for Labor, the Greens and the crossbench.
The Senate has voted to set up a powerful commission of inquiry into Australia's big banks, in a win for Labor, the Greens and the crossbench.
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Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce has warned Tony Abbott that he could be doing more to help the Turnbull government as the former prime minister leads a backbench charge against the Finkel energy recommendations.
Consultants' bills mount on giant submarines project.
The collapse of Network Ten may be the dramatic shift that pushes the Senate cross bench in favour of the most significant changes to media laws in a generation.
Respected lawyer and president of the Australian Law Reform Commission, Rosalind Croucher, is tipped to replace Gillian Triggs in her controversial role as head of the Australian Human Rights Commission.
The Australian government will pay $70 million in compensation, plus about $20 million in costs, in a deal thought to be Australia's largest-ever human rights-related settlement.
Greens leader Richard DiNatale has slammed as "highly inappropriate" a move to inquire into foreign political donations and influence-buying within Australia's governing parties via the secretive Parliamentary Standing Committee on Intelligence and Security.
A key political fundraiser for former prime minister Tony Abbott has maintained contact with Chinese Communist Party-aligned businessman Huang Xiangmo, despite warnings from ASIO to Mr Abbott about the billionaire donor.
Turnbull ministers will face Supreme Court to explain why they shouldn't be charged with contempt.
The PM is under mounting pressure as pro-coal figures led by Tony Abbott lay out climate policy demands.
Labor and independent senators are facing renewed calls to back reforms to media ownership laws after Channel Ten fell into voluntary administration on Wednesday.
A frustrated Malcolm Turnbull has taken an apparent swipe at his predecessor, Tony Abbott, for reducing climate policy debate to "glib" slogans.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.