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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says "enough is enough" on the ideological debates over climate change.

Turnbull feels climate heat as Abbott steps up demands

James Massola

Senator Richard DiNatale is seeking access to intelligence committee hearings.

Greens ratchet up pressure on major parties for corruption probe

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Mark Kenny

Immigration Minister Peter Dutton took aim at Slater and Gordon over the class action.

'No admissions', Dutton insists, after $90m Manus settlement

Michael Koziol

Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has blamed Labor for the payout.

Despite what Dutton says, the Manus Island payout is momentous

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Michael Gordon

Social Services Minister Christian Porter.

PM's $1billion plan to scrap carbon tax compo dead on arrival

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Rosalind Croucher, head of the Australian Law Reform Commission, is tipped to replace Gillian Triggs.

Croucher tipped to replace Triggs as Human Rights boss

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Planet Earth as viewed from space.

Remember the ozone hole? Today's coal apologists don't

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Tony Wright

Senator Pauline Hanson has no special sympathy for Channel Ten.

Channel Ten collapse: senators urged to change media laws

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull wants an end to the ideological wars over climate change policy.

PM blasts 'glib' slogans, calls for national climate plan

James Massola

An aerial view of Manus Island in Papua New Guinea.

Government to compensate detainees in huge settlement

Michael Koziol

All Coalition MPs, from the newest backbenchers to the most senior ministers, do privately fear just this fate.

As it happened: the day in Canberra politics

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Politicians glam up

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Government's media reform agenda

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Detainees awarded millions

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Deputy PM Barnaby Joyce's announcement that he was moving the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority ...

Barnaby Joyce warns Tony Abbott could damage government

Fergus Hunter
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Senior Defence Department official Kim Gillis

The eight APS contractors that will cost $5.5m

Noel Towell
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It's hazy for Channel Ten as the network announces it is entering voluntary administration.

Media law changes on the cards after Ten's collapse

Eryk Bagshaw
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Huang Xiangmo with former prime minister Tony Abbott.

Abbott money man hit by China donations scandal

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Nick McKenzie, Chris Uhlmann, Richard Baker, Sean Nicholls

Federal ministers Michael Sukkar, Greg Hunt and Alan Tudge

Ministers face Court grilling after criticising judges

Josh Gordon

Female workers are at a disadvantage from the first rung of their career ladder, the study shows.

Female public servants paid 8.6 per cent less than men

Tom McIlroy

Andrew Cox presided over the WA Liberal Party's campaign which saw Colin Barnett, pictured, lose office in March.

'Purely personal': Director of WA Liberal Party quits

Latika Bourke

ALP candidate and donor Simon Zhou with controversial Chinese political donor Huang Xiangmo.

ALP reels after resignation and calls for China donations inquiry

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Nick McKenzie, Chris Vedelago, Sean Nicholls, Richard Baker

Labor senator Jenny McAllister says the widening gulf between rich and poor in most countries is "the challenge of our ...

Income inequality, the new handbrake on growth

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Mark Kenny

Martin Pakula.

Judges hit back at Turnbull government

Ebony Bowden

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull during question time at Parliament House on Tuesday.

The endangered elephant in the energy room

COMMENT
Judith Ireland

Bill Shorten and Malcolm Turnbull favour a ban on foreign political donations - why did it take a media scandal for them ...

The creeping sickness taking over our politics

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John Warhurst

A supplied image obtained Tuesday, April 26, 2016 of French submarine, Shortfin Barracuda, designed by the DCNS group. ...

Changing nature of war may undo us

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Nicholas Stuart

Encryption is a fancy computer-person word for scrambling your data until no one can understand what it says without a key.

Terrorists are using encryption. Our laws need to keep up with the technology

COMMENT
Jacinta Carroll

On most issues, Opposition Leader Bill Shorten is putting his electoral ambitions ahead of the nation's interest in good ...

Labor's professed preference for policy purity is phoney

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Ross Gittins

Government changes to school funding will soon come to the Senate for a vote.

Gonski 2.0: Your school funding questions answered

Matthew Knott

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May listens as the declaration at her constituency is made in the general election in ...

Theresa May and Malcolm Turnbull made the same miscalculation

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Mark Kenny

Malcolm Turnbull has moved to a new phase in his leadership.

Turnbull enters a new phase, but will anyone notice?

COMMENT
Peter Hartcher

Malcolm Turnbull is all too aware of the sceptical right-wing eyes burning a hole in his back.

Green-again Turnbull starts down a familiar path

ANALYSIS
Mark Kenny

Record-breaking economy? We're no world-beater

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Tim Colebatch

Theresa May stands next to candidate 'Lord Buckethead' and Elmo as she waits for the declaration at her constituency.

Australia should adopt this delightful but awful UK election tradition

Judith Ireland

Tax experts have warned there can be heightened US-Australia tax disputes if Donald Trump's tax plan passes US Congress.

Trump the barbarian who cares only for himself

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Crispin Hull

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