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His Honour Paul Murray finds Malcolm Roberts is not an alien
Verdict on the heritage of One Nation's Malcom Roberts, by Paul Murray of pay TV, is in.
Verdict on the heritage of One Nation's Malcom Roberts, by Paul Murray of pay TV, is in.
Prepare for a shock. On July 1 electricity prices jumped 15 to 20 per cent.
Some of the census questions are next to useless.
Every scheme being considered would push prices higher.
Tuesday week, Morrison and Turnbull will no longer be as limited by concern about budget deficit.
What's this about a "locked box"?
"You can't legislate for morality," quipped Senator Arthur Sinodinos.
Human rights pioneer, who broke the news of Harold Holt's disappearance, retires after remarkable seven-decade career.
The Centrelink robo-debt debacle will dwarf that of the bungled census, for which the Prime Minister declared that heads would roll.
Malcolm Turnbull is a messiah who then crashed in the polls. But there's still time to recover.
Both sides of politics are taking aim at the 457 visa. Opposition Leader Bill Shorten vowed Labor would crack down on the temporary skilled migration scheme to ensure unemployed Australians can find work.
From leather-jacketed guest to constructive critic, the PM has all bases covered when it comes to the national broadcaster.
Suddenly, Trump is good for business.
Did you know our social security system is so open to rorting that it's possible for some people to get more from benefits than they'd earn if they took a job? And we wonder why we have problem with debt and deficit.
The Coalition's paid parental leave changes make it seem like the government is made up of men.
If the internet is awash in lies and fake news - we must stand up for facts in the political realm, wherever we are.
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Pauline Hanson's first speech as a senator is maddeningly thick with selective statistics, wild assertions and untested claims, but a handful of howlers stand out.
Limiting the amount anyone could contribute out of their own money into tax-advantaged super on top of employer contributions was never retrospective, but those who thought it was can relax. The government is imposing a limit by another means.
Political activism is not retweeting a petition about the live cattle trade while watching an episode of The Bachelor.
Bill Shorten presented himself as a champion of reform but how could he be taken seriously if he was seen to condone Sam Dastyari's bewildering stupidity?
A proposal designed to delay and divide is doing exactly that. And conservatives are loving it.
Mathias Cormann, when he offered up his "wibble wobble, jelly on a plate" line on Monday, surely had a hotter verse from that annoying nursery rhyme on the tip of his tongue.
A blatant act of collusion between the two biggest political parties in Australia will fall apart.
The new voting system was supposed to prevent senators being elected on very small percentages of the primary vote. So did Hercules Turnbull clean out the unrepresentative swill in the Augean stables? No.
David Leyonhjelm is a boorish, supercilious know-all with the empathy of a besser block. And that new Hansonite conspiracy theorist from Queensland? He's an absurdist fringe-dweller and fellow hate-speech apologist. It's wacky and wackier. Neither of these self-promoting misanthropes would have the first idea about entrenched discrimination. Yet both are experts.You may disagree with this harsh critique and probably think it unbecoming of a serious media outlet. But offensive to them, it is not. And that's the point.
Our biggest banks move fast. Either that, or they collude. At 2.37 pm on Tuesday within minutes of the Reserve Bank cutting its cash rate to an all-time low, the Commonwealth Bank announced a completely different way of responding. Instead of passing on some of all of the cut, it would only pass on half and hand some of the rest out to customers as higher term deposit rates.
In the green-marbled hall of the United Nations, the diplomats will know next to nothing about the dusty barnyard brawls of Australian politics.
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This is what Duncan Lewis, the head of ASIO, told Fairfax Media late last year about Islamist extremism's connection to the broader faith: "This is not about the religion other than the fact that it is being hijacked by ne'er-do-wells."
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