The Turnbull government is prepared to significantly water down its plan to increase university fees and slash the HECS repayment threshold in a bid to pass higher education savings through Parliament.
Australia's best-known Catholic politician, Tony Abbott, has defended the character of his long-standing friend, Cardinal George Pell.
Prime Minister and Cabinet public servants finally agree to new workplace deal.
Australia's neighbourhood faces a "substantially" increased threat from Islamic State with the current battle against militants in the southern Philippines serving as a sharp wake-up call, head of the US Pacific Command Admiral Harry Harris has warned.
A fresh round of Coalition infighting has broken out, with Defence Minister Marise Payne sharply rebuking Tony Abbott for suggesting Australia should consider buying nuclear-powered submarines.
Sufferers of a rare blood cell cancer will get cheap access to a new drug after an unprecedented move by the Turnbull government.
Greens senator Lee Rhiannon and her hardline supporters in NSW will resist a federal push to reform the party's rules, setting the stage for more bitter infighting in the divided party.
Australia should fundamentally rethink its submarine program and consider buying nuclear-powered boats, Tony Abbott says, to better arm the Royal Australian Navy at a time when regional rivals such as China and Russia are expanding their fleets.
Factional warfare in the Victorian Liberal Party has reignited after a senior official was accused of being involved in a Catholic schools campaign against the Turnbull government's Gonski 2.0 education funding reforms.
March of public service casualisation reversed. In one department at least.
Greens leader Richard Di Natale has insisted that the decision to suspend rogue NSW senator Lee Rhiannon from party room debates is not a penalty, but an attempt to improve "a consensus-based decision-making process" within the party.
Government minister Christopher Pyne has apologised for his "unhelpful and damaging" same-sex marriage speech
Reversal of the Fair Work Commission's decision to reduce Sunday penalty rates in industries including the hospitality and retail sectors could lead to industrial "chaos" and reduce wages to a political "plaything" experts warn.
Former prime minister, John Howard, has described Australia's leadership of the so-called RAMSI mission to stabilise the Solomon Islands, which come to an end this week after 14 years, as one of Australia's and his government's greatest foreign policy achievements.
Senator Lee Rhiannon has been suspended from taking part in any contentious decisions in the Greens' party room until her NSW wing reforms.
Another public service agency lays down its arms.
The university sector has attacked the government for pushing through the biggest set of school funding reforms in a generation while slashing funding to their institutions and hiking student fees.
Attorney-General George Brandis has cleared the decks of the troublesome Administrative Appeals Tribunal, making more than 60 appointments including several people with Liberal Party links.
The Australian Taxation Office's high-profile area targeting high-wealth individuals that former deputy commissioner Michael Cranston headed will be a key focus in a wide-ranging review of the agency.
More than 200,000 of us forgot our first names.
Popularity of myGov sent department scrambling for extra $57 million as 11 million users send internet bills soaring.
Eva Zhuang is the face of a fast-changing Australia.
For the first time, Malcolm Turnbull has lashed out at "fake news" to describe stories he doesn't like. He should stop.
Australians born of Australian parents will soon be a minority.
Malcolm Turnbull has sought to kill off the latest backbench push for a free vote on same-sex marriage amid rising factional tensions.
A decision on the numbers of electorates in Australia is imminent.
Compared with the country described in the 1966 census we're more Asian, less Christian and more openly gay.
Labor will overrule the independent workplace umpire and legislate to fully restore Sunday penalty rates if it wins the next election.
Tony Abbott has outlined a sweeping series of policies he says the Coalition should adopt to restore its political fortunes and rebuild trust with conservative voters.
Melbourne is set to overtake Sydney as Australia's most populated city, for the first time in history the majority of Australians born overseas are from Asia not Europe and there has been a 39 per cent surge in the number of people declaring themselves in a same-sex relationship.
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