The one-year anniversary of Malcolm Turnbull's election was overshadowed on Sunday by continuing in-fighting over policy interventions from former Prime Minister Tony Abbott including stoking dissent among conservative NSW Liberals.
The federal government has been accused of abandoning tax reform of the $200 billion gas export industry after it failed to consider replacing a regime that allowed some multinationals to never pay a cent in tax for the Australian resources they extract.
As most Queenslanders enjoyed their relaxing weekend, more than half a million workers endured their first day of penalty rate cuts, as the federal government's three-year rollout began.
The "lazy" and "self-indulgent" Liberal Party is facing an existential crisis after a horror week that exposed deep wounds from which it may never recover, the head of the influential Institute of Public Affairs think tank has warned.
A champion wrestler who has dispatched his rivals with ease and finesse, Amir Gholizadeh is ready, willing and able to represent his country. The only problem is he doesn't really have one.
The civil war inside the Greens is set to escalate with leaked internal emails raising questions about the power of "faceless" party officials to dictate how MPs vote.
Australia is one of the first countries to pursue a free trade agreement with the Pacific Alliance.
Business groups have welcomed the return of chief executives to the skilled occupations list.
Australia faces a "small but non-zero" chance of a recession in the next two years according to the BusinessDay expert forecasting panel.
Bill Shorten is ready for the Turnbull government to implode and has moved Labor to an election footing.
Tony Abbott and Lee Rhiannon say they're protecting the ideological purity of their respective parties. But are they the ideal rebel messengers?
Five years ago, Greens leader Bob Brown proudly declared he led "the most cohesive and happy party room" in federal Parliament. Locked in a power-sharing deal with Julia Gillard, the Greens were giddy after helping to pass the carbon and mining taxes into law.
At least 325 serving and former Australian Defence Force personnel committed suicide between 2001 and 2015, a major new report has found, shedding light on factors that could make certain veterans especially vulnerable to mental illness.
Australia's cyber intelligence agency will be given the power to launch offensive operations to shut down foreign criminal networks, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has announced.
Concetta Fierravanti-Wells reprimanded Mr Abbott after he released an alternative election manifesto.
One of the Turnbull government MPs pushing for the introduction of same-sex marriage will launch a new Liberal Party gay pride group that is by a top adviser to minister Christopher Pyne.
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.
​Australia and other Western nations risk fuelling global radicalisation by turning their backs on desperate refugees, Amnesty International's global chief has warned.
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.
A court case taking on Buckingham Palace could soon reveal the final, still unknown details about the 1975 dismissal.
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
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