Fairfax Media is aware of several major investigations under way into the integrity of people or operations within agencies set to form part of new super-ministry.

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Bill Shorten says voters are "hungry for something more substantial than the current political fare".

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Judicial scandal that engulfed a coterie of powerful Australians to be reignited after 31 years.

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The impending release has sent universities scrambling to provide enough frontline services for students and to radically alter the culture of their campuses.

The intelligence watchdog's staff of just 17 people has "not kept pace" with its growing workload.

The Turnbull government has released draft management plans for the nation's marine parks that amount to an "unprecedented rollback" of protections, a coalition of 25 environmental groups say.

Foreign minister Julie Bishop has dismissed concerns about Donald Trump, saying there's nothing surprising about his policy of "America First".

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Billions of dollars of tax revenue is being lost due to wealthy Australians using family trusts.

Rising inequality is the single biggest threat to Australia's social cohesion and the economy, Bill Shorten says.

One of the world's largest defence companies is being urged to build a new fleet of combat vehicles in Victoria if its bid for the Australian army's most expensive acquisition contract in history succeeds.

The Greens could be at risk of losing a third senator to section 44 of the Constitution

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In an exclusive interview, the disability advocate reveals his personal history and political motivations.

Interest rate are going to rise, says Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.

The Greens have accused the government of misusing public funds through costly domestic and international travel.

'We have been caught up in the US process, they have a quota each year."

"The advice back then was that we didn't need the kind of massive bureaucratic change."

The Turnbull government has not yet announced who will succeed Downer as High Commissioner.

The Turnbull government has named investment banker and former ABC director Steven Skala as the new chair of its $10 billion green investment agency in a move welcomed by the renewable energy industry.

Australia's foreign spy agencies could gather intelligence on "classes" of Australians involved with terrorist organisations to help stop lone wolf attacks or help the military target terrorists, under recommendations from the high level intelligence review of the Turnbull government.

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Australia's superannuation system is systematically biased against women, a major study has found.

Of the group of 23 overseas born MPs, nine provided Fairfax Media with some form of documentation to support their claims.

Apple's top privacy executives have flown out to Australia twice in the past month to lobby the Turnbull government.

A senate inquiry has been warned of potentially tragic consequences from Australia's lax building laws.

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Peter Dutton has achieved what Scott Morrison could not.

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We're copying the battered, bandaged survivor of a hundred political fights and failures, not a gleaming modern governance machine.

Supporters of refugee-friendly policies are "a bunch of cockroaches" swarming over his former electorate, Liberal says.

The shock resignation of Greens senator Larissa Waters on Tuesday has triggered a wave of overseas born federal MPs scrambling to declare their Australian allegiance.

Richard Di Natale says two wrongly elected senators had "already paid a pretty high price".

Malcolm Turnbull's plan to create a home affairs ministry has met with mixed responses, with experts welcoming strengthened oversight of intelligence agencies but questioning how much improvement to national security the changes will yield.