Talks aimed at reviving the stalled Trans Pacific Partnership between Australia and ten other nations could add as much as $100 million to the cost of the Australia's Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.

The Turnbull government's hopes it can pass its landmark "super savers" scheme for first home buyers this year appear all but dashed.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull could recall Parliament just days before Christmas to deal with any citizenship issues that arise from his new disclosure regime.

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Direct negotiations between the Prime Minister and the alternative prime minister are relatively rare.

Fresh doubts have been cast over Labor's claims to the strength of it citizenship verification procedures

Peter Dutton labelled claims that refugees and asylum seekers feared for their safety "nonsense".

Sky News might have sacked former Labor leader Mark Latham in March, but he still appears online thanks to a Canadian online media venture that has been at the centre of controversy involving the so-called "alt-right."

The federal opposition has called on Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to drop the "protection racket" and refer Liberal MP John Alexander to the High Court.

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Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten will meet on Wednesday to nut out a solution to the dual citizenship "circus" but how willing are they really?

The number of people who have returned their marriage postal survey has reached 12.6 million or 78.5 per cent of those entitled to vote.

Papua New Guinea's Supreme Court has rejected an application to restore operations at the now-decommissioned Manus Island processing centre, further increasing pressure on the almost 600 men who have been refusing to relocate to three new "transit centres".

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If John Alexander had been a British citizen when Australia's constitution was adopted in 1901, his position as an Australian parliamentarian would surely have been perfectly safe.

Experts have also challenged the backbencher's claim that his father had 40 years in which to renounce.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has conceded there could be "consequences" for his wafer-thin hold on government if a series of Coalition members of the House of Representatives were found to be ineligible because of their dual citizenship.

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Fairfax Media can reveal the former tennis champion's father was born in the UK and is likely to have conferred citizenship by descent to his son.

Cabinet minister Josh Frydenberg has hit out at a fresh report claiming his mother, who fled regime-sponsored killing of the Jews after the second world war, was not stateless when she arrived in Australia.

Malcolm Turnbull has dramatically reversed his trenchant opposition to any parliament-wide appraisal of MPs citizenship entitlements.

Ex-Macquarie banker Oliver Yates has unleashed on his party's "immoral" climate change policies.

Almost 1000 academics, civil society groups, lawyers and charities have condemned the Turnbull government's rejection of a constitutionally-enshrined Indigenous "Voice to Parliament", expressing concern about the "devastatingly negative effects" of governments continually imposing their will on people.

Australia is stepping up its role in tightening the net around North Korea.

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The Paradise Papers investigation is yet another example of how thanks to offshore law firms like Appleby, the rich and powerful can take advantage of secrecy.

The first 'life table' gave newborn non-Aboriginal Australians just 45.6 years.

Prime Minister urged ''to take a firm global stand against weaponising artificial intelligence''.

All federal politicians will be required to publicly detail their citizenship history and status under new Turnbull government transparency measures.

Papua New Guinea Immigration Minister Petrus Thomas says it's no longer possible to restore services to the Manus Island detention centre, urging its inhabitants to leave.

The Australian publics distrust of political donations means federal election campaigns worth up to $60 million will soon be fully funded by taxpayers, a senate inquiry has heard.

Former prime minister Tony Abbott has predicted more MPs will be implicated in Parliament's ongoing citizenship fiasco, which has already eliminated six federal politicians and seen the major parties launch internal audits to weed out any others.

The citizenship saga continues to batter the government, with another minister forced to deny his eligibility is under a cloud, a backbench MP openly questioning Malcolm Turnbull's leadership and the Coalition partners preparing to do battle over the Senate presidency.

A conservative Coalition MP has broken ranks to suggest the government should consider New Zealand's offer to take in some of the refugees languishing on Manus Island.