The Australian Medical Association says private health insurers should address low quality and sometimes "useless" products instead of attempting to use punitive tax hikes to push people into taking up their policies.
A woman once described as "the next Pauline Hanson" could snatch the another Senate seat for One Nation – restoring Pauline Hanson's bloc of four – if the High Court heeds the party's call to disqualify Jacqui Lambie's replacement.
The trucking giant has outlined a six-point plan to overhaul the industry with national safety rules.
Thousands of employees in the retail, media, mining, transport and rental industries will struggle to keep up with the cost of living after signing wage rise agreements that are set to fall below inflation in the next two years.
The Turnbull government has reacted angrily to the new Greens campaign to change the date of Australia Day, accusing leader Richard Di Natale of stoking division for the sake of "shameless attention seeking".
Australia has avoided recession but economic research by a progressive thinktank suggests the country's stubbornly low wages growth over recent years threatens to entrench wealth inequality.
The federal government is "far behind the curve" on cutting dangerous vehicle pollution and should scrap registration fees and other upfront costs for electric vehicles, a national body representing some of the world's biggest car makers says.
Donald Trump's head of Homeland Security has suggested that anyone who brands the US President a racist based on his immigration views must also say the same for Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
The Greens are planning a major new national campaign to change the date of Australia Day.
Australian Trucking Association calls for major overhaul after deaths in NSW soar 86 per cent in one year.
Federal Labor MP Michael Danby has refused to explain how and why he used Commonwealth limousines on personal holidays to Queensland.
The long list of casualties from the first year of the Trump presidency tells its own story.
The global electric car revolution is coming to Australia, Environment and Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg has declared.
Thirty per cent of rental properties would be freed up and bought by Australians who would have otherwise rented.
Malcolm Turnbull, Tony Abbott and Julia Gillard each recorded approval ratings lower than the US president.
So big was the spending splurge on iPhone X that it pushed up pre-Christmas sales by the most in five years.
More than a decade of political warring over climate policy failed to curb dangerous emissions growth.
The number of university leavers unhappily working part-time remains stubbornly high despite low overall unemployment.
Environment and Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg concedes Australia's greenhouse gas pollution continued to soar last year, confirming that more than a decade of climate policy bickering has failed to curb harmful emissions.
"I'm not, like any Australian, wanting to see a very small element of a community – in this case the African community – define the rest of the community."
The proposed ministry has come under scrutiny for the "unclear" benefit it would deliver Australians.
It's the easiest time to find a job since the mining boom.
On three of the six trips to Queensland, Melbourne MP Michael Danby conducted no official business at all.
Just one palliative medicine specialist is available for every 704 deaths each year.
We all lose something of value when our politics is coarsened by crude ugliness of thought and deed. And there is nothing cruder and uglier than stoking racial fear and hatred.
The first crop of legal gay weddings will take place around the country on Tuesday.
Prominent Liberal ministers have launched a stinging attack on NSW Young Liberals president Harry Stutchbury.
The opposition has seized on the documents to claim the government was "lying".
Twenty-six countries have so far imposed a tax on sugary drinks in a bid to address shocking obesity rates. Why won't Australia?
Former Australian ambassador to Washington said there is a sense that Donald Trump "is fundamentally out of control".