Politics
Federal
Bill Shorten warned against backdown in stand-off over refugee medical bill
The independent MPs behind the push to move refugees off Nauru and Manus Island for medical treatment have demanded Labor hold the line.
- by David Wroe
Latest
Aged care
Confronting aged care inquiry likely to uncover ugly truths as PM boosts funding
The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety is expected to uncover some ugly truths when it starts on Monday.
- by Marnie Banger
Banking royal commission
Government 'won't rush banks response'
Defence Minister Christopher Pyne has dismissed Labor's call for Parliament to sit for an extra two weeks.
Opinion
Scott Morrison
The caretaker government where little care is being taken
No one in Morrison's government thinks they can win the election. Sometimes fatalism can be freeing
- by Jacqueline Maley
Global warming
Lonely, unfit and hooked on air-conditioning - is this the summer of the future?
Temperatures almost too hot for humans are no longer a doomsday prediction. Summer has changed, and so must we.
- by Nicole Hasham
Exclusive
Battle for Warringah
'In the fight of my life': Abbott takes aim at 'negative, cashed-up' independents
The former PM opens up about the "basics" of politics and says his challengers "don’t know what they're for".
- by Michael Koziol
Opinion
Negative gearing
Negative gearing changes will affect us all, mostly for the better
Despite all the talk about negatively geared nurses and property baron police officers, 90 per cent of taxpayers do not use negative gearing.
- by Danielle Wood
Federal budget
Federal government pledges $15 million for new home of women's footy
The federal government has pledged $15 million to turn Melbourne's Princes Park into the new home of women's football in Victoria.
- by Dana McCauley
Asylum seekers
'No middle ground': Morrison digs in on asylum seeker medivac bill
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has declared the government will not negotiate over a bill giving doctors more say in treating sick refugees, setting up a pre-election battle on border security if Labor votes for the legislation next week.
- by Dana McCauley
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