The royal commission into union corruption has been extended for a year and given wider terms of reference, after finding evidence of criminal conduct by union officials. Attorney-General George Brandis…
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Damning levels of mental illness and self harm are documented in the Human Rights Commission’s draft report on children in detention, which went to the government on Friday. The inquiry has concluded…
Cabinet has given the go-ahead for Australia’s Super Hornet fighter jets to strike ISIL targets in Iraq, as well as for its special forces to start working with the Iraqi military as soon as legal documents…
Update: Tony Abbott is effectively overruling Speaker Bronwyn Bishop and Senate president Stephen Parry’s decree that would see Muslim women with facial coverings confined to glass boxes when they observed…
The government tomorrow will introduce legislation to salvage a fraction of its social security budget savings but is shelving a raft of measures, including its attempt to make young people wait six months…
Australia’s early warning and refuelling aircraft will operate over Iraq from today in support of American and other Coalition planes fighting terrorist group ISIL, but the government has yet to give the…
The Abbott government will appoint an outside expert to report on the lessons to be learned from Labor’s home insulation scheme, as it also prepares options for compensating families and businesses. Delivering…
Former Speaker Peter Slipper has been given a two-year good behaviour bond, after being found guilty in July over the misuse of his parliamentary entitlements. Slipper, 64, is required to perform 300 hours…
An 18-year old man has been shot dead and two counter-terrorism police officers hospitalised with stab wounds after an incident last night in Melbourne’s south east. The dead man, from Narre Warren, was…
The government has accommodated Muslim leaders’ requests that sunset clauses be retained for key parts of its anti-terrorism legislation and will include a specific ban on the use of torture. Instead of…
Prime Minister Tony Abbott will make a statement to Parliament on Monday on national security developments at home and abroad, as the government prepares to introduce counter-terrorism legislation centred…
Greens leader Christine Milne has said her party is willing to negotiate with the government “to knock Direct Action into shape” – but only if it is not separated from the Renewable Energy Target. Milne…
Former treasurer Peter Costello has said the government should lay down its principles for tax reform ahead of setting up its tax review – and declared what they should be. With details of the planned…
The government will deploy a contingent including up to eight Super Hornets and special forces – involving 600 personnel in total – as part of the American-led coalition’s operations against ISIL (Islamic…
The retiring head of ASIO, David Irvine, has said Australia’s official terror threat level could be raised within days. The level is currently medium. But Irvine told the ABC tonight: “I would say that…
The not-for-profit sector is pessimistic about its performance and its future, with the Abbott government’s approach to funding and regulation blamed for the negative perceptions, according to a survey…
Senator John Madigan has quit the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) to sit as an independent, citing a “cancer of political intrigue” in the party. Madigan said the DLP’s “worst enemies are within its own…
The government today has finally secured the repeal of the mining tax, after agreeing to keep the schoolkids bonus and two measures for low income earners until after the 2016 election. As part of a deal…
Australia has increased its sanctions on Russia to match those of the European Union, after the move of troops into Ukraine. The government did not boost sanctions when the EU and the US recently did…
The deaths of four installers participating in the Rudd government’s home insulation program would not have occurred if the scheme had been properly designed and implemented, a royal commission has found…
The Nationals will debate calls for greater help for students at regional universities, changes to the rules governing takeovers and an end to the five cent coin when the party’s federal council meets…
A cost-benefit study of the NBN commissioned by the government has estimated the Coalition’s multi-technology model will deliver $16 billion more than Labor’s model in net economic and social benefits…
PUP leader Clive Palmer has made a grovelling apology to the Chinese for his extraordinary outburst on television, in which he referred to them as “bastards” and “mongrels”. In a letter to the Chinese…
Parliament resumes on Tuesday after the winter recess for a fortnight sitting that will test what progress ministers are making in getting crossbench support for various budget measures. As Coalition MPs…
The Australian Medical Association has released its alternative to the budget’s controversial $7 Medicare co-payment plan that would protect pensioners and children, but raise only $60 million in revenue…