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In a blood curdling rallying cry, the Islamic State has urged its followers to murder people from countries including Australia that are part of the international coalition ranged against it. The explicit…
Liberal senator Bill Heffernan has had the last laugh on the serious question of security at Australia’s Parliament. Earlier this year, security was slackened in a bid to save A$400,000. MPs’ staff and…
One can’t help but be disappointed that more progress hasn’t been made towards the referendum to recognise Australia’s indigenous people in the constitution. What is a very worthy idea that should have…
It was an unusual build up to Friday’s raising of the terrorism threat level in Australia from medium to high, though the action itself isn’t particularly surprising. After ASIO’s head David Irvine flagged…
During Julia Gillard’s evidence to the Royal Commission on union corruption, even Commissioner Dyson Heydon became impatient with the traversing of old ground. Trying to curb questions that had already…
This beauty contest is one with a difference – it’s a poll of the performance of the Abbott cabinet ministers a year into their jobs. Done by McNair Ingenuity Research, it found Foreign Minister Julie…
The sticky paper of scandal and the politics of money are embroiling players across the spectrum, with claims and revelations guaranteed to further disillusion already cynical voters. In the week that…
As questions are asked about whether a young Iranian who died of septicaemia received adequate treatment, Australia’s asylum seeker policy is under attack in the United Nations Human Rights Council. The…
Australia’s reach is not unlimited, Tony Abbott told parliament on Wednesday, “but we will do what we can to help our friends and to uphold the rule of law around the world”. As part of the reach it has…
With its first anniversary on Sunday, the Abbott government wants to trumpet achievements. Ministers have been asked to put forward what they’ve done in their portfolios for airing in question time this…