Special Minister of State Mathias Cormann explains the changes to the government's Senate voting reforms.
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It’s ON between Tony Abbott and Malcolm Turnbull – the political equivalent of nuclear war.
The government is making a major change to its legislation to reform the Senate voting system after a recommendation from a brief parliamentary inquiry.
Pat Dodson, the father of reconciliation, is set to become a Labor senator for Western Australia following Joe Bullock’s surprise announcement that he is quitting.
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The government wants to push the biggest overhaul of Australia’s media laws in a generation through parliament before the election.
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The Greens’ agreement to Senate voting changes has sparked a potential preselection battle between the party’s two South Australian senators.
When you are Malcolm Turnbull floundering in the heavy seas of tax reform, it is perhaps unfortunate that the 20th anniversary of the election of the Howard government has come around at this particular…
A former official of the Australian Electoral Commission, Michael Maley, has attacked the government’s planned reform of Senate voting as internally inconsistent.
Former minister Mal Brough, who this month quit the frontbench, has announced he will not contest the election.
The release of the defence white paper this week revealed plans to substantially increase Australia’s military spending over the next two decades.
The Turnbull government desperately needs a circuit breaker. It is in an appalling mess over tax policy and it can’t afford to wait until the budget to have it sorted out.
The Turnbull government’s defence white paper identifies key risks to Australia’s security environment in the next two decades.
Australia’s political system would be better off with more ordinary people and fewer career party politicians in the Senate. It would thus be more representative of ordinary Australians, not less.
Rather than redressing inequality, universities are exacerbating it. They need to take radical steps to turn this around and offer better education across the socio-economic spectrum.
The defence white paper will pledge an additional $29.9 billion in defence spending over the coming decade and support for businesses to innovate in areas such as cyber security and aeronautics.
Labor’s unconvincing performance on Senate voting reform reached new levels with the extraordinary speech by frontbencher Gary Gray in parliament on Wednesday. Labor this week has been going through contortions…
Liberal Democrat senator David Leyonhjelm says the government has been appallingly bad at negotiating with the crossbench.
Universities must redress, not reinforce, disadvantage by ensuring more students from lower socio-economic backgrounds have the chance to benefit form them.
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