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The government’s fast timetable for a same-sex marriage plebiscite seems to strengthen the prospect of an election being held sooner rather than later.
It has been a week of political contests, both within party lines and across them. Stephen Parker and Michelle Grattan take a look at the bitter rivalry between Malcolm Turnbull and Tony Abbott.
There are few markets that have easier entry and exit than those in the sharing economy.
Politics has its own purgatory, as Malcolm Turnbull and Tony Abbott might have reflected when they sat on the same table at the Howard government’s 20th anniversary dinner on Wednesday.
Special Minister of State Mathias Cormann explains the changes to the government's Senate voting reforms.
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.
On Monday, a scarifying account of Tony Abbott’s prime ministership appears in the bookshops. By journalist Niki Savva, The Road to Ruin: How Tony Abbott and Peta Credlin Destroyed Their Own Government…
The government wants to push the biggest overhaul of Australia’s media laws in a generation through parliament before the election.
The pathology sector in Australia is no longer a cottage industry. It is dominated by a handful of billion-dollar enterprises that analyse blood, tissue and other samples.
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.
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