With parliament resuming this week, the first Newspoll of 2017 has the government trailing Labor 46-54% on the two-party vote and the Coalition’s primary vote falling four points to 35%.
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Joe Hockey has met Donald Trump’s chief-of-staff Reince Priebus and chief strategist Steve Bannon at the White House.
Malcolm Turnbull should walk away from the deal he struck for the US to take refugees from Nauru and Manus Island.
The US embassy in Canberra has been forced to reaffirm that Donald Trump’s undertaking to honour the refugee deal stands.
Under political pressure Malcolm Turnbull has finally put a figure of $1.75 million on his donation to the Liberals’ re-election.
During his Wednesday appearance at the National Press Club Malcolm Turnbull observed he was not a “political animal” like some of his opponents. He meant it as a virtue – he was extolling his pragmatism…
Malcolm Turnbull on Wednesday will acknowledge that despite long-sustained economic growth, in many parts of Australia ‘times are not so good’.
The White House has given assurances that Australian dual citizens will not be caught by Donald Trump’s suspension of entry from seven designated predominantly Muslim countries.
Bill Shorten will put creating new jobs, sustaining existing ones, and training and retraining Australian jobseekers at the heart of his economic agenda in a major speech on Tuesday.
There were several takeouts from Malcolm Turnbull’s rather odd Monday news conference, which followed his Sunday telephone conversation with Donald Trump.
Donald Trump has told Malcolm Turnbull he will honour the deal the Australian government did with the Obama administration to take refugees who are being held offshore.
2017 has started poorly for Malcolm Turnbull. And now he must navigate a hazardous period of populism.
The government has made a concerted bid to reinforce Australia’s AAA credit credentials by ensuring the budget is still projected to return to surplus in 2020-21.
Biting insults have been exchanged as Western Australian senator Rod Culleton splits from Pauline Hanson, ahead of the High Court determining whether he will be turfed from parliament.
In his much-anticipated weekend speech to the Australian Republican Movement’s anniversary dinner, Malcolm Turnbull juggled the past, the present and the future.
As he joins the Australian Republican Movement at its 25th anniversary celebration on Saturday, Malcolm Turnbull will surely have a rueful thought for what might have been.
Ahead of next week's mid-year economic and fiscal outlook, the government has been hit with the sobering news that real GDP shrunk in the September quarter.
The new Commonwealth solicitor-general is Stephen Donaghue – an uncontroversial choice whose appointment has been welcomed.
Treasurer Scott Morrison says the government will take on more ‘good debt’ to boost productivity when current spending is under control.
Amending Section 18C would send a ‘dangerous message’, according to the Executive Council of Australian Jewry.
The Australia-Japan foreign and defence ministers’ ‘two-plus-two’ talks, due to be held in Japan before Christmas, are being deferred because of Marise Payne’s recent illness.
A ragged COAG meeting has ended with a split over a new competition agreement and public swipes at Malcolm Turnbull and his government.
The sale of the vast Kidman pastoral empire to the joint venture Outback Beef has passed the foreign investment hurdle.
The University of Canberra’s Nicholas Klomp and Michelle Grattan discuss the week in politics.
The Turnbull government has announced it will strengthen the law relating to family violence.
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