KEVIN RUDD: EX-PM SUES AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION

Former Australian leader Kevin Rudd has launched legal action against the country's main public broadcaster over a report he says is a lie ... READ MORE›

BARNABY JOYCE SET TO BECOME INFRASTRUCTURE MINISTER IN CABINET RESHUFFLE

The Deputy Prime Minister is expected to take on the infrastructure portfolio when Malcolm Turnbull announces his Cabinet reshuffle as early as today... READ MORE›

NEW ONLINE DISCLOSURE REVEALS QUEENSLAND ELECTION PARTY DONATIONS IN REAL TIME

New online disclosure reveals Queensland election party donations in real time... READ MORE›

'ISN'T IT IRONIC': PAULINE HANSON'S WA SENATOR HOSPITALISED WITH MEASLES

Mr Georgiou was confirmed as the federal One Nation senator for Western Australia last week... READ MORE›

INSULT, OFFEND AND HUMILIATE PROVISIONS TO BE REMOVED FROM RACIAL DISCRIMINATION ACT

Racial abuse will become more common in Australia if the changes go ahead, according to Labor... READ MORE›

'HE'S A NARCISSIST', FORMER HOWARD MINISTER VANSTONE SLAMS TONY ABBOTT

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull branded the former leader's comments as sad, asserting the Australian people had already given their verdict on the Abbott government... READ MORE›

CHINA'S IDEOLOGY BRINGS ENORMOUS BENEFITS TO ITS PEOPLE

The ideology of China has brought enormous benefits to the Chinese people, former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has said... READ MORE›

CHINESE-LINKED COMPANY AMONG POLITICAL DONATIONS BUT TURNBULL FUNDS STILL NOT REVEALED

The Liberal Party received 14,708,730 in donations in 2015-16, according to party disclosures published today by the Australian Electoral Commission... READ MORE›

ABBOTT SURVIVES LEADERSHIP TEST

Related Stories Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has urged an end to disunity after surviving a party confidence vote on his leadership... READ MORE›

AUSTRALIAN PM 'WILL FIGHT CHALLENGE'

Nigeria elections no delay to poll says council of state... READ MORE›

AUSTRALIA'S BELEAGUERED ABBOTT ENDURES ONE FINAL NIGHTMARE BEFOREA CHRISTMAS

The problem is, neither he nor the prime minister has managed to explain that satisfactorily to voters... READ MORE›

CALL FOR APOLOGY AFTER LIBERAL SENATOR APPEARS TO LINK 'FLEAS' TO BOAT ARRIVALS

Senator Fawcett's colleague, Senator Ian Macdonald echoed Senator Fawcett's comments, describing them as nicely put ... READ MORE›

Labor replaced its own leader twice, removing Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in his first term and replacing him with Julia Gillard before returning to Mr... READ MORE›

EGYPT COULD FREE JAILED JOURNALIST FAHMY WITHIN HOURS AL JAZEERA

Australian lawmakers have been known to change prime ministers in midterm when they become disaffected... READ MORE›

COMMENT: IF THE LABOR LEFT CANT GET BOAT TURN BACKS RIGHT, THEN WHY DO THEY EXIST?

They were complicit when they voted with their left-wing hero Julia Gillard to reintroduce mandatory offshore detention... READ MORE›

WYATT ROY WILL NOT BE INVESTIGATED OVER IRAQ FRONTLINE TRIP

Australia's Border Force said former Assistant Innovation Minister Wyatt Roy may not have immediately come under suspicion as he left the country... READ MORE›

TAIWANESE ANIMATORS CREATE VIDEO 'EXPLAINING' LIBERAL LEADERSHIP SPILL

The video also seeks to outline the personalities and public personas of both Malcolm Turnbull and Tony Abbott... READ MORE›

CLOSING THE GAP: REPORT SHOWS TARGETS FOR INDIGENOUS DISADVANTAGED 'NOT ON TRACK'

The annual Closing the Gap report has seven indicators of Indigenous disadvantage and targets to reduce them... READ MORE›

MINISTERS ASKED TO PICK SIDE IN GUN DEBATE

Senior federal government ministers have been caught up in the crossfire of a political stoush between Malcolm Turnbull and Tony Abbott over gun laws... READ MORE›

TURNBULL TOPPLES ABBOTT, TO BECOME AUSTRALIA'S FIFTH PM IN EIGHT YEARS

Abbott ousted Turnbull as leader of the Liberal Party in 2009, though Turnbull has consistently been seen as a preferred prime minister... READ MORE›

COMMENT: ABBOTT PROMISED 'NO WRECKING' - THEN HE BROKE THAT PROMISE

To be fair, anyone who thought Tony Abbott would go quietly would have to be a pretty gullible type... READ MORE›

AUSTRALIA HAS HAD FIVE PRIME MINISTERS IN FIVE YEARS

Tony Abbott removed Australia has had five prime ministers in five years... READ MORE›

ABCC PASSES LOWER HOUSE AS GUN DEBATE DERAILS PM

That attack also came from former Prime Minister Tony Abbott... READ MORE›

AUSTRALIAN PM TONY ABBOTT FACES CHALLENGE TO LEADERSHIP

Mr Simpkins, the Western Australian MP who introduced the motion, said the Prince Philip knighthood decision marked a fundamental disconnect of the expectations of ordinary people ... READ MORE›

COMMENT: LEAKS, 'POLICY PARALYSIS' AND DOUBLE STANDARDS

Tony Abbott is perhaps the purest political animal in parliament... READ MORE›

KEVIN RUDD CAUGHT UP IN JOHN PODESTA EMAIL HACK

The emails do not detail what Mr Rudd wanted to discuss with Mr Podesta... READ MORE›

TONY ABBOTT FACES 'GAMES OF THRONES' SHOWDOWN

A self-described Anglophile, Mr Abbott personally decided to reintroduce knighthoods last year after they were abolished in 1986... READ MORE›

COMMENT: THE 5 STAGES OF GRIEF FOR ABBOTT BACKERS

But within the Liberal Party itself we are told the atmosphere remains poisonous... READ MORE›

COMMENT: SACKING OF CHIEF GOVERNMENT WHIP SPELLS MORE TROUBLE FOR ABBOTT

I acknowledge and thank the Hon Philip Ruddock MP for his extraordinary contribution to our country, this government and the Liberal Party... READ MORE›

EXPLAINER: HOW DOES A LIBERAL LEADERSHIP SPILL WORK?

Chief Government Whip Philip Ruddock has confirmed that the Liberal party room will vote on a leadership spill motion when it meets today... READ MORE›

EXPLAINER: WHY IS AUSTRALIAN PRIME MINISTER TONY ABBOTT FACING A LEADERSHIP CRISIS?

A secret ballot helps Abbott's opponents, giving some MPs "cover" for voting to open the leadership... READ MORE›

MALCOLM TURNBULL SWORN IN AS OUTGOING PM TONY ABBOTT LASHES OUT IN EMOTIONAL FAREWELL SPEECH

Asked about Mr Abbott's response to the ballot, she said He was calm, he was obviously very hurt..... READ MORE›

'I WON'T CRY IN MY BEER'

'I won't cry in my beer' Barnaby Joyce disqualified by High Court... READ MORE›