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Weighed under by budget cuts and loss of an international platform the Australian Broadcasting Commission, everybody's Aunty, must wonder when Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott's flying monkeys will cease their attacks on its integrity.Fortunately some of those who become collateral damage in the war on public broadcasting bite back publicly, as did Simon Fenton Chapman AO BA(Hons) (UNSW), PhD (USyd), FASSA, HonFFPH (UK).Professor Chapman in

Malcolm Turnbull, Prime Minister in waiting, has distanced himself from Tony Abbott, the current Prime Minister, and Abbott’s trashing of Gillian Triggs, the Human Rights Commissioner. In doing so Turnbull has repeated the lies of the Prime Minister about stopping the boats being the best way to keep asylum seeker children out of detention.

“JUST as Tony Abbott gains a significant shift in the polls that sees him showing a heartbeat after his “near-death experience” earlier this month, the Prime Minister has once again come under attack from his own party.

Voters could be forgiven for thinking the leaks against the Prime Minister are being co-ordinated.

Judging by the tone of media coverage, Tony Abbott’s Prime Ministership has now entered its terminal phase. Everything he does and says is being judged on that basis, with every slipup a potential disaster.

But having just beaten a spill motion, and with at least moderately good news from the polls, he can scarcely be removed immediately. On the other hand, as long as he stays in office, the government is effectively in lame duck mode, with its every decision open to reversal by his successor. To take the most recent example, if Abbott were replaced by Turnbull, the attacks on Gillian Triggs would cease instantly.

Australia's only national Aboriginal television news service is facing the axe under sweeping changes within SBS. Amy McQuire reports.

The inevitable is almost upon us. The unseating of the Prime Minister is imminent. The phrase “it’s only a matter of time” reflects the state of his prime ministership. Good Government he said would begin again after 17 months of mediocrity and find its way out of the dark hole it had been hiding in. The adults would grow up and all would be right with the political world.

The Captain of Team Australia was fully in command of his game plan and he would present a more collegiate, consultative leadership.

Chris Weston, Chief Market Strategist at IG Markets Asian-based traders have been net sellers of USDs today, although perversely there has been good selling of US treasuries, with the US two-year is up 4 basis points. This may indicate fixed income traders this side of the world don’t believe Janet Yellen is as dovish as […]

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Social Services Minister Scott Morrison says wholesale changes to the welfare system are "necessary", but he has signalled they will be introduced slowly and in stages.

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Mr President, I move that in view of the fact that the Prime Minister plainly lied to the House of Representatives, and when asked to amend his utterance lied again, that this House asks him to resign.

Report says 60% integration of renewable energy in European distribution grids feasible by 2030 given infrastructure and regulatory support.

One of the things that bothers me about the current Australian government is lack of vision, lack of the ability to think outside the square or to challenge the status quo.

I’m going to illustrate with an example built around our health system (on which I have written voluminously lately), the horrific domestic violence record in this country, auto-immune conditions and food.

NZ renewables giant launches online electricity retail product in NSW, and will target other states soon.