Senator Nick Xenophon has negotiated with the Coalition to reverse a long-held policy and give Australian businesses an advantage in competing for taxpayer-funded projects. It means the Government should be able to get its ABCC legislation through the Senate
Brazil is in mourning after a chartered plane carrying Brazilian soccer team Chapecoense to the biggest match of its history crashed into a Colombian hillside, killing 75 people
Fire crews are investigating what triggered a gas explosion in Sydney's Chinatown that left 14 people injured, including two children
At the end of 2013, teachers at Bremer State High School in Queensland took a look at their results for Indigenous students, and the results were sobering. But the school put a focus on closing the education gap, and the results speak for themselves.
Here's what's coming up:
7:30am AEDT: Nick Xenophon Team MP Rebekha Sharkie will be on News Breakfast
8:05am AEDT: Senator Derryn Hinch will be on Radio National
9:15am AEDT: A new display documenting the lives of Holocaust survivors who came to Australia will open at the Australian War Memorial
10:00am AEDT: The official launch of the Sydney to Hobart yacht race will take place at the Sydney CYC
7:30pm AEDT: Melbourne City will take on Sydney FC in the FFA Cup Final
In a stunning capitulation to Nick Xenophon, the Coalition agrees to give Australian businesses an advantage in competing for taxpayer-funded projects in a deal that clears the way for the ABCC laws to pass.
A chartered plane carrying a Brazilian soccer team to the biggest match of its history has crashed into a Colombian hillside, breaking into pieces and killing 75 people, Colombian officials say.
Attorney-General George Brandis will face another Senate inquiry to determine his role in the West Australian Government's bid to claw back nearly $1 billion from a corporate collapse.
The possibility of using drones to deliver humanitarian aid in the wake of natural disasters in the Asia-Pacific region will be looked at as part of a new research project.
Concerns about possible misconduct within Tasmania's multi-million-dollar fox eradication program should have been investigated two years ago when they were raised with the Federal Government, according to federal independent MP Andrew Wilkie.
New research finds suicide rates among young Australians are at their highest level in 10 years, despite a range of prevention strategies, with calls for a new approach and national leadership.
One Nation senator Pauline Hanson calls for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to be freed, comparing his plight to that of "anti-establishment folk hero" Ned Kelly.
Up to 16,000 people are displaced in Syria's Aleppo by intense attacks on the rebel-held eastern part of the city, the UN humanitarian chief and relief coordinator Stephen O'Brien says.
Locals are being overlooked for jobs at a Geelong construction site because the contractor is using foreign workers on 457 visas, the manufacturing union claims.
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