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After helping to pass the first national security laws, the opposition leader has had second thoughts, asking for a review of the laws. Follow the day’s developments live ...
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Malcolm Turnbull introduces legislation to the House of Representative, saying it is ‘critical’ to security agencies’ operations
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Ipsos poll shows Labor comfortably ahead of the Coalition just one month from the state election
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From the bush to the city, eight finalists are waiting to see which group will take out the 2014 Indigenous governance award
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Expect more cooking and renovation shows. Amanda Meade reports on what we’ll be watching – like it or not
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Baird was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for bravery after he was killed during a special forces mission in Afghanistan
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A film detailing an Australian music professor’s theory that Bach’s second wife Anna Magdalena composed one of his most famous works is causing a classical stir. Renowned cellist Steven Isserlis debunks the claim
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Critics say the government will struggle to find enough activities in remote areas to meet target and warn against people on work for the dole doing jobs that would normally be paid
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Environment minister Greg Hunt announces deal with Clive Palmer to pass Liberal climate change grants scheme Direct Action without an emissions trading scheme. As it happened.
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Environmental assessment will instead use paperwork from previous plan to dump spoil in Great Barrier Reef marine park
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New counter-terrorism bill builds on foreign fighters bill that passed the Senate on Wednesday and legislation increasing intelligence-gathering powers
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An SBS series promises to reveal the unsustainable fishing practices prevalent in the seafood industry
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Neurologists win $300,000 award for work that has led to better diagnosis and treatments for condition that affects 50 million people worldwide
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Legislative council is told that protection from protesters bill is ‘one of the worst-drafted pieces of legislation I’ve seen’
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Controversial policy will pass through Senate after Hunt agrees to ‘investigate emission trading schemes’
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Critics say the government will struggle to find enough activities in remote areas to meet target and warn against people on work for the dole doing jobs that would normally be paid
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Environment minister Greg Hunt announces deal with Clive Palmer to pass Liberal climate change grants scheme Direct Action without an emissions trading scheme. As it happened.
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New counter-terrorism bill builds on foreign fighters bill that passed the Senate on Wednesday and legislation increasing intelligence-gathering powers
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Neurologists win $300,000 award for work that has led to better diagnosis and treatments for condition that affects 50 million people worldwide
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Treasurer says council regulations prevented him pushing two tables together, hence the need to act on $250bn regulatory drag on economy
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After helping to pass the first national security laws, the opposition leader has had second thoughts, asking for a review of the laws. Follow the day’s developments live ...
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Malcolm Turnbull introduces legislation to the House of Representative, saying it is ‘critical’ to security agencies’ operations
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Audience at prime minister’s science awards offers ‘desultory applause’ when invited to judge the government
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Opposition leader writes to Tony Abbott asking the government to review laws, which were passed with Labor support
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Melissa Parke: If a corporation’s profits or operations will be restricted by a country’s laws or the decisions of its courts, under the TPP it will be able to sue
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Advocating terrorism is outlawed and overseas conflict zones are in effect no-go zones after security legislation goes through
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Cutting funding by 20% without giving institutions a chance to recoup the money would be the worst possible outcome, universities say
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First Dog: When a carrot tries to enter parliament in a questionable outfit, he finds out the hard way who's allowed to be racist in the nation's capital
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Government agrees to Nick Xenophon’s demand for ‘safeguards’ scheme and will investigate Clive Palmer’s dormant emissions trading proposal
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The fallout over Australian National University’s decision to divest from fossil fuel companies shows the language of climate risk is now in dollars and returns not degrees centigrade
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Melissa Parke: If a corporation’s profits or operations will be restricted by a country’s laws or the decisions of its courts, under the TPP it will be able to sue
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First Dog: When a carrot tries to enter parliament in a questionable outfit, he finds out the hard way who's allowed to be racist in the nation's capital
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Brigid Delaney: Who has clean hands when it comes to email? Perhaps we should have new rules around email – like switching from chat sessions to the phone, for example
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Paola Totaro: The end of British support for search and rescue operations in the southern Mediterranean is appalling. Yet again, the British Conservatives have filched policy from their former colony
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Warwick Smith: It would be a mistake to dismiss Murdoch’s concerns about inequality as nothing more than self-interest. It’s a victory for advocates of regulated markets
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James Woodford: Destruction and regeneration are the reef’s two great constants – the problem is that the reef no longer has the resilience it once had
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Mark Fletcher: State parliamentarians on the taxpayer dollar and opponents of federal government programmes will be rejoicing at the prime minister’s backflip on the federation
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Antony Loewenstein: I’ve hesitated to write about gender, worried that I’ll be slammed for daring to speak out. But we all benefit from gender equality, and therefore must give feminism some tough love
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Few things in this world make the average white Australian male as uncomfortable as the thought of dancing, writes Jack Kerr
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Labor’s promise to hold a royal commission might have symbolic value, but we already know many of the solutions
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Quentin Dempster: If the ABC axes its state current affairs shows in a scramble to find savings, it won’t be staying true to its editorial and charter obligations
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Jerico Mandybur: Independent fashion publications are making lad style ‘cool’ and in doing so, they’re reducing disadvantage to a trend
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ABC makes another bid at balancing right-left views; New Matilda takes on News Corp, and Walkley nominations news
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An SBS series promises to reveal the unsustainable fishing practices prevalent in the seafood industry
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Australia says it will stop issuing visas to people coming from countries in west Africa hit by Ebola
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News that Australia's opposition leader has done something 'progressive' and voiced support for marriage equality has the team from the Roast bringing out the Bill Shorten dancers
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Labor leader Bill Shorten takes to the TV airwaves to make the case against what he calls 'Mr Abbott's $100,000 degrees'
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First Dog on the Moon shares some of his early, unpublished work with the Guardian Australia multimedia team. There are curious teen pizzas and sea cucumbers with appalling habits, and of course, early renditions of the Dog himself
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A University of Canberra lecturer in sustainable communities has challenged Labor leader Bill Shorten over a potential weakening of the renewable energy target
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Sydney teenager Abdullah Elmir has appeared in a second propaganda video for the Islamic State, purportedly filmed in Mosul, Iraq
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The Greens leader, Christine Milne, says the Australian government must respond to the call for help from African countries to tackle Ebola
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Greens senator Scott Ludlam has appeared in a rap video taking on the federal government's data retention laws
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Western Australian Premier Colin Barnett has been heckled by protesters during a rally against deaths in custody
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Two Australian pilots are being detained in Indonesia for allegedly violating the country's air space
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Speaking in the aftermath of the shootings in the Canadian capital, Ottawa, Australia's prime minister, Tony Abbott, says security at the federal parliament was upgraded six weeks ago
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Labor deputy leader Tanya Plibersek says Australians' thoughts are with the Canadian people after a gunman shot and killed a soldier at the Canadian National War Memorial
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Dr Jeremy Farrar says international community is belatedly taking the actions necessary to stem the tide of the disease
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More than 200 Iraqi peshmerga and Free Syrian Army soldiers carrying heavy weapons head for the town to join battle
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Yehuda Glick shot at close range outside meeting of Israeli activists at the city’s Begin Centre
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Kuznetsov company says engines used in Antares rocket were ‘functioning normally’ and suggests problem may lie with US modification of them
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Central bank’s head, Janet Yellen, confirms cessation of buying bonds in October after injection of £4.5 trillion over five years
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Rightwing prime minister Viktor Orbán is using his huge electoral majority to rewrite the rules, and not just for Hungary
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US president praises health workers battling Ebola in the worst affected West Africa nations
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Lawyers representing two Libyan victims of rendition criticise edited way documents are to be released
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Net may be closing on Knights Templar leader Servando Gómez, alias La Tuta, as he releases rambling online video message
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Letters: Security firms, arms dealers, people smugglers and other merchants of war must be regretting the end of a lucrative business enterprise
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Letters: Perhaps our 27 fellow EU members and the commission have become so fed up with Britain’s persistent moaning and general obstructionism that they’d quite like to see the back of us
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Roma group calls on Royal Spanish Academy to remove latest definition of the word, saying ‘language has consequences’
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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has unveiled a new presidential palace on the outskirts of Ankara. The immense project has been built at a reported cost of $350m. The building has been denounced by ecologists as an environmental blight and by the opposition as evidence of Erdogan’s autocratic tendencies. Supporters say the palace is a symbol of what the president touts as his drive towards a ‘new Turkey’
Australia divestment war shows investment is now the main climate change battleground