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Australia’s national scientific agency announces more research job losses as it looks for budgetary savings

The boss of Australia's biggest bank has nominated a preferred migration rate while appearing before a parliamentary committee. saying a target is appropriate.

Perhaps the most profane opening paragraph in the history of Australian journalism can be found in one of Black Inc.’s avowedly highbrow Quarterly Essays. “Those Chinese fuckers are trying to rat-fuck us,” Kevin Rudd is quoted as saying, in David Marr’s June 2010 edition of the essay series. Profane, yes,…

Pauline Hanson's decades of remarks about race, including a sci-fi prediction about Australia's future, have been used to prove she vilified a Muslim senator.

The leader of one of the Pacific's poorest countries believes Australian business investment can benefit both nations during a time of great opportunity.

A new “complete” monthly consumer price index (CPI) will be released next week, and will become Australia’s primary measure of inflation.

Climate Minister Chris Bowen hopes to meet with his Turkish counterpart to resolve an impasse over the right to host the world's most important climate meeting.

Australian rugby league’s greatest strength is its production line of talent but the R360 competition is threatening to change that

Tennis great Mark Edmondson still vividly recalls his 1976 Australian Open triumph some 50 years on from one of the biggest shocks in sports history.