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Mining 14hr 49min ago

Morwell coal mine fire inquiry to hear from operator GDF Suez

24 May 2014: Communities demanding to hear why blaze that choked region with smoke spread so quickly and burned for so long
Australian politics 17hr 2min ago

Tony Abbott talks double dissolution in fight over budget

24 May 2014: Prime minister admits some compromise is necessary but insists he will stick with difficult and unpopular measures
Tony Abbott 18hr 15min ago

Tony Abbott handed arts cuts petition at book industry awards

24 May 2014: Poet Maxine Beneba Clarke gives prime minister open letter signed by artist and writers objecting to funding cuts to Australia Council, Screen Australia and ABC
Campbell Newman 20hr 29min ago

Campbell Newman loses fifth MP as Chris Davis suddenly quits parliament

23 May 2014: Queensland government faces byelection as maverick resigns over changes to corruption watchdog and doctors' contracts
Australia 21hr 45min ago

Body found in Nepal is missing Australian, autopsy indicates

23 May 2014: Parents of Matt Allpress confirm clothing and personal items found nearby belonged to their son
Lenore Taylor on politics 1 day ago

The verdict is unequivocal: the budget is inequitable

23 May 2014: It’s plain to voters the Coalition had options for how to meet its quite reasonable fiscal objectives – and it chose to hit the poor
Tony Abbott 1 day ago

Tony Abbott sweetens budget pain with crimefighting package

23 May 2014: Prime minister unveils new funding as Coalition figures seek to brand opposition leader negative
Tony Abbott 1 day ago

Tony Abbott says he was not lobbied on reforms by scholarship institute

23 May 2014: Prime minister questioned over budget measure that would let non-university providers tap commonwealth funds
Australia 1 day ago

Julie Bishop says Thailand ‘volatile’ after coup as ambassador called in

23 May 2014: Fears thousands of Australians could be stranded in Thailand or left out of pocket if unrest not covered by travel insurance
National Broadband Network (NBN) 1 day ago

NBN chief executive faces legal action over US utility disasters

23 May 2014: Bill Morrow is named in shareholder lawsuit over safety failings linked to fatal gas explosions involving former company
Independent Commission Against Corruption 1 day ago

Nick Di Girolamo launches $12.5m defamation suit against Fairfax Media

23 May 2014: Former head of AWH alleges his reputation was trashed by stories published in the Sydney Morning Herald
Australia 1 day ago

Peters ice-cream to be scooped up by French firm

23 May 2014: R&R tipped to pay about $450m for Australian company famous for the Drumstick and Choc Wedge
Great Barrier Reef 1 day ago

Germany's biggest bank pulls funding for Abbot Point coal terminal

23 May 2014: Green groups say Deutsche Bank has bowed to public opinion after 180,000 Germans signed a petition opposing the scheme
Australian education 1 day ago

University leaders have serious concerns about higher education plan

23 May 2014: Special report: Vice-chancellors are worried about student debt, mature-aged enrolment and cuts to skilled disciplines

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Politics

Tony Abbott talks double dissolution in fight over budget

Prime minister admits some compromise is necessary but insists he will stick with difficult and unpopular measures
Tony Abbott handed arts cuts petition at book industry awards

Poet Maxine Beneba Clarke gives prime minister open letter signed by artist and writers objecting to funding cuts to Australia Council, Screen Australia and ABC
Campbell Newman loses fifth MP as Chris Davis suddenly quits parliament

Queensland government faces byelection as maverick resigns over changes to corruption watchdog and doctors' contracts

Sport

Port Adelaide down Hawthorn to stay top of AFL ladder

Port Adelaide enhanced their status as flag fancies after a 14-point win against reigning premiers Hawthorn
Port Adelaide v Hawthorn – as it happened

Goal-by-goal report: Port Adelaide gave a demonstration of their title credentials with a pulsating victory over Hawthorn
Mitchell Pearce admits he deserved NSW Origin dropping

Sydney Roosters half-back Mitchell Pearce says he deserved to be sacked from the NSW team for his Kings Cross hijinks

Comment

Is libertarianism the best friend of queer communities?

Julie Novak and Simon Copland: Head to head: Libertarianism is often criticised for being the politics of the straight white male. But does it actually offer LGBT people freedom the state can't deliver?
Gonski and the Australian social contract

Dean Ashenden for Inside Story: Neither Labor nor the Coalition is rising to the challenge posed by Gonski – but the man apologises for nothing and regrets nothing
All Tony Abbott wants is everything Tony Abbott wants

Adam Brereton: The Coalition has struggled to convince Australia that their budget is the only way to reform the nation. What does the prime minister want now? Mostly for his critics to leave him alone

Health

Joe Hockey’s medical research fund is nothing more than a distraction

Christopher Mayes: If we health and medical researchers do not stand up now, we will be left with the moral blight of having silently colluded in the destruction of universal healthcare
Healthcare is not a product, no matter what neoliberalism has taught us

Humphrey McQueen: Even the staunchest opponents of neoliberalism have been infected by its presumptions. The current healthcare debate is our moment to re-learn what universal provision actually is

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Multimedia

Australian PM winks as pensioner says she works on phone sex line to make ends meet - video

Tony Abbott, presumably not realising he was on camera, winked at Jon Faine, the host of 774 ABC, during a live phone call, when a pensioner called Gloria mentions she needed to work on an adult sex line to make ends meet.