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Vote counting - why so long?
The votes are cast, but counting them is no simple task. Peter Martin explains the process - and why it takes so long.
An irrational ultimatum to punish 'unfair' politicians
If mainstream parties fail to provide 'fairness', socially destructive opportunists will step in.
Playing to prejudices does politicians no credit
The initial shock of Donald Trump's election win has already given way to a second-wave effect in Australia, with policymakers adjusting their stances, toughening their rhetoric, playing to prejudices once discredited.
Sketch: We've been making immigration mistakes since the convicts
"Australia has been making mistakes about the sort of people we've been letting in for quite a while now," Peter Dutton mused.
Moonshine for the disenchanted
That whining noise in the background this week was mostly from politicians and businessmen trying to pretend that they have "got" the message from the election of Donald Trump as US President, and about what it means for Australians whom they have pissed-off.
Inequality is the greatest threat to democracy, says President Barack Obama
Your personally curated news with six things you need to know before you get going.
Anthony Albanese warns Labor needs to lift its game
Labor frontbencher Anthony Albanese says the opposition must lift its primary vote and accept that it did not win the last election.
Foreign workers: ground zero in the new political order
It is tempting to conclude that Bill Shorten watched the blue-collar backlash in the US last week and panicked, deciding to condemn foreign workers taking up Australian jobs.
Bill Shorten attacks foreign workers after Donald Trump's win
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Hope in a dismal space - the good news story that had to wait
Quietly, Malcolm Turnbull began working on a solution to the intractable problems of asylum seekers, people smuggling, and indefinite detention, as a first priority of his new leadership.
Defence abuse shame: Doing nothing was not supposed to be an option
Of the 133 cases across Defence that the taskforce referred to police, just one saw the inside of a courtroom and no conviction was recorded.
The stark choice facing Turnbull's internal critics
That unelectable weakling, Bill Shorten, has demonstrated to devastating effect that the combination of party unity and focus can take you very close to the top in politics.
Trump shows why we need race-hate laws
The attacks against the Human Rights Commissioner are ill-informed.
Barack Obama praises 'excellent meeting' with Donald Trump at the White House
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Resurgent right populism threatens Turnbull's delicate balance
Australian populist-conservatives are suddenly enlivened, preaching with the certainty of someone who's just been tipped off about the second coming.
Donald Trump begins task of healing divided nation as Hillary Clinton gives gracious concession speech
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Trump win is disastrous for Australia
President Donald Trump will declare economic war on our biggest customer, wipe unprecedented amounts off global stock markets, usher in extraordinary financial instability, and risk turning the the world's biggest economy into a basket case by pushing its national debt past 100 per cent of GDP.
Second American Revolution: world gulps as Americans opt for fateful choice
Millions of Americans have said we want our country back and we couldn't care less about your global values.
President Trump: the day America became The Jerry Springer Show
This is a sad and pathetic day. A man so thick he believes he can play global politics with the likes of Vladimir Putin and skip free is plain dangerous.
Poor Malcolm Turnbull begs Gillian Triggs to protect his human rights
From: Office of the Prime Minister
What exactly is the point of the Turnbull government?
Malcolm Turnbull is governing based on Tony Abbott's agenda. Here's the evidence.
Why on earth do Americans vote on a Tuesday?
Of all the strange things about the US election - and strange barely begins to describe the current madness - the idea of voting on a Tuesday remains distinctly odd.
Donald Trump attacks Beyonce as poll shows Hillary Clinton ahead
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Rocket science, lunacy and plain weirdness engulf Parliament
There was a fair bit of weird rocket science around Parliament on Monday, and not all of it had to do with a visit by the second man to walk on the moon, Buzz Aldrin.
Malcolm Roberts' climate press conference starts bad, ends even worse
Malcolm Roberts seized his moment in the spotlight like a frenzied evangelical preacher at an exorcism/
The proof is in the posturing: free speech push mired in politics
Conservative weighting given to three vexatious racial discrimination cases tells you everything you need to know about the real motives behind much of the moral jaw-boning about Section 18C.
Politics is starting to look like war and we are the losers
Rational debate, with its unspectacular promise of sensible compromise, is now discredited or rendered politically unfeasible
A policy as full of holes as a leaky boat
Dutton and Malcolm Turnbull have been so determined to wedge Labor by daring Bill Shorten to embrace this idea or be cast as a soft touch, just like all of his predecessors.
The massive trade deal you've never heard of
There's another massive deal you've never heard of.
Change is fine but just make it clear
Transition pain with the rollout of the national broadband network is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to accepting change.
Is Turnbull the anti-FDR?
For two men born 72 years apart, Australia's 29th prime minister and the United States' most important 20th century statesman, Franklin D. Roosevelt, have a surprising amount in common. But when it comes to policy agenda and popularity, the pair could hardly be more different.
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Campaign highlights - and lowlights
The hurly-burly of the 2016 election campaign, as seen through the eyes of Fairfax reporters and photographers.