June 18, 2013 The Tax Office has declared war on those who have helped Australians avoid tax.

June 17, 2013 Should there be a national system for working with children checks?

June 17, 2013 Workers who smoke cost their employers more than $3000 a year each, a study has found.

June 17, 2013 Mining magnate and aspiring Prime Minister Clive Palmer says the Australian Labor Party's latest round of leadership speculation has been sparked by the growing threat of his Palmer United Party.

June 17, 2013 Peter Garrett has put the future of school funding reforms into the Labor leadership mix, saying he will quit as Education Minister if there is a switch back to Kevin Rudd.

June 17, 2013 The Greens will introduce legislation to protect national parks from state government-backed grazing and logging in the Senate on Monday.

June 17, 2013 When Chinese Australian businessman James Peng was spectacularly kidnapped by the Chinese government in 1993 in Macau, Henry Tsang, Sydney's then deputy lord mayor, pleaded for his release.

June 17, 2013 Online scams cost Australians more than $93 million last year, with dating scams among the most lucrative.

June 17, 2013 Young people are passionate about ideas and policy, but find national politics unengaging. Olly Tripodi wants to see an annual gathering to propose and debate mock bills, some of which become actual laws

June 17, 2013 There is too little debate about how to move forward from racism, says Shane Houston from the University of Sydney.