Tony Abbott’s scepticism about climate change and opposition to legalising same-sex marriage left him outside mainstream of public opinion

Malcolm Turnbull to become Australia’s fourth prime minister in two years

Last year’s inconclusive budget stymies business as emphasis in Australia shifts from ‘mining to dining’

An Oxford professor says we overestimate the importance of those at the top of the political ladder

Move to revive diplomatic option for resolving conflict

Inquiry witnesses deny series of allegations of ill-treatment by nuns

Tenders involving new programme of employment activation due next Friday

With the mining boom coming to an end and growth slowing in China, prime minister Tony Abbott faces his biggest test

Australian PM Tony Abbot hopes attention is turning to cricket, Christmas and the beach

Country ‘complacent in prosperity’, Dublin event hears

Four places available to students from Ireland and Britain annually

New leader vows to clampdown on asylum seekers and repeal unpopular carbon tax

New PM says scrapping unpopular carbon tax will be a key priority

Opinion: Traditional alliance with US competing with geographic factors

Voters punish outgoing Labor government for six years of turbulent rule

Labor Party facing likely defeat after tumultuous six years in power

The economy has been the central focus of the five-week campaign

To those outside Australia, that nation’s first female prime minister is an iconic figure. To Australians, she seemed cold, shrill and a bit dour

Bookmakers are so certain Labor will lose that some have already paid out on Liberal Party leader Tony Abbott becoming prime minister