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Friday morning started with a few shock announcements as Martin Foley and three other ministers announced their leave from politics.

Indonesia has warned Australia over a series of breaches of its territorial waters and demanded the government stop turning boats back.

The British supermodel and the Australian Prime Minister do not appear to have a lot in common. One is about to pose nude for the 60th anniversary of Playboy. The other is Tony Abbott. But the unlikely pair share similar mind-sets when it comes to talking, or rather not talking, ...

Prime Minister Tony Abbott seems to have toned down his tough talk on the asylum-seeker issue after meeting the Indonesian president.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott says he wants to get Australia’s relationship with Indonesia right, but the opposition believes there’s a big problem.

A boat bound for Australia, carrying 120 asylum seekers sinks off the coast of Indonesia, leaving 20 dead, mostly children.

For only the second time in the past six years, the Australian Navy intercepted a boat and handed the asylum seekers back to Indonesia.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has issued a communications clampdown on his frontbench, ordering all ministers obtain the approval of his office prior to speaking to media.

Tony Abbott sacked three department heads within minutes of being sworn in as prime minister but one of the nation's most influential public servants, Martin Parkinson, defied speculation and retained his job.

Prime Minister-elect Tony Abbott has tried to head off accusations the coalition government has gone backwards by not being able to appoint more than one woman to cabinet.

Prime Minister-elect Tony Abbott has announced his new cabinet and ministry line-up in Canberra, and has come under fire for including only one woman — Julie Bishop — on the team.

Cabinet minister Gary Gray, has apologised to South Africa’s high commissioner for wrongly announcing at an official function that anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela had died.