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Award-winning journalist Simon Benson is The Australian’s Political Editor. He was previously National Affairs Editor, the Daily Telegraph’s NSW political editor, and also president of the NSW Parliamentary Press Gallery. He grew up in Melbourne and studied philosophy before completing a postgraduate degree in journalism.

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Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull arrives for House of Representatives Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra, Monday, March 20, 2017. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

PM locks in race-hate law reform

Malcolm Turnbull has struck a compromise deal for historic changes to section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act.

Simon Benson and DAVID CROWE

Rohan Wirasinha and Joe Caputo National multicultural leader calls for Tas to oppose national race law change.

Migrants back integration focus

Migrant groups have backed the government’s multicultural statement.

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Australian passport on a map of the world, bearing Australia's coat of arms on the front cover. Pic DFAT. Picture: Dfat

Integration core to Oz identity

Australia’s national identity will be redefined in a new multicultural policy that says English language is ‘critical’.

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Shadow Minister for Agriculture Joel Fitzgibbon holding a doorstop to respond to Senate passing the 10.5% backpacker tax rate at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture Kym Smith

‘Get the gas out of the ground’

Senior Labor frontbencher Joel Fitzgibbon says an ‘urgent’ transition to gas rather than renewables is needed.

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SUNDAY TELEGRAPH - PMP Greg Hunt meets with Toni McCaffery at the PM's Sydney offices today to discuss vaccinations. Toni lost her daughter Dana in 2009 to whooping cough.

Turnbull rebuke for warring team

Malcolm Turnbull has counselled senior ministers involved in a Victorian factional war to end the feud.

12/03/2017. PM Malcolm Turnbull meets families in Evatt Memorial Park, Lugarno in Sydney's South West with MP David Coleman, to announce a Federal Government initative to ban unvaccinated children from childcare centres. Britta Campion / The Australian

WA fallout threat for PM

Recriminations over the WA Libs’ One Nation preference deal are threatening to spill over into the PM’s partyroom.

Simon Benson and Andrew Burrell

ANALYSISWA Election

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Labor has One Nation strategy

Largely under the radar, Labor went hunting for One Nation votes in WA.

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PREMIUM CONTENT - NO NEWS.COM.AU, NO PERTHNOW, AUSTRALIAN OUT .. NO SALES 09/03/17. Dr Sarang Chitale leaving his home in Warrington, England today. His medical identity has been used by fake doctor Shyam Acharya. Picture: Matthew Pover

Fake doctor ‘stole’ Brit identity

A British rheumatologist, who may have trained with fake NSW doctor Shyam Acharya, has been tracked down.

Jacquelin Magnay, Simon Benson and Sean Parnell

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Richard Maras twice had to complain to WestConnex officials that his house is not slated for demolition after workers turned off power and phone/internet lines, and put security fence around his house. Picture: Craig Wilson

‘$50 a tonne’ carbon tax

A decade of political dispute and government paralysis is to blame for wholesale electricity prices spiking this year.

Treasurer Scott Morrison holding a press conference about the Australian National Accounts, at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture Kym Smith

Morrison to woo middle Australia

Scott Morrison is framing a budget aimed at boosting the government’s flagging stocks in middle Australia.

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