May 29, 2013 The Clean Energy Finance Corporation's chief executive Oliver Yates outlines the case for preserving his $10b green fund in an email to the Coalition.

May 29, 2013 The national disability insurance scheme DisabilityCare Australia is at risk of ''grinding to a halt'' unless enough workers can be trained to provide care by the time the program is running in 2018, according to community sector workforce analysis.

May 29, 2013 Coalition will not oppose change that would cut $700 million from the private health insurance rebate, saying the 'dire fiscal situation' had caused its change of heart.

May 29, 2013 Two Australian security guards were asleep at Bangkok airport when a criminal convicted of serious offences in Australia who they were guarding slipped away unnoticed through a fire exit door, an investigation has found.

May 29, 2013 Journalists and production staff at the ABC have been angered by a pay offer that would see wages rise by less than the cost of living.

May 29, 2013 Known to many as Harvard University's ''most successful dropout'', he's one of the world's most successful men who has given more than anyone to charities in desperate need of funding.

May 29, 2013 In Canberra, as in every national capital, the spookery never stops. Only the technology changes.

May 29, 2013 Facebook users are being added to offensive and potentially defamatory groups without their consent, causing a headache for politicians and their staff.

May 29, 2013 Australia still has a small but persistent jihadist community that is tight-knit and continues to pose a danger, a terrorism expert has said after the arrest of a young Sydney man on terrorism charges.

May 29, 2013 New underclass of 100,000 asylum seekers, living on as little as $220 a week and with no rights to work, could be created in just five years if current trends continue.