Mr Morrison says he has no plans to ease the restrictions on media access to detention centres.
Under the Immigration Department's rules, journalists wanting to visit detention centres must sign an agreement promising not to interview asylum seekers.
At the end of any visit, recorded material must be handed over for officials to review and any content deemed to breach the agreement must be deleted. ABC
Morrison said the federal government would not be briefing the media on the matters discussed.
"Our dialogue, like our operations, will be undertaken with Indonesia with total discretion to ensure the success of that dialogue," he told reporters in Sydney on Friday. News
The Federal Government has announced it will resettle 500 Syrian refugees as part of its humanitarian refugee program.
The places will be quarantined for Syrians within the existing annual refugee intake, which is capped at 13,700.
Mr Morrison says the decision should not be interpreted as an encouragement for asylum seekers to get on boats bound for Australia. ABC
"There are circumstances where Australians must take responsibility for their own conduct overseas.
"If you break the laws of other countries or are accused of doing so, you are subjected to their legal system."
Speaking about consular affairs for the first time since taking over as foreign minister, Ms Bishop has urged people to take out insurance and check Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade advice before they travel overseas.
She has rejected calls for a government travel levy to help cover the costs of helping Australians overseas. News
ASYLUM seekers arriving by boat who could have expected a ticket to New Zealand from next year will instead be sent to Nauru or Manus Island.
It is understood the Coalition has no plans to proceed with a deal struck by Julia Gillard for NZ to take 150 boat refugees each year from 2014. News
Tony Abbott has incurred the wrath of Indonesia's journalists by excluding them from a press conference, and even committed a criminal offence, according to the head of the country's journalists' union. Fairfax
The other newcomers are Palmer United Party (PUP) senators Glenn Lazarus from Queensland, Jacqui Lambie from Tasmania and Zhenya Wang from Western Australia.
Mr Abbott will be able to count on the three PUP senators, Family First's senator-elect Day and Senator Madigan as all have publicly opposed the carbon tax.
PUP supports reimbursing carbon tax that has already been paid. Fairfax
Doesn't know how to do it or how to pay for it but will do it anyway because reasons
Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane wants Holden to continue to build cars in Australia for the next 100 years.
He's not sure how much money the federal government can offer to help save the company or where it will come from
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Clive continues sticking the boot into his old party. Mal Brough just filed his defence of Palmer's defamation allegations.
In August, Mr Palmer claimed Mr Brough had approached him to fund a sexual harassment case against former Speaker Peter Slipper. Mr Brough denied the claims.
Mr Palmer later lodged an $800,000 defamation suit against the new Member for Fisher. News
In other Clive news, he won Fairfax by 7 votes.
New federal Environment Minister Greg Hunt says that under the carbon price emissions have actually increased. And in an interview with Lateline last week he quoted figures to back up the claim.
"The strange thing about the carbon tax was that emissions went up, not down, from 560 to 637 million tonnes," Mr Hunt said.
He was unequivocal. The carbon price "doesn't work", "doesn't do the job" and is "a just hopeless means of achieving the outcome," he said during the interview. ABC
Mr Abbott effectively apologised for the actions of the former government at an official reception on Monday night hosted by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
"There have been times, I'm sorry to say, when Australia must have tried your patience: when we 'put the sugar on the table' for people smugglers; or cancelled the live cattle trade in panic at a TV program," he said. AFR
Murali says the Government's tough new laws have not deterred him from trying to make the journey again.
"We heard about the people being transferred to Papua New Guinea on the television and the radio," he said.
"I would still rather still rather live there than in Sri Lanka."
Krishnan, another Tamil who was sent back to Sri Lanka after travelling to Australia by boat, says he too would be prepared to make the journey again. ABC
