It’s hard to find the words to capture the precise form of unhinging that is playing out in the 45th parliament in its final days, but let me try. Over the past couple of days, a war between current and former members of One Nation resulted in alleg...
Oliver Yates, the son of a Liberal politician and long-time party member, wants to take on Josh Frydenberg in a seat once held by Robert Menzies to start a people power campaign not only in Australia, but around the world. The former Macquarie banke...
An hour and a half before Andrew Hastie stood up in the federation chamber of the Australian parliament to share confidential information he’d picked up from the Americans, word reached the spy chief, Duncan Lewis, that something might be afoot. Has...
The tight timeframe on building Australia’s nine new Navy frigates has the potential to embarrass the government, the auditor’s office has warned. It’s also worried the Defence department has given second-tier approval for the offshore patrol vessel...
People who litter or jaywalk could be caught using facial recognition technology if the broad powers proposed by Peter Dutton’s home affairs department are not limited, the Law Council has warned. At a parliamentary inquiry hearing on Thursday the L...
The Turnbull government will use the looming May budget to dump plans to increase the Medicare levy to fund the national disability insurance scheme, in a shift intended to reframe the tax debate before the next election. Scott Morrison will use a s...
Australia’s former prime minister John Howard has issued a public warning to his colleagues to get their collective act together, saying a change of leader is not the answer to the Turnbull government’s woes. With the government bracing for the like...
A majority of Australians would support phasing out coal power by 2030, including half the people in a sample identifying as Coalition voters, according to a survey by a progressive thinktank. The research funded by the Australia Institute says 60%...
The Turnbull government has warned Senate crossbenchers it would be “economically damaging” if small and medium businesses got a tax cut but big business did not, as the backroom lobbying effort on company tax reform moves into overdrive. Guardian A...
The Berejiklian government has made changes to the leadership at the very top of the department responsible for water policy following scandals over the administration of water in New South Wales. The government announced on the weekend that the hea...