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...
Gareth Evans has warned signing up to the international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons will “tear up” the United States alliance ahead of a critical contested vote in an otherwise tranquil Labor conference. The former foreign affairs minister m...
Labor has agreed to support the independent MP Kerryn Phelps’ bill for emergency medical transfers from offshore detention, but has demanded changes that would keep a ministerial power to refuse transfers. Phelps has reiterated that “clinicians rath...
The pop music was blasting from a teenager’s birthday party in the room next door to Victorian premier Daniel Andrew’s election night reception. But Labor supporters celebrating the government’s landslide victory over the Coalition had the the moves...
The outgoing public service commissioner John Lloyd is being investigated for an alleged breach of the public service code of conduct, in what Labor has called an “unprecedented” move. Labor has targeted Lloyd in Senate estimates sessions over alleg...
March for Our Lives Survivors’ activism held up as an inspiration for young people around the world Australian students and politicians have rallied in Sydney in solidarity with the survivors of the Parkland school shooting, as part of a glo...
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...
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Australia has joined 10 other nations to sign the long-awaited Trans-Pacific Partnership, which many thought was doomed when Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the Obama-era pact in January 2017. But after strong lobbying by Japan and Aust...