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Opposition spokesman for housing Andrew Bragg.

Labor offered Coalition more staff to support dead FOI bill, says Bragg

Liberal senator Andrew Bragg has revealed a negotiating tactic from the government in seeking support for the controversial bill that was shelved on Thursday.

  • Nick Newling

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Hanson slapped herself on the wrist and stormed out of the chamber before the Senate censured her.

Coalition opposes censure of Pauline Hanson over Muslim remarks

The One Nation leader stormed out of the chamber before the vote, slapping herself on the wrist and labelling the proceedings a joke.

  • Brittany Busch and Nick Newling
Liberal MP Michaelia Cash has claimed the travel allowance more frequently than any other senior politician.

The other travel perk politicians pocket when they go to Canberra

Senator Michaelia Cash has claimed $123,978 over 40 months, or more than $3000 a month, to stay in a home she owns in the nation’s capital.

  • Brittany Busch and Nigel Gladstone
Deputy opposition leader and shadow treasurer Ted O’Brien.

Senior Coalition MPs claim $10,000 expenses at time of Liberal fundraiser

The trio have said they were attending parliamentary business when they travelled to Sydney in August.

  • Mike Foley and Nick Newling
Nationals leader David Littleproud and Opposition leader Sussan Ley take their seats for Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra on Monday 3 November 2025. fedpol Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

Hastie threat emerges as Ley fights to hold Coalition together

The opposition leader is being pushed towards dumping the Liberal Party’s net zero pledge as she fights to keep the Coalition together – and for her leadership.

  • Paul Sakkal, James Massola and Mike Foley
Senator Lidia Thorpe made the comments at Sunday’s pro-Palestine rally in Melbourne.

AFP investigating Lidia Thorpe’s ‘burn down Parliament House’ comments

The Australian Federal Police are probing whether legislation was breached by the senator after she said she would “burn down Parliament House to make a point” on Palestinian and Indigenous rights.

  • Nick Newling
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As Europe falls to the far right, Hastie and Ley are at odds about what it means for the Liberals

Immigration, an issue that should be problematic for a centre-left Albanese government, is instead bedevilling his conservative opponents.

  • Matthew Knott
Opposition foreign affairs spokeswoman Michaelia Cash and Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong.

‘Cover-up’: Penny Wong, Michaelia Cash clash over return of IS brides

Officials from Anthony Albanese’s department have declined to confirm basic details about the return of wives and children of Islamic State fighters from Syria.

  • Matthew Knott
Kim Beazley, chairman of the Australian War Memorial, and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in February.

Give Trump beefed-up AUKUS deal, Beazley urges Albanese

The former Labor leader and ambassador to the US says Australia’s rich deposits of rare earths should be tied into the submarine pact.

  • Paul Sakkal
Dutton and Hastie at a campaign press conference last week.

Andrew Hastie is ‘leadership material’ but there’s still votes to be counted: Cash

As the dust settles on the Coalition’s extraordinary election defeat, the party will need to elect a new leader following its former leader Peter Dutton’s defeat in his own seat of Dickson.

  • Hamish Hastie