George Christensen cleared of electoral bribery allegations
Queensland federal MP George Christensen will not face electoral bribery charges following a probe into one of his Facebook posts.
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Australia to reform prepaid money cards to combat terrorism funding
Australia's move follows revelations jihadists used prepaid money cards in the 2015 Paris attacks.
One Nation pair cast shadow even in their absence
Only half of Queensland's successful Senate attended the Australian Electoral Commissions formal declaration of results on Friday, but it was the two absent future One Nation senators – Pauline Hanson and Malcolm Roberts – that loomed large over the proceedings.
Labor claims 35-vote victory in cliffhanger Herbert seat
Labor candidate Cathy O'Toole looks set to secure the federal electorate of Herbert by 35 votes after Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull travelled to Townsville earlier in the week.
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Government's shaky start
After some Coalition MPs left early on Thursday night, Labor pounced and the Government lost three votes in the House of Representatives.
Comment & Analysis
Face it: there will be no free vote of marriage equality
A proposal designed to delay and divide is doing exactly that. And conservatives are loving it.
Mathias Cormann wobbles short of a sizzling insult to Bill Shorten
Mathias Cormann, when he offered up his "wibble wobble, jelly on a plate" line on Monday, surely had a hotter verse from that annoying nursery rhyme on the tip of his tongue.
How the big parties feathered their Senate nests
A blatant act of collusion between the two biggest political parties in Australia will fall apart.
Voting and counting votes needs to be made easier
The new voting system was supposed to prevent senators being elected on very small percentages of the primary vote. So did Hercules Turnbull clean out the unrepresentative swill in the Augean stables? No.
Free-speech fundamentalists break free of good conscience
David Leyonhjelm is a boorish, supercilious know-all with the empathy of a besser block. And that new Hansonite conspiracy theorist from Queensland? He's an absurdist fringe-dweller and fellow hate-speech apologist. It's wacky and wackier. Neither of these self-promoting misanthropes would have the first idea about entrenched discrimination. Yet both are experts.You may disagree with this harsh critique and probably think it unbecoming of a serious media outlet. But offensive to them, it is not. And that's the point.
Banks respond to the Reserve Bank rate cut as one
Our biggest banks move fast. Either that, or they collude. At 2.37 pm on Tuesday within minutes of the Reserve Bank cutting its cash rate to an all-time low, the Commonwealth Bank announced a completely different way of responding. Instead of passing on some of all of the cut, it would only pass on half and hand some of the rest out to customers as higher term deposit rates.