China has accused Australia of bowing to protectionist sentiment for blocking the Ausgrid bid, as well as for an earlier decision against a Chinese-led consortium to buy cattle company Kidman & Co.
Queensland federal MP George Christensen will not face electoral bribery charges following a probe into one of his Facebook posts.
Australia's move follows revelations jihadists used prepaid money cards in the 2015 Paris attacks.
A month would have passed since the July 2 federal election before voters in the Townsville-based electorate of Herbert could have certainty over who represents them in Canberra.
The Labor senator has apologised for asking a Chinese linked company to pay his debt saying he acted first and thought later. Courtesy ABC News 24.
A proposal designed to delay and divide is doing exactly that. And conservatives are loving it.
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.
A blatant act of collusion between the two biggest political parties in Australia will fall apart.
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.
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.
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.
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