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.
Former PM Tony Abbott has joined in the call to ban foreign and other donations to political parties.
Political activism is not retweeting a petition about the live cattle trade while watching an episode of The Bachelor.
Bill Shorten presented himself as a champion of reform but how could he be taken seriously if he was seen to condone Sam Dastyari's bewildering stupidity?
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.
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