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Detention's mind-boggling cost
It costs tax-payers more than half-a-million dollars for each asylum seeker detained on Manus Island and Nauru, a new report concludes.
It costs tax-payers more than half-a-million dollars for each asylum seeker detained on Manus Island and Nauru, a new report concludes.
The One Nation leader has delivered her maiden Senate speech. See how it compares to the one she delivered two decades ago.
Treasurer Scott Morrison has announced changes to the Government's superannuation policy after much opposition to the original plan.
The Greens walk out during the One Nation leader's maiden senate speech as she calls for the burqa to be banned, Muslim immigration to be stopped and the construction of mosques to be halted.
It costs tax-payers more than half-a-million dollars for each asylum seeker detained on Manus Island and Nauru, a new report concludes.
With the One Nation leader to deliver her second maiden speech this afternoon, let's look back at her first from two decades ago.
'Yes', says the Treasurer; 'No', says his shadow. Big differences emerge during a rowdy question time.
It'll be three weeks before the Labor Party makes a decision on whether to hold a same sex marriage plebiscite, drawing fire from opponents.
It's a tough game politics - there's been plenty of ups and downs in Malcolm Turnbull's first year as prime minister.
The date has been set for a vote on legalising same sex marriage and the PM says Labor is standing in its way. Courtesy ABC News 24.
Watch the chaos during Senate question time as senator after senator withdraws calling Labor's Doug Cameron a grub.
The Government has been attacked over plans to give groups for and against a same sex marriage plebiscite millions of dollars to fund their campaigns.
The former shock jock uses his first parliamentary speech to argue for a publicly accessible register of convicted sex offenders.
Question time: Malcolm Turnbull declines to confirm or deny giving a commitment to publicly fund the 'No' campaign in a same-sex marriage plebiscite.
With nothing to debate, senators have given long winded speeches reflecting on their favourite TV shows, superfoods and the Aussie flag.
Marriage equality has dominated the start of another Parliamentary sitting week with calls again for a free vote rather than a plebiscite.
The former PM is reflecting on current PM Malcolm Turnbull's 12 months in the job and is more complimentary than other politicians.
The Government called a Royal Commission into youth detention in the NT based on a one sided TV news report, according to the former PM. Courtesy 2GB.
Attorney General George Brandis has been criticised by Mark Dreyfus for giving his son's lawyer and LNP donor a plum job. Courtesy Sky News.
Former PM Tony Abbott has joined in the call to ban foreign and other donations to political parties.
It's a year since Australia committed to resettle 12-thousand Syrian refugees, but critics say the process is too slow.
It's a tough game politics - there's been plenty of ups and downs in Malcolm Turnbull's first year as prime minister.
You know you've made it in politics when illustrators and cartoonists start lampooning you. Some of Fairfax's best.
Military escalation in the South China Sea is having a powerful influence on Australia's strategic environment, explains David Wroe.
A strong majority of Australians support same-sex marriage, but voters split along party lines when it comes to the best method of achieving it.
Why would the Coalition government cut Newstart? Fairfax's Peter Martin explains.
Just some of the hundreds of images captured by Fairfax photographers Andrew Meares and Alex Ellinghausen as the 45th parliament commences in Canberra.
Fairfax photographer Alex Ellinghausen covered every day of the 2016 election campaign - and captured it using snapchat.
Watch politicians share their experiences and offer up advice to the 48 brand new MPs embarking on life as a Federal Politician in Canberra.
Australia's intelligence agency - ASIO - has asked for detention powers without warrant from judge. Fairfax's David Wroe explains.
Should the new Reserve Bank governor stop targeting inflation and aim for growth instead? Peter Martin presents the case for change.
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