Fergus Hunter is a breaking news reporter for Fairfax Media in the federal press gallery at Parliament House
Coalition MPs have questioned whether influential Labor senator Sam Dastyari should resign from Parliament following the revelation that he asked a communist-linked Australian-Chinese donor to foot an expenses bill after he exceded publicly funded travel entitlements.
Shadow treasurer Chris Bowen says that Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull lacks moral authority and economic leadership following revelations in a new book that he and Treasurer Scott Morrison supported a crackdown on negative gearing but were rolled by cabinet.
Labor frontbencher Tony Burke has rebuked the government's approach to budget repair, accusing them of lying about the detail of the centrepiece omnibus savings bill that they have challenged the opposition to support.
Treasurer Scott Morrison and broadcaster Ray Hadley have unloaded on each other over the workload of politicians, with the outspoken host alleging federal politics is populated by "bludgers and leaners".
"The only thing lacking here is Malcolm Turnbull's courage," Labor's Senate leader Penny Wong has declared, pushing back against criticisms from "so-called moderates" in the Coalition towards the opposition for challenging the same-sex marriage plebiscite legislation.
Labor frontbencher Anthony Albanese has opened up about the childhood discovery that his father was alive and the search, decades later, for the man he knew almost nothing about.
The government's proposed legislation targeting the troubles of Victoria's Country Fire Authority looks set to live or die on whatever position Pauline Hanson's One Nation takes.
Bank profits and the number of complaints against them have both skyrocketed in recent years according to new research that questions the adequacy of "cop out" bodies to keep financial institutions in check.
A coalition of Australia's welfare groups has written to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten pleading for the preservation of the modest "energy supplement" paid to some of Australia's poorest people.
Labor has seized upon the delay of the same-sex marriage plebiscite to 2017, accusing the Coalition of breaking an election promise and reiterating the call for a free vote among MPs to decide the matter this year.
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