Tom McIlroy is a political reporter for Fairfax Media in the federal press gallery at Parliament House.
A 35-day delay to ship capping technology to Australia in the event of a major oil spill has prompted warnings the Great Australian Bight could suffer an environmental disaster to rival the 2010 Deepwater Horizon catastrophe.
Nearly 200 doctors and health workers caring for Australians of diverse sexuality and gender identity have joined calls for the Turnbull government to ditch its planned plebiscite on same-sex marriage.
Malcolm and Lucy Turnbull have chosen more than 50 artworks to display at Parliament House and the prime minister's official residences.
Treasurer Scott Morrison says the government won't ditch plans for a plebiscite on same-sex marriage, despite a new poll showing more Australians support a vote in Parliament.
Kevin Rudd had begun secret discussions to create a new national cultural institution dedicated to Indigenous Australians before he was dumped as prime minister.
A Turnbull government MP under fire for using taxpayer funds to attend his own wedding is facing fresh questions.
A Western Australian Coalition MP says he charged taxpayers thousands for travel to his own wedding in Melbourne by mistake.
Scrapping public funding for both sides of the proposed same-sex marriage plebiscite would be a "necessary step" to win Labor's support - but still may not be enough, shadow attorney-general Mark Dreyfus says.
Malcolm Turnbull is coming under renewed pressure to drop plans for a plebiscite on same-sex marriage as leading LGBTIQ Australians join a new campaign calling for Parliament to block a national vote.
Former prime ministers Tony Abbott and John Howard have warned against a treaty with Indigenous Australians, arguing it would be divisive and would fail to win public support.
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