Amy Remeikis is political reporter based at Parliament House in Canberra
Outspoken Liberal-National MP George Christensen has taken aim  at Queensland's state Labor Government for "legalising 50-year-old men being able to sleep with 16-year-old boys", after it became the last Australian jurisdiction to standardised the age of consent.
The Prime Minister is trying to broker a deal - with his own MPs mind you - on superannuation.
Minister for Women Michaelia Cash said she "can't" understand why people would be upset at her response to Pauline Hanson, after she hugged the new senator following her maiden speech.
There's a soundtrack to tragedy. For Julian Leeser, it was the sound of his mother's footsteps coming down the hall.
Greens Senators have walked out of Pauline Hanson's incendiary first speech to the Senate, where she claimed the nation was "in danger of being swamped by Muslims".
It's a birthday - of sorts - for the Prime Minister who is celebrating not with a cake but legislation to bring about the plebiscite on same-sex marriage.
Just one day after vowing to use his parliamentary privilege only as a last resort, Derryn Hinch has named another sex offender in the Senate.
The terms of the same-sex marriage plebiscite will be revealed today. They are sure to further fan the flames of what is already a difficult issue for the Coalition.
Derryn Hinch has fulfilled his promise to "name names" in the Senate.
The rush to find a politically expedient solution to the current donations furore could potentially kill off any meaningful reform before it even begins, constitutional experts have warned.
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