Greens leader Richard Di Natale has called on Malcolm Turnbull to stand up to his party's "right wing dinosaurs" and legalise marriage equality, warning Turnbull will lose the next election if he doesn't.

At least four Liberal MPs thrown out by voters at the election have picked up plum jobs as taxpayer-funded advisers to their former colleagues.

Gazal and Jalil, Shadi, Mirza and Shahin, Firuz, Laleh and Nahal, and Amir, Yasmin and Darius have revealed their disturbing stories.

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Pauline Hanson says she is emboldened by the growing support for One Nation as it prepares to field candidates at the Western Australia and Queensland elections, arguing the party continues to confront issues the major parties won't touch.

'Noodle bowl' of agreements is difficult for business to navigate

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Victorian Labor senator Gavin Marshall has declared war on frontbench colleague Andrew Giles, revealing he plans to back a preselection challenge to the Scullin MP and accusing him of lying over a plot to remove his ally Kim Carr.

Testy officials from the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet dismissed security experts' concerns about the use of WhatsApp.

Department moves to protect Border Force public servants' mental health.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has accused Labor of risking national security as it steps up its attack on Attorney-General George Brandis over his public brawl with the government's chief legal adviser.

Bob Day has made the shock announcement that he will resign from the Senate after his building company went into liquidation.

Former Coalition MP Wyatt Roy has been cleared of any wrongdoing after his trip to conflict-ridden Iraq, with the Australian Federal Police declining to investigate beyond a preliminary examination of publicly available information.

Labor Senator Penny Wong accused Stephen Parry of employing "a mate who lost his seat".

Pauline Hanson's One Nation party has quadrupled its primary vote since the July election, a new poll suggests, with their support in Queensland reaching 10 per cent.

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Malcolm Turnbull has been drawn into a deepening row between the country's two most senior lawyers after he was asked to confirm the Solicitor-General ticked off on a controversial terror bill.

Malcolm Turnbull dined with Rupert Murdoch's senior Australian editors in Canberra on Sunday.

Cabinet secretary Arthur Sinodinos has launched an attack on Labor's choice of former union official Kimberley Kitching​ to replace Stephen Conroy in the Senate.

Labor's Tanya Plibersek says the opposition could push Malcolm Turnbull to breaking point over action on same-sex marriage, even if it costs him the prime ministership.

Labor rachets up its rhetoric against a Trump presidency with Tanya Plibersek and Penny Wong criticising the Republican candidate.

In what's been branded a "national shame" and a "dismal failure" by our politicians, new research shows 17.4 per cent of all Aussies aged under 15 are living in poverty

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Days after charging taxpayers for flights to his own wedding, West Australian Liberal Steve Irons billed the Commonwealth to travel to Melbourne's Spring Racing Carnival – part of nearly $17,000 in costs for unexplained travel and electorate business on the other side of the country. 

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What if marriage equality is suddenly three years away at best? Two terms? A decade?

Senator Bob Day's NSW building company has applied to have its licence renewed - even though it has ceased all work on the homes of its 61 clients because it has no cash.

Australians want Malcolm Turnbull's government to negotiate with Labor and Nick Xenophon to get its agenda through Parliament rather than the Greens or One Nation.

The Turnbull government's plans to introduce laws to keep unrepentant terrorists in jail beyond their sentences could be delayed after police raised concerns that the proposed laws aren't co-ordinated with existing bail-like regimes for terrorists.

The government's top legal adviser says he will ignore a "radical" directive from Attorney-General George Brandis.

Anti-Islam, anti-immigration party registered despite objections.

"Justin would be considered first class; Brandis would be considered a plodder": the feud has set tongues wagging at the Sydney bar.

They are the set-piece photo opportunities that prime ministers will fly across the continent to take part in.

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Tony Abbott said people who think his reform push is a Trojan horse for his own leadership ambitions were "being neurotic".