Amy Remeikis is political reporter based at Parliament House in Canberra
Labor has not given up its fight for a royal commission into the nation's banking sector, as the Big Four prepare to face the first of what Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has promised will be an annual accounting of their actions.
The storm – both real and political – continues to rage over South Australia, with Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg admitting initial inquiries had found renewable energy was not to blame for the statewide blackout, while refusing to back down from attacks on "aggressive" state Labor renewable energy targets.
There is no reason Australia can't have energy security and a network increasingly reliant on renewables, energy experts say, as the Federal Government steps up its attacks on Labor state governments' "aggressive" targets.
The nation's peak medical lobby group has raised concerns over a "lack of transparency" around the awarding of a $220 million government contract to Telstra to manage sensitive medical records.
Pauline Hanson said she believes the number of people who agree with her call for a ban on Muslim immigration to be much higher than 49 per cent, claiming respondents would have been "in fear to answer the question" honestly.
Attorney-General George Brandis has said the government will be open to compromising with Labor on the structure of the same-sex marriage plebiscite, if it means getting the vote through the Parliament.
Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott has told a group of European conservatives the migrant crisis afflicting the continent has the "look of a peaceful invasion" as he urged European leaders to adopt Australia's strict turn-back policy.
Malcolm Turnbull "has it in him" to be one of the nation's greatest prime ministers, Attorney-General George Brandis has said, comparing Mr Turnbull to Robert Menzies and John Howard.
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.
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