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The post-politics adventures of a 'liberated' Wyatt Roy have developed something of a cult following.

Streamlining complaints under controversial provisions of the Human Rights Act would avoid long delays in cases like cartoonist Bill Leak and students at the Queensland University of Technology, Liberal backbench newcomer Julian Leeser said on Friday. 

The world can't afford to be building new fossil fuel-burn plants, a UN scientist says.

Dudded creditors are are weighing up whether to go after up to $2 million in loans and donations made to Family First.

The parliamentary friends of gun control aims to ensure debate is informed by evidence and facts.

Firebrand One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has gone to ground amid a push to oust West Australian senator Rod Culleton from Parliament and fresh warnings the resurgent party could come unstuck by its own ineffective vetting.

A watershed moment in the push to wind back racial discrimination laws is set to unfold on Friday.

The Turnbull Government is under pressure to explain why it gave $2 million to a small trades training college in suburban Adelaide linked to financially-stricken former senator Bob Day.

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"I've never struck anyone with his strange attitude, I'll say," says tow truck driver John Dunn.

Australia has provided wide-ranging training, support and assistance for Philippine police at the centre of president Rodrigo Duterte's highly-contentious crackdown on drugs.

The Turnbull government's legislative agenda looks to be in limbo as potential High Court challenges against two senators hold up the introduction of key industrial relations legislation. 

Baird government sets an 'amazing' goal, breaking ranks with its federal counterpart.

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Tony Abbott is flying to Port Moresby where he will meet with Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O'Neill and a group of Australian Federal Police officers he deployed to the Pacific nation during his time as prime minister.

Public Service Commissioner John Lloyd's power grab a 'challenge to ABC's independence'.

Questions over the eligibility of a second crossbench senator in as many days have plunged the nation's upper house into chaos and forced the federal government to refer both cases to the High Court for adjudication.

Data held by corporations on consumers would become the property of those consumers for the first time.

ABC chairman lashes out at the Turnbull government, accusing it of posing a "fundamental challenge to the independence of the ABC".

The High Court will be asked to examine the election of a second senator, One Nation's Rod Culleton, in a move that could prove another setback for the Turnbull government.

A new report by Australian investigators into the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 effectively rules out the possibility of a controlled descent into the Indian Ocean.

Rookie email error shares hundred of email addresses – twice.

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The Abbott government approved Bob Day's potentially unconstitutional office deal against the advice of its own bureaucrats.

The former Family First senator first said he would resign on October 17, after his failing building company was placed in liquidation. He then delayed his resignation and said he would seek to vote with the government in the final three weeks of Parliament for 2016. On Tuesday, Mr Day's resignation brought to a head concerns about a potential breach of section 44(v) of the constitution, relating to an indirect pecuniary interest over the ownership of Mr Day's electorate office in Adelaide.

The Senate is back in the news. But how much do you really know about what it does, and who is in it? 

The Turnbull government has defended its handling of questions about former Family First senator Bob Day's eligibility to serve in Parliament, after receiving expert legal advice last week.

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Kevin Rudd has ripped into Malcolm Turnbull over the government's new asylum seeker laws.

Another rejection of Coalition's industrial policy

The Turnbull government's ability to negotiate controversial legislation through the Senate has been thrown into doubt.

A 'disappointed' Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion says he won't make way for former prime minister Tony Abbott.

The United Nations says it is "profoundly concerned" about the Coalition's proposed lifetime ban on refugees returning to Australia, moves which Malcolm Turnbull says are necessary to protect humanity.