Adam Gartrell is the National Political Correspondent for The Sun-Herald and The Sunday Age
Evelyn had a dream. After fleeing an abusive marriage and enduring a bruising custody battle she wanted to build a new home - a new life, a new future - for herself and her two-year-old son.
One of the nine Australian men detained in Malaysia for publicly stripping down to their underwear at the Formula One has quit his job in cabinet minister Christopher Pyne's office.
Bill Shorten will seek to convince crossbenchers of the merits of a Royal Commission into the banks in a series of rare one-on-one meetings.
Retired federal politicians will get bigger pensions and more free travel paid by the taxpayer if the High Court rules in their favour this week.
Turnbull government MP Stuart Robert has close ties to an African church that supports harsh anti-gay laws and is run by a man described as "one of the most homophobic people in the world".
Immigration Minister Peter Dutton's army of spin doctors and communications staff is costing taxpayers more than $8 million a year.
The Nelson Mandela Foundation has hit out at Liberal Party members who used the anti-apartheid icon's image on leaflets that make false claims about the dangers of same-sex marriage.
Pauline Hanson says she would be prepared to put aside her personal opposition to same-sex marriage and vote for it in the Senate - but only if the Australian people vote in favour of it at a plebiscite.
Almost 70 per cent of Australians with private health insurance have considered ditching or downgrading their cover in the last year in the face of relentless price rises and diminishing value for money, polling has found.
He was a member of Tony Abbott's prime ministerial Praetorian guard to the very end: a hardline cigar-chomping conservative who did all he could to keep Malcolm Turnbull out of The Lodge.
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