Rachel Olding is a Reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald.
Police are investigating whether childcare subsidies allegedly obtained by fraud have been funnelled to terrorists overseas as a series of raids across Sydney led to charges against two men for defrauding the federal government.
There was mould on the walls, ice pipes and bongs thrown over her back fence and addicts assaulting her. But that wasn't the worst of Kailah Longbottom's housing woes.
The head of the largest Muslim association in the country has given a blistering speech to his community, attacking both sides of politics and the media for fostering the rise of far-right groups and Islamophobia.
A British-Australian company director who moved to Australia when he was seven had his dual citizenship stripped in a bungle that officials told him was part of a wider crackdown.
His new role requires him to oversee parliamentary standards. But federal MP Mal Brough is not yet out of the woods himself.
The Abbott government's long-term counter-terrorism strategy is missing one thing, experts say: the strategy itself.
A playboy doctor who fled Australia to join Islamic State said he anticipated an arrest warrant being issued for him and he has no plans to return to the country he "once loved so much".
Australians have largely switched off from the "death cult", a series of focus groups have found.
A counter-terrorism adviser says Tony Abbott's use of the phrase "death cult" is doing some of Islamic State's marketing for them.
Matthew Gardiner stunned his Labor Party colleagues around the country when he secretly disappeared from his Darwin home in January to fight against Islamic State.
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