Nick O'Malley is a senior writer and a former US correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.
Stephen Conroy is hardly the first elected public servant to augment his or her generous publicly-funded superannuation scheme like this. But for some reason, the Conroy example smells worse than others.
In an election where the boundaries between victory and defeat have blurred, one clear winner was Rebekha Sharkie.
Speaking during a victory party in Adelaide Nick Xenophon has refused to declare which party he would support in the event of a hung parliament.
Rebekha Sharkie has become the first member of the Nick Xenophon Team to take a seat in the lower house, taking Mayo from the one-time Liberal Party minister Jamie Briggs.
Less than a day before polls open Nick Xenophon – buzzing through Adelaide in his tiny, filthy Toyota Yaris to his last press conference of the campaign – insists he will emerge a king-maker on Saturday night.
If political campaigns have seasons, the last week is the winter, and it has come. Get ready for an ugly week.
With luck - and preference deals - some micro-parites might have a chance of winning a Senate spot. Here's your guide to the fringe views that might soon be aired on the national stage.
Critics condemn religious group as reactionary lobby group funded by the super-rich.
Malcolm Turnbull has used his key speech in Washington, DC, to reject the notion that the world order that has been underpinned by American strength was fraying.
The Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, was welcomed to the White House by a Marine Corp honour guard on a freezing Washington, DC, morning, before sitting down for a 90-minute meeting followed by lunch with the President, Barack Obama.
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