Michael Koziol is a journalist with Fairfax Media.
"The great risk is that law-abiding firearm owners will feel they haven't been consulted. They'll feel policymakers and lawmakers are making decisions in areas they don't fully understand."
The Australian public won't be consulted on the plan to boost security perimeters around much of Parliament House, with Parliament's presiding officers citing national security concerns.
"He's not a team player at all. We can't work with him, you can't reason with him," the One Nation leader says.
Since leaving the top job at David Jones two years ago, Paul Zahra has had a lot more time to work on his passions. Now he needs something else: money.
Embattled One Nation senator Rod Culleton has given the strongest indication yet he will quit Pauline Hanson's One Nation party if he survives a High Court challenge to his eligibility to serve in Parliament.
Indian energy giant has seemingly shot its own appeal for public funding in the foot.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is expected to speak with the global head of mining giant Adani on Monday amid mounting speculation the government will contribute $1 billion for a railway line to serve the forthcoming Carmichael coal mine.
Public hospitals, social housing and palliative care services are ripe for reforms to inject greater competition and private sector involvement, a Productivity Commission report has found.
Sam Dastyari is back - with a book to boot.
Summer is here, Parliament has risen and no doubt our more bookish leaders will use the long break to catch up on their reading and expand their horizons. It's only now, with the release of expenditure reports from the first half of the year, that we get a look at what politicians were reading last summer.
Search pagination
Save articles for later.
Subscribe for unlimited access to news. Login to save articles.
Return to the homepage by clicking on the site logo.