Amy Remeikis is political reporter based at Parliament House in Canberra
It hasn't been a great start to the year for the Turnbull government, with a new poll showing politician entitlements and the Centrelink debt recovery system controversies have taken their toll.
Don't worry – 2017 will be better than you think.
More than 80 per cent of Australians believe there is corruption in federal politics and want a new independent watchdog set up to stamp it out.
When naming the rooms in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade building, its chiefs had a great idea - honour the many distinguished diplomats and public servants who had dedicated their lives to bettering Australia.
Queensland has changed since Pauline Hanson and her promises first became a political force 20 years ago. It seems One Nation has not.
A New Zealand politician has labelled senator Malcolm Roberts's call for sanctions against New Zealanders in Australia "absolutely nuts", passing it off as using "the politics of hate and division for self promotion".
One Nation has picked a fight with one of Australia's closest allies, calling for tighter immigration controls for those across the ditch, after New Zealand co-sponsored a United Nation's resolution censuring Israel.
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has distanced herself from a potential party candidate, after he was involved in a scuffle with rogue West Australian senator Rod Culleton.
The Turnbull government may be looking at ways to get more regional and rural Australians into private health cover, but the nation's peak medical body says the priority should be more access to medical services, and more support and infrastructure for bush doctors.
Labor has doubled down on its opposition to Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, a day after the Turnbull government broke with the Obama administration over a controversial UN resolution.
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