'Pollies don't get particularly well paid': MP protests axing of Gold Pass
A Coalition senator is threatening to vote against his own government's plan to axe the notorious Life Gold Pass.
Adam Gartrell is the National Political Correspondent for The Sun-Herald and The Sunday Age
A Coalition senator is threatening to vote against his own government's plan to axe the notorious Life Gold Pass.
Turnbull government minister David Gillespie's real estate dealings have cast a constitutional cloud over his political career.
The government has scrapped the Life Gold Pass for former MPs, and family reunion benefits could be next on the chopping block.
While Bernardi hopes to build a new nation-wide conservative movement recent political history suggests his defection is more likely to end in tears.
The parliamentary perk that gives retired politicians free business-class travel on the taxpayer will be scrapped.
Malcolm Turnbull has dismissed suggestions Australia will be indebted to US President Donald Trump if he proceeds with the refugee resettlement deal, insisting there is no quid pro quo for future military support.
Voters in a swathe of Coalition seats believe federal government MPs should be given a free vote on same-sex marriage.
What's in a name?
One of the Liberal Party's top fundraising bodies has quietly begun bankrolling the organisations behind two of the Coalition's biggest crossbench supporters.
More than $70 million that flowed to the Liberal and Labor parties ahead of last year's federal election is considered untraceable "dark money".
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