Scientist whose miracle made a paraplegic walk again named Australian of the Year
Alan Mackay-Sim helped achieve a feat described as "more impressive than man walking on the moon".
Tom McIlroy is a political reporter for Fairfax Media in the federal press gallery at Parliament House.
Alan Mackay-Sim helped achieve a feat described as "more impressive than man walking on the moon".
The death of Vicki Jellie's husband led her on a journey that has seen the fundraiser named Australia's Local Hero for 2017.
Architects have backed down on their opposition to a 2.6 metre fence outside Parliament, following a secret briefing.
Men were nominated at more than twice the rate of women, with no female nominations in six of 31 categories.
Allowing civil marriage celebrants, government employees and businesses exemptions from same-sex marriage laws would uphold discrimination and homophobic attitudes, advocates for gay and lesbian Australians have told a parliamentary inquiry.
Former senator Rodney Culleton has mounted an eleventh-hour effort to save his parliamentary career, seeking to appeal a Federal Court decision that rendered him bankrupt and demanding Senate President Stephen Parry immediately withdraw his declaration of a vacancy.
A leading international human rights advocacy group has slammed the Turnbull government's hardline and highly secretive offshore immigration detention regime and ongoing efforts to strengthen counter-terrorism laws in an annual review of practices in more than 90 countries around the world.
Former One Nation senator Rodney Culleton has threatened a High Court challenge to his disqualification from federal Parliament for being bankrupt.
Politics might be show business for ugly people - but new research suggests Australian MPs on the right are more attractive than those on the left.
Centrelink will resume sending out controversial debt recovery letters to thousands of Australians within days, despite an ongoing controversy.
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