What the hell is going on with the Nationals?
Is anyone checking the forms in National Party HQ? Does anyone do the due diligence? These are not unfair questions.
James Massola is chief political correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, based at Parliament House
Is anyone checking the forms in National Party HQ? Does anyone do the due diligence? These are not unfair questions.
The Turnbull government may need just one more vote in the Senate to pass its $8.2 billion Medicare levy.
The Turnbull government is optimistic it can strike a shock deal with the Senate crossbench and pass the $7.8 billion Medicare levy
Coalition MP Ann Sudmalis has moved to quash doubts about her citizenship, issuing a statement late on Tuesday that the UK Home Office had assured her she did not, and never had, held British citizenship.
The Turnbull government could unilaterally refer four Labor MPs facing questions over dual citizenship to the High Court.
Labor is likely to back proposed laws that will set the ground rules for public debate about legalising same-sex marriage, but it is demanding acting Special Minister of State Mathias Cormann release the legislation as soon as possible.
High Court challenges to the same-sex marriage postal survey have a 50-50 chance of success, according to Labor's legal affairs spokesman, Mark Dreyfus.
"The moral in this is that all nuclear proliferation is bad and dangerous, particularly in the hands of outlier regimes like North Korea."
Another week, another dangerous escalation of tensions between North Korea and the United States.
Bill Shorten says Malcolm Turnbull will be personally responsible for "every hurtful bit of filth" unleashed by public debate on the same-sex marriage postal survey.
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