Politics live: Nick Xenophon says government's welfare changes 'too harsh'
It's Valentine's Day but there's not a lot of love being sprinkled about after the Nick Xenophon Team knocked back the government's omnibus reform package.
Stephanie Peatling is a senior writer for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age
It's Valentine's Day but there's not a lot of love being sprinkled about after the Nick Xenophon Team knocked back the government's omnibus reform package.
Once again One Nation is the talk of Canberra as the fallout from the Liberals' decision to preference the party continues.
Liberal Party defector Cory Bernardi has offered a half-hearted criticism of comments made by former Liberal Party MP Ross Cameron.
The last day of the first week back and everyone is recovering from yesterday's heightened emotions.
It's day 2 of the school year, the government thinks it has a childcare and Derryn Hinch is throwing his weight around.
Rats in the ranks, defection, intrigue - Parliament is back for the year.
It's the two word term du jour - fake news - and Australian politicians are bandying it about with abandon. But does it mean what they think it means?
There were only a handful of witnesses to the conversation Donald Trump and Malcolm Turnbull. So who leaked it?
The scale of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's personal donation to the troubled Liberal Party election campaign will be kept secret for another year.
On Monday, more than 113 years since the first chief justice of the High Court was sworn in and 30 years after the first woman sat on its bench, Justice Kiefel was sworn in as the court's first female chief justice.
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