Bernardi, Macdonald team up to boot former PMs off Life Gold Pass
Coalition defector Cory Bernardi will team up with rogue Liberal Ian Macdonald to get former prime ministers booted off the Life Gold Pass.
Adam Gartrell is the National Political Correspondent for The Sun-Herald and The Sunday Age
Coalition defector Cory Bernardi will team up with rogue Liberal Ian Macdonald to get former prime ministers booted off the Life Gold Pass.
The Turnbull government's plan to link disability funding to welfare cuts has backfired spectacularly.
The Turnbull government is ramping up the pressure on Labor and the Senate crossbench to support its welfare cuts by tying the savings to the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
The Turnbull government is defending an unprecedented West Australian preference deal that will see the Liberals put One Nation ahead of the Nationals.
An unlikely coalition of energy producers, business groups and environmentalists is calling on politicians on all sides to ditch their "partisan antics"Â on energy policy and work together.
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.
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