Fergus Hunter is a political reporter for Fairfax Media in the federal press gallery at Parliament House
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has been warned he must embrace the political centre, rather than the far right, after voter anger at a preference deal between One Nation and the Liberal Party helped deliver a massive loss for the Liberals at the West Australian election.
Public health advocates have welcomed Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's renewed vaccinations push.
Federal politicians are lining up to declare One Nation's run of success over in the wake of the party's underwhelming result.
Greens senator Janet Rice has called for urgent government investment in better cycling infrastructure after a cyclist was hit and killed by a truck in Melbourne's inner-west on Friday night, close to the Victorian politician's home.
If you'd dropped into the Old Fitzroy Hotel in Woolloomooloo on Saturday afternoon, you may have stumbled upon an unexpected scene.
The official portrait of former speaker Peter Slipper will be revealed later this month after sitting in a Parliament House basement for over a year.
Immigration Minister Peter Dutton, seen as the chief government backer of a proposal to create a super-sized homeland security department, has articulated the intelligence-sharing rationale for the United States making a similar change and said Australia must continue to have a modern system that strives for "world's best practice".
"I sound like a wanker but I believe in this stuff".
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has refused to say whether he supports the Fair Work Commission's decision to cut penalty rates for hundreds of thousands of Australian workers, instead backing the independence of the body and indicating the government backs a transition that softens the blow for workers.
The outcome leaves Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull with an unclear path forward.
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