Tom McIlroy is a political reporter for Fairfax Media in the federal press gallery at Parliament House.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says "masses of evidence" exists to support a reduction to some penalty rates by the Fair Work Commission, agreeing the move will lead to job creation.
A new report says high drug prices paid by Australians could be lowered through changes to government policy, after $1.2 billion in potential savings to the health budget were lost in just the past four years.
Treasurer Scott Morrison says the government is developing a package of reforms to address housing affordability.
Mining magnate and philanthropist Andrew Forrest says Australia's corporate bosses have been put on notice after the largest ever contract by a single company to promote Indigenous employment was signed in Canberra on Thursday.
"Doing a job like this, you're in the inner-circle where it's like a different world altogether."
The Turnbull government has begun to make a case for lowering penalty rates. When it stops talking about itself.
The man who allegedly exploded seven gas cylinders outside the Australian Christian Lobby's Canberra offices last year was attempting to die by suicide and not targeting the activist group.
For some it's the symbol of gay and lesbian progress and the fight for equality, but for Liberal culture warrior Eric Abetz it's the flag of a hostile nation which has declared war on Australia.
The federal government won't reveal the cost of a controversial security fence being installed outside Canberra's Parliament House because the price tag could aid a terrorist attack.
Tony Abbott has pledged his "full support" for Malcolm Turnbull, just hours after launching his strongest attack on the government and calling for a range of conservative policy changes.
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