Ebony Bowden is an entertainment reporter for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. She was previously a breaking news reporter for The New Daily and an intern with Al Jazeera in Kuala Lumpur.
Bill Shorten has been forced to distance himself from a CFMEU boss who threatened to reveal the home addresses of construction industry inspectors, as the government flagged it would refer the unionist to police.
Judges has hit back at several Turnbull government frontbenchers, warning they have come "dangerously close" to contempt of court after they accused the Victorian courts of being too soft on terror offenders.
Federal Liberal MPs Tim Wilson and Andrew Hastie appear in a debate sponsored by the Bible Society of Australia and Coopers Brewery.
Former Labor speaker Anna Burke's seat of Chisholm has fallen to the Liberal Party for the first time since 1998.