Anna Henderson is the digital political reporter at ABC's Parliament House bureau. Anna has worked as a television, radio and online reporter at Federal Parliament since 2012, and also covers the national Indigenous Affairs round. She was first employed at ABC News as a cadet in 2008 and has previously been based in Darwin and Alice Springs as a TV and radio reporter for the national broadcaster. She started her career at a regional newspaper in New South Wales covering politics and crime.
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| UpdatedThe head of the PM's Indigenous Advisory Council Warren Mundine launches a vicious tirade against the Federal Government over its announcement of a new inquiry into Indigenous imprisonment, querying which "dickhead" thought it up.
Topics: federal-government, government-and-politics, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, royal-commissions, prisons-and-punishment, australia
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| UpdatedThe incarceration rate of Aboriginal Australians is a "national tragedy", Attorney-General George Brandis says, as he announces a new examination of the factors leading to the overrepresentation of Indigenous people in prison.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, community-and-society, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-policy, law-crime-and-justice, australia
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| UpdatedIndigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion faces a scathing interrogation in Senate Estimates over conflicting statements he made about his knowledge of the abuse of children in the NT prison system.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, government-and-politics, federal-government, royal-commissions, australia, nt
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| UpdatedA telephone hotline, credited with saving the lives of Aboriginal people in custody in NSW will be rolled out nationally, Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion says.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, law-crime-and-justice, australia, nsw
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| UpdatedCrossbench senator David Leyonhjelm says he dealt directly with Immigration Minister Peter Dutton on a controversial shotgun, despite earlier saying he didn't.
Topics: federal-parliament, parliament, federal-government, government-and-politics, australia
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More than 100 days after the election, Defence moves to clarify how military responsibilities have been divvied up between the three Turnbull Government frontbenchers managing the portfolio.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, australia
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| UpdatedThe Federal Opposition grills the Department of Foreign Affairs over why it flew more than 20 staff from Canberra to Paris for a conference that focused on saving money.
Topics: foreign-affairs, government-and-politics, australia, france
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| UpdatedThe Attorney-General disputed his senior legal advisor's concerns about the level of control coming from the Minister's office.
Topics: federal-government, government-and-politics, law-crime-and-justice, federal-parliament
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| UpdatedThe lifting of a photography ban in the Upper House is being heralded by politicians and free press advocates as a win for public scrutiny of the Parliament.
Topics: federal-parliament, government-and-politics, photography, print-media, australia, canberra-2600
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| UpdatedA Northern Territory barrister representing teenager Jack Roper, who was among a group teargassed at the Don Dale youth detention centre, blasts Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion over his proposal to create a prison farm for young detainees.
Topics: government-and-politics, community-and-society, youth, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, nt, australia
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| UpdatedFederal Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion puts forward a proposal to the NT Government to remove children from juvenile detention centres, suggesting a well-known pastoral station as an alternative place for young offenders to serve their sentences.
Topics: youth, prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, royal-commissions, federal-government, nt, mataranka-0852
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| UpdatedThe head of ANZ says the bank should not have lent close to $1 billion to well-known Perth identities Pankaj and Radhika Oswal for the construction of a fertiliser plant.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, government-and-politics, australia, wa
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| UpdatedThere was a reduction in wind farm generation in the lead-up to last week's statewide blackout in South Australia, but more analysis is required to discern what caused the drop, a preliminary report into the matter says.
Topics: weather, storm-disaster, storm-event, sa, adelaide-5000
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| UpdatedCommonwealth Bank boss Ian Narev tells a parliamentary inquiry the bank has "not seen the need" to sack any staff members over scandals involving insurance arm CommInsure.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, banking, consumer-finance, government-and-politics, australia
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Government MP Stuart Robert rejects Labor's allegation of "cash for comment" over donations from a property developer he had previously defended in Parliament.
Topics: federal-government, local-government, liberal-national-party-queensland, australia, qld
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| UpdatedShadow education minister Tanya Plibersek demands the Federal Government reveal which private schools are "overfunded" as Labor accuses the Coalition of holding a 'hit list' of schools to target.
Topics: schools, education, federal-government, government-and-politics, australia
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| UpdatedThe highly charged school funding debate is back on the national agenda as the Turnbull Government seeks a new deal. Brush up on the key issues here.
Topics: federal---state-issues, federal-government, government-and-politics, education, schools, budget, australia
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| UpdatedFederal Education Minister Simon Birmingham has flagged potential funding cuts to some private schools, saying some wealthy schools receive too much public money.
Topics: education, government-and-politics, federal-parliament, federal-government, australia
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| UpdatedThe much-hyped same-sex marriage plebiscite meeting between Attorney-General George Brandis and his Opposition counterpart Mark Dreyfus ends with no sign of a compromise in sight.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, marriage, gays-and-lesbians, community-and-society, australia
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| UpdatedAustralia's longest-serving federal resources minister Ian Macfarlane rejects suggestions of a conflict of interest after taking up a job with Queensland's peak mining group.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, business-economics-and-finance, mining-environmental-issues, mining-industry, australia, qld
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| UpdatedLabor lays out a number of starting points for negotiations on the Government's stalled plan to hold a same-sex marriage plebiscite ahead of a planned meeting with the Attorney-General in Brisbane next week.
Topics: federal-government, government-and-politics, gays-and-lesbians, marriage
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| UpdatedThe Federal Government wants to overhaul the Gonski school funding model it says was "corrupted" by the former Labor government.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, federal---state-issues, education, australia
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Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion declares a "cracker of a meeting" with Indigenous representatives who have previously been highly critical of his management of the portfolio.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, government-and-politics, federal-government, australia
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| UpdatedIndigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion will face some of his most vocal and influential critics, when he holds a workshop with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders leaders on the Redfern Statement.
Topics: indigenous-policy, government-and-politics, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, federal-government, australia
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| UpdatedAustralia will continue conducting air strikes in Syria despite being part of a botched operation that killed nearly 100 Syrian soldiers who had been fighting the Islamic State group, Defence Minister Marise Payne says.
Topics: government-and-politics, world-politics, unrest-conflict-and-war, defence-forces, australia, syrian-arab-republic