Senate 'won't rise' until company tax cuts are dealt with: Cormann
The federal government's attempts to deliver massive tax cuts to big business will come to a head on Friday.
Tom McIlroy is a political reporter for Fairfax Media in the federal press gallery at Parliament House.
The federal government's attempts to deliver massive tax cuts to big business will come to a head on Friday.
A Turnbull government plan to ratify the China-Australia extradition treaty has collapsed, with mounting opposition from the Coalition backbench causing the government to withdraw the treaty from Parliament.
The federal government has offered to open access to protected forestsĀ and review the status of an endangered native possum as part of an appeal to save Victoria's Heyfield timberĀ mill from closing.
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson is threatening to hold the government to ransom over its planned $50 billion corporate tax cut plan this week.
Nearly half of all Liberals and 55 per cent of Labor MPs have previously worked as political advisers or government staffers.
Women make up 45 per cent of executives at the ABC, while just 12 per cent of senior staff come from non-English speaking backgrounds.
Three specialist beehives are being installed in Canberra as part of efforts to boost bee populations in Australia.
Vitamin and supplement giant Swisse has asked the federal government to change the rules for advertising of Australia's $4 billion complementary medicine market.
Some of Australia's biggest corporations and business leaders are being bullied by activist groups into supporting same-sex marriage laws, Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has warned.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says he doubts the government can work effectively with new ACTU boss Sally McManus after her comments that union members should breakĀ "unjust laws".
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