Amy Remeikis is the social affairs and communications reporter for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, based in Parliament House
 As the Fitzroy River inches closer to a nine-metre peak that will swamp Queensland homes and businesses, 1500 kilometres away in Canberra, hundreds of Centrelink staff are swinging into action.
The eye of the storm may have passed, but the business community is bracing itself for the economic hit ex-tropical cyclone Debbie will bring in its wake.
A major review of the mental health services available to serving and former members of the military has produced some alarming findings.
It is the term du jour, thrown around by everyone from Donald Trump to Australian politicians, unhappy with how a particular news story paints them.
A $5 billion infrastructure fund heralded by the Turnbull government as a jewel of the 2015 budget has so far spent more on salaries for board members than on actual projects.
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop and Justice Minister Michael Keenan have moved to quell a backbench revolt over a China-Australia extradition treaty.
Pauline Hanson has compared Islam to a disease Australians need to vaccinate themselves against, a comment described by the deputy prime minister as "bat poo crazy".
The former minister has been called to appear as a witness at a Crime and Corruption Commission public hearing.
It wasn't the overdue bills Jacqui Lambie was thinking about as she delivered a speech that gripped Parliament.
Barnaby Joyce has broken with cabinet solidarity to blast the Liberal Party.
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