• Federal Politics

Watch the Deputy PM have a go at presenting a weather forecast.

• Federal Politics

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Defence Secretary James Mattis have vowed to strengthen the Australia-US alliance during AUSMIN talks in Sydney.

Calls from One Nation leader Pauline Hanson to "intern" those on the terror watch list invoke a dark history of detainment that stretches back to World War Two.

• Federal Politics

New vision has emerged up on Twitter of conservative commentator Andrew Bolt being attacked in Melbourne, shot by the attackers.

The infamous Watergate scandal that undid President Richard Nixon "pales" in comparison to President Donald Trump's links to Russia, says former US intelligence chief James Clapper.

Anyone would think we had all the time in the world to decide which carbon pricing model will work best for us. Artist: Matt Davidson.

• Federal Politics

See how the PM has changed his language when he talks about terror attacks.

• Interest Rates

The Reserve Bank leaves the cash rate at 1.5 per cent. Eryk Bagshaw explains the decision.

• Foreign Fighters

US and Australian Foreign and Defence ministers make no apology for killing their own nationals if they are fighting for Islamic State.

• Schools funding

Sarah Hanson-Young accuses Jacinta Collins of running "a protection racket for the Catholics" as a Senate committee grows heated.

• Economy

Australia may have enjoyed more than 25 years without a recession, but as Peter Martin explains, it's been a close run thing.

• Parliament

Anthony Albanese was once a question time star - now Barnaby Joyce has taken to ridiculing his absence from the dispatch box.

One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts attempts to rattle the experts by mentioning a hoax study claiming “penises cause climate change”.

• Climate Change

Donald Trump may take the US out of the Paris carbon reduction agreement, but Malcolm Turnbull says Australia remains committed.

Following ASIO boss Duncan Lewis' controversial statement that there was "no evidence" of a link between refugees and terrorism, Immigration Minister Peter Dutton jumped to his defence.

• Federal Politics

Despite a man getting a device through security at Melbourne airport and threatening to blow up a Malaysia Airlines plane, security procedures worked, according to the Transport minister.

You would think Adani would have given up on Australia's biggest coal mine by now. Artist: Matt Davidson

• NDIS

In 2013, Bill Shorten supported an across-the-board increase in the medicare levy. So why doesn't he support the government's NDIS funding proposal?

"You couldn't have asked for a better director than James Comey", the FBI director sacked by President Trump, says AFP boss Andrew Colvin.

How is that relevant? A Labor senator has been challenged after asking DFAT officials about money Foreign Minister Julie Bishop spent on flowers, because she's a woman.