Adam Gartrell is the health and industrial relations correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, based in Parliament House
The nation's most respected constitutional law experts won't dare predict how the High Court is likely to rule on Labor's high stakes challenge against a sitting Turnbull government minister but believe it has a chance of succeeding.
If David Gillespie is forced from Parliament it could be the end of the Turnbull government.
Defence chiefs have sought to reassure Australians that North Korea's new long-range missiles pose "very little risk" to the nation's north.
The federal government was warned more than three years ago of security deficiencies surrounding personal Medicare data.
The Turnbull government insists "traditional" criminals - rather than sophisticated hackers - are likely to blame for selling Medicare numbers on the internet.
The head of the federal government's Australian Border Force has left active duty following an external investigation.
"Africa made its own problems. Quit having ten kids. Famine is nature's way of saying there are too many people. Stop reproducing."
One of the Turnbull government MPs pushing for the introduction of same-sex marriage will launch a new Liberal Party gay pride group that is by a top adviser to minister Christopher Pyne.
Sufferers of a rare blood cell cancer will get cheap access to a new drug after an unprecedented move by the Turnbull government.
Greens senator Lee Rhiannon and her hardline supporters in NSW will resist a federal push to reform the party's rules, setting the stage for more bitter infighting in the divided party.
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