Matthew Knott

Matthew Knott

Matthew Knott is the education and Senate correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, based in Parliament House

Former prime minister Tony Abbott holds a late night press conference following the Coalition's marathon party room ...

Will Tony Abbott's late-night words come back to haunt him?

Liberal MPs are preparing to turn Tony Abbott's words against him as they push to ditch the plebiscite.

Kerb enthusiasm: Labor says it needs to accept the "realities on the ground" of the National Broadband Network.

Labor to embrace NBN rollout compromise

Labor is preparing to put a compromise technology known as fibre-to-the-kerb at the centre of its plans for the National Broadband Network should it win the next election.

George Christensen says the Turnbull government should hold a postal vote plebiscite on same-sex marriage.

Conservatives go postal on same-sex marriage

Prominent conservatives within the Coalition are split over whether to hold a postal vote plebiscite on same-sex marriage.

Tony Abbott's influence alone will probably be enough to prevent the agility and rationality Malcolm Turnbull needs to ...

'Party of freedom and of the individual': PM backs Abbott

Tony Abbott has applauded Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull for offering "unequivocal support" for his bid to overhaul the way the NSW Liberal Party preselects its candidates.