Labor demands Matt Canavan documents while its MPs refuse to provide proof
Leading Labor figures are calling for confirmation Coalition MPs are eligible to sit in Parliament.
Leading Labor figures are calling for confirmation Coalition MPs are eligible to sit in Parliament.
One Nation senator's latest claim stands in stark contrast to previous public assertions he has only ever been an Australian citizen.
Former resources minister Matt Canavan says he has not breached section 44 of the constitution, but refused to release documents relating to his mother's application for his Italian citizenship.
''I have learned that you need to think about what you say and filter your words so that you don't hurt others.''
Some countries face 300 years of gender pay inequity, but Australia could see a pay gap until 2067.
Turnbull government calls on China to do more to pressure North Korea to drop its nuclear ambitions as reports for further nuclear tests circulate.
One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts is under mounting pressure to prove he's eligible to stay in Federal Parliament.
After losing his luggage, comparing the hongi to a headbutt and being upstaged by a rare lizard in New Zealand, Boris Johnson is pleased to be in Australia.
Australia's top spy has warned a 4000 kilometre-long cable could be torpedoed over Chinese firm Huawei's involvement.
Fears are growing that the dual citizenship crisis could take down other MPs, threatening the government's majority.
Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe has attempted to hose down talk of a hike in interest rates, saying Australia won't be blindly following central banks overseas.
Confusion over section 44 of the constitution threatens to obliterate confidence in the finely balanced 45th Parliament.
Australia's major banks fear a royal commission will hurt customers and investors, Anna Bligh has warned.
Federal-state tensions over water issues have escalated with South Australia demanding Barnaby Joyce, the federal water minister, drop his nomination of an irrigation lobbyist to the Murray Darling Basin Authority's board.
Barnaby Joyce says Matt Canavan's mother was "at her wit's end" that her son's promising political career had now stalled.
Could a gay or lesbian Australian reach the top of politics today?
A top NSW bureaucrat was on Tuesday refusing calls to stand down despite allegedly offering privileged access to government documents to irrigation lobbyists.
The Queensland senator is a close political ally of Barnaby Joyce and is seen as a rising star in the Nationals.
Immigration officials helped conduct interviews for possible family reunions from Nauru and Manus Island, the United Nations refugee agency has said, appearing to bolster its claim the Turnbull government was considering resettling some refugees.
The Australian Conservatives has raised three-quarters of a million dollars, primarily from grassroots supporters.
National Mental Health Commission chairman Allan Fels has called for a radical rethink of the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
Liberal MPs are preparing to turn Tony Abbott's words against him as they push to ditch the plebiscite.
Andrew Bartlett says he is waiting for the Court of Disputed Returns to officially make a ruling on Ms Waters' position.
A new secretary for the Department of Environment and Energy will be appointed after September.
The Berejiklian government needs to refer the issues of water theft and industry collusion to the corruption watchdog, green groups say.
This is the first time China's People's Liberal Army Navy has been known to carry out such open surveillance off our coast.
Same-sex marriage is further inflaming tensions inside the Turnbull government.
One Nation voters are the only group preferring Mr Abbott's leadership qualities, the poll found.
Veteran Liberal confronted by young rising star for calling refugee activists and environmentalists "a bunch of cockroaches"
The Turnbull government has denied inequality is worsening in Australia and dismissed Labor's latest tax change push as the "politics of envy".
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