Eryk Bagshaw is an economics reporter for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, based in Parliament House
The Parliamentary Budget Office has been forced to disown modelling released by the Turnbull government that claimed Labor's tax plan would put a $150 billion tax bill on families and small businesses.
While mother-of-five Joanna Karalis spent up to half her income on rent. "It was so hard with one wage just to keep the electricity, gas and water on and buy school uniforms for the kids."
Labor and Coalition senators have crossed the political divide to call on the Reserve Bank to embrace bitcoins.
Australia will be forced to choose between the military security of the US and the economic opportunity of China, experts warn.
Australian universities have been hammered by the results of the world's largest survey into sexual assault on campus after the Human Rights Commission labelled its findings "unacceptable".
University students are experiencing an "alarming" rate of sexual assault on campus, a survey of 31,000 Australian students has found.
"My degree, my chance to graduate. My career. My education. My health and happiness. Friends, trust. confidence, curiosity and hope."
The impending release has sent universities scrambling to provide enough frontline services for students and to radically alter the culture of their campuses.
A senate inquiry has been warned of potentially tragic consequences from Australia's lax building laws.
The shock resignation of Greens senator Larissa Waters on Tuesday has triggered a wave of overseas born federal MPs scrambling to declare their Australian allegiance.
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