The NSW Young Liberals have posted a photograph in support of the ice-cream maker, which is in a dispute with its workers.

Refugees spending second night in darkness put faith in a legal challenge in PNG's Supreme Court.

Labor backbencher Kimberley Kitching has fast become one of the hardest-working members of Parliament, spending $20,000 on domestic flights in her first three months in office, more than Turnbull government ministers Dan Tehan, Greg Hunt and Darren Chester jetting between committee meetings.

Liberal Senate President Stephen Parry revealed on Tuesday that he was also under a dual-citizenship cloud.

The Greens have escalated their criticisms of the Turnbull government over the tense stand-off at the Manus Island detention centre, issuing a dire warning about the urgent risks of detainees not having medication for mental illnesses.

A top adviser to dumped One Nation senator turned Queensland election candidate Malcolm Roberts has been charged with rape.

Government MPs are joining growing calls for a "full audit" of MPs' citizenship status, with one describing the ongoing constitutional saga as the "death of a thousand cuts" of the Parliament.

The Bureau said 12.3 million survey responses had been received as of last week, as the window closes for voters to post their forms.

The ugly and potentially violent standoff marks another dark episode in the history of Australia's offshore processing regime.

Crossbench powerbroker Nick Xenophon will be replaced by his staffer, Rex Patrick, when he leaves the Senate to contest the South Australian election.

Senate president Stephen Parry has revealed he believes he holds dual citizenship and may need to resign.

Professor Kevin Davis believes he has found a way around the roadblock that's been stopping NSW and Victoria axing stamp duty.

Nationals MPs admit their numbers in Malcolm Turnbull's cabinet could be cut following the High Court's decision to disqualify former senator Fiona Nash from the upper house.

Acting Prime Minister Julie Bishop has signalled Australia is open to reviving plans for a sensitive four-way diplomatic and security co-operation with the United States.

Locals have begun removing equipment from the Manus Island processing centre, while Papua New Guinea authorities look on, detainees claim.

A senior White House official says Donald Trump will meet with Malcolm Turnbull during his coming visit to Asia.

Malcolm Turnbull says he looks forward to deeper collaboration with Israel, considered a cyber warfare superpower.

Hundreds of refugees and asylum seekers are barricading themselves inside the Manus Island processing centre and refusing to leave amid fears they'll be attacked if they leave the security of the compound's wire fences by locals who don't want them there.

It may have the Turnbull and Palaszczuk governments firmly in its corner, but the Adani super-mine is facing a formidable new opponent: the Christian faith.

Arts donors are in revolt against the Australia Council, criticising "ill-conceived" changes to Australia's participation in the Venice Biennale.

All future free trade agreements would have be vetted by the Productivity Commission and reexamined every ten years under a new Labor policy put which has won endorsement from business.

Acting Prime Minister Julie Bishop has conceded some decisions taken before former ministers Barnaby Joyce and Fiona Nash were disqualified, are being re-examined to ensure they are legally sound

The Australian Taxation Office is aware investigative journalists are scrutinising the clients of Bermuda-based law firm Appleby, and are bracing themselves for what could be a second "Panama Papers" style leak.

The five federal politicians disqualified over their citizenship status collected close to $9 million in taxpayer-funded salaries they were not entitled to.

The Tax Office has fallen short of budget revenue targets by $4.2 billion, its 2017 annual report shows.

Papua New Guinea has demanded the Turnbull government urgently resolve what will happen to hundreds of asylum seekers.

Former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce has dared the Labor Party and the union movement to bring a legal challenge against any of the decisions he oversaw.

More than 100 Turnbull government decisions are vulnerable to legal challenge as a result of Barnaby Joyce and Fiona Nash's dual citizenship status, with lawyers concluding there is a high likelihood the work they have done over the last year will end up before the courts.

Unions are demanding answers over the latest twist in the Michaelia Cash controversy, after it emerged a key figure in the government agency investigating the Australian Workers Union had been about to start a job in the employment minister's office.