Sarah Martin

MPs query need for referendum

0:00 AMSARAH MARTINA push for a new indigenous advisory body to be enshrined in the Constitution is battling to win political supp

Carbon capture signed off

0:00 AMSARAH MARTINBusiness welcomes an overhaul of the ‘green bank’ to allow the funding of carbon capture and storage.

exclusiveCoalition Uluru Statement split

0:00 AMSTEPHEN FITZPATRICK, SARAH MARTINKey figures in the Coalition are at odds over a plan to include an indigenous advisory body in the constitution.

Wyatt a man to the mana born

0:00 AMSARAH MARTINThe PM used the Maori word mana to describe the first Aboriginal man elected to the House of Representatives.

ExclusiveTelstra’s $100m electricity rise

0:00 AMSARAH MARTINTelstra has warned the federal government its power costs have surged more than $100 million in the past year.

Home soil attacks ‘probable’

0:00 AMSARAH MARTINAustralia’s involvement in the war against IS is helping to eliminate the risk of terrorist attacks on home soil.

Inland rail: investors uninterested

0:00 AMSARAH MARTINPrivate investors would be unlikely to fund the $8.3bn inland rail project because returns are too low.

Ciobo hails revived TPP

0:00 AMSARAH MARTINTrade Minister Steve Ciobo has hailed progress on a new trans-Pacific trade deal.

exclusiveRight outspent by $121m

0:00 AMSARAH MARTINAnti-business activist groups spend four times more each year on political campaigning than business.

ScoMo sticks to levy timetable

0:00 AMSARAH MARTINLegislation for the government’s controversial new bank levy may be delayed.

exclusiveUFO spotters in hardship pot

0:00 AMSARAH MARTINA $10m grants program to help disadvantaged areas was used to give a NSW central coast UFO group almost $3000.

Government, ABC were clients

0:00 AMSARAH MARTINGovernment departments were among those using the payroll company at the centre of the alleged $165m Plutus tax scam.

AAA loss beats levy, banks told

0:00 AMSARAH MARTINScott Morrison has argued that banks would suffer a greater financial hit if the country lost its AAA credit rating.

exclusive$20 tests for welfare drug trial

0:00 AMSARAH MARTINDrug checks on welfare recipients could cost as little as $20 a time and deliver results within 90 seconds.

Labor feels NDIS pressure

0:00 AMSARAH MARTIN, JOE KELLYBill Shorten is under pressure to support the Turnbull government’s plan to fully fund the NDIS.

Afghans ‘need us for longer’

0:00 AMSARAH MARTINMalcolm Turnbull is ‘actively considering’ a request from NATO to send additional resources to Afghanistan.

Month’s cash loss for job refusers

0:00 AMSARAH MARTINUnemployed people who refuse work will receive severe punishment under the government’s proposed welfare crackdown.

exclusiveCrackdown in drug hot spots

0:00 AMSARAH MARTINUnemployment hotspots where high illegal drug levels are detected in the wastewater will be trial sites for a crackdown on welfare.