Latika Bourke is a reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age based in London. She has previously worked for Fairfax Media, the ABC and 2UE in Canberra. Latika won the Walkley Award for Young Australian Journalist of the Year in 2010.
Q&A; hosted fiery and emotive scenes as Malcolm Turnbull was challenged about his record on indigenous recognition, culminating in a visibly-offended prime minister urging his critics to support indigenous MPs from both sides of parliament.
The names of MPs who abstain are not recorded, but is estimated about 14 MPs did not vote on the same-sex marriage bill.
Some of the world's most recognisable companies would lose nearly $250 billion if governments extended Australia's controversial plain packaging laws from tobacco to alcohol, sugary drinks and junk food.
Only half of Australians think that life in 2017 is better than it was in 1967 before the advent of the internet, mobile phones and globalisation of world economies, which has seen consumers exposed to more choice than ever before.
Calum Thwaites confronted the former Human Rights Commission president live on the ABC's Q&A; program on Monday night, saying a racial discrimination case against him nearly ruined his life.
The visit was well after a 2015 briefing where party representatives were warned by ASIO of Chinese interference in Australian politics.
Kevin Rudd says Malcolm Turnbull will be "smashed" at the next election by Bill Shorten and has called on the prime minister to save face and quit now.
Oxford: She called him a "psychopathic narcissist" and put forward her canine as a more suitable candidate for the role of United Nations Secretary General, but Kevin Rudd has endorsed Kristina Keneally in the Bennelong byelection where a Labor win would turn Malcolm Turnbull's government into minority rule.
Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison's first budget "surrendered" to the politics of inequality and "retreated" from reducing government spending to balance the budget, says an essay published by a Canadian think tank.
"My partner hasn't built up the courage to ask me," the Qantas chief executive and prominent gay marriage campaigner said. Asked if he might do the proposing, Alan Joyce responded: "No, no, why would that happen?"
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