On Sunday Scott Morrison will become the first Australian Prime Minister to visit Honiara in more than a decade. And though the visit is being framed in the Pacific tug-of-war with China, it goes deeper than that, writes Nick Sas.
Australia's newly minted Minister for Women has been advocating behind the scenes for women in the Liberal Party for decades. But Marise Payne has her work cut out for her in this new job.
Many green groups invested significant resources ahead of the federal election, campaigning against the Adani mine and for stronger climate policies. But did they fail to read public sentiment and, in fact, help the Coalition to victory?
After a stranger's powerful words helped Natasha Young turn her life around, she started tying laminated notes with message of hope on the bridge. But Brisbane City Council is taking them down.
If Scott Morrison's job in this term of the Parliament is to run a better government, it is Anthony Albanese's job to switch the political focus on to the Coalition, writes Laura Tingle.
Adani needs just one more environmental approval before it can start building one of the country's biggest coal mines after the Queensland Government approves a crucial plan to protect an endangered bird.
An election-eve email urging Pentecostal church members to vote for the Prime Minister is criticised by a religious commentator, who says the message presented a "narrow view of Christianity".
Greens MP Adam Bandt says that one in four of Australia's poor are in full-time employment. Is he correct?
The former Labor leader addresses the party's first Caucus meeting since its shock defeat, saying there were "lessons to be learned" but external factors had conspired against the ALP.
The two men will be joined by senators Penny Wong and Kristina Keneally as the four politicians to lead the Opposition.
Get a wrap of the key stories and analysis from the ABC's chief politics writer Annabel Crabb.
