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The push to try to get Immigration Minister Peter Dutton onto Cabinet’s national security committee (NSC) can be seen, apart from anything else, as something of a power play by the Liberal right.
Bill Shorten can heave a sigh of relief at the statement from the royal commission into union corruption that he didn’t do anything illegal in the activities it examined in his Australian Workers’ Union…
It was quite an extraordinary statement from a hard-headed business leader when Catherine Livingstone told Malcolm Turnbull that “in just seven weeks … the impact you have had on national sentiment is…
Call me naïve, but I can’t see why Malcolm Turnbull would rush to an election early next year after flagging he will go full term.
Cabinet secretary Arthur Sinodinos made some obvious but fundamental points when talking on Sunday about Malcolm Turnbull and tax reform.
Michael Thawley, surprised at finding so many closed doors – requiring swipe cards – when he became secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, has now opened most of the internal ones…
Tony Abbott’s initial post-prime ministerial public foray on the policy front has been narrow cast and hard line.
It was another good day at the office for the Turnbull government. Finally, Labor came on board with the China-Australia free trade agreement. And a package of changes for savings from family tax benefits…
Malcolm Turnbull has unveiled changes to question time to give government backbenchers a new opportunity to pitch to their local audiences. It’s quite a clever tactic.
The appalling saga of the pregnant Somali woman known by the pseudonym of “Abyan” shows the urgent need for some neutral watchdog in such a situation to ensure the person’s interests are protected and…