Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has gotten his birthday wish, with his “second favourite Jodie” clinching the win at the Dunkley by-election. Jodie Belyea claimed the win just after 9pm on Saturday, just after the Liberal Party cautioned Labor against popping champagne just yet Deputy Opposition Leader Sussan Ley said althoughContinue Reading
The National Anti-Corruption Commission will be tasked with investigating former Queensland MP Stuart Robert’s links to consulting firm Synergy 360. The referral comes from parliament’s Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit who had been probing the matter, and is the first of its kind since the NACC opened inContinue Reading
The Coalition has accused the government of “blocking” access to crucial data they say could better ensure more targeted cost-of-living assistance. They say Labor has failed to provide transparent electorate-by-electorate data that shows how long Australians are waiting for their government payments to be processed; and accused Government Services MinisterContinue Reading
The robodebt royal commission, which handed down its findings on Friday, July 7, has dominated headlines all week. Such a reaction to the commission’s findings was perfectly foreseeable: Despite its illegality, from the moment of its inception in 2015, the scheme sent out more than 400,000 unlawful debt notices toContinue Reading
The LNP have secured the majority of votes to retain their seat of power in the Fadden electorate, months after the opposition was dealt a giant blow when it lost the Aston by-election. The LNP candidate and Gold Coast City councillor, Cameron Caldwell, is likely to claim the majority ofContinue Reading
The LNP are preparing to defend their seat of power for the second time in over a year as voters in the Fadden electorate head to the polls. The by-election for the seat of Fadden on Queensland’s northern Gold Coast was triggered after former Coalition minister Stuart Robert officially quitContinue Reading
Peter Dutton is standing firm behind former prime minister Scott Morrison despite mounting pressure on the former leader to resign from parliament. The damning robodebt royal commission found Mr Morrison had “allowed cabinet to be misled” as social services minister when the “crude and cruel” system was introduced. Mr MorrisonContinue Reading
Nat Barr has fired up at Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce after he sought to rewrite the former federal government’s record on robodebt. In his Monday morning appearance on Sunrise, the former deputy prime minister claimed the former government had abandoned the robodebt scheme when it became aware it was illegal.Continue Reading
Bill Shorten has accused of a series of politicians in the former government of gaslighting the nation over the robodebt scheme. The government services minister said the debt recovery scheme would be the “political tombstone” of Coalition members who featured heavily in a Royal Commission report handed down on Friday.Continue Reading
Scott Morrison and the other ministers and bureaucrats responsible for the illegal robodebt scheme will “have to live with this on their conscience for the rest of their lives”, a senior Labor Minister says. Education Minister Jason Clare said the robodebt royal commission had made it clear that as farContinue Reading