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Bell tolls for Marshall as Xenophon saves face
Steven Marshall could be forgiven for wondering if a black cat has crossed his political path at some point in the distant past.
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Steven Marshall could be forgiven for wondering if a black cat has crossed his political path at some point in the distant past.
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UPDATED | High-profile independent senator Nick Xenophon could be a UK citizen by descent, rendering him potentially ineligible to serve in parliament.
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UPDATED | Premier Jay Weatherill has invoked the “faceless men” attack so often levelled against his own Labor Party to critique Nick Xenophon’s fallout with his only state MP.
UPDATED | Scandal-hit Mount Gambier MP Troy Bell insists he’s “done nothing wrong” and can “hold his head up high” despite facing a raft of criminal charges stemming from an ICAC investigation which has plunged the state’s Liberal Party into crisis.
Far from being the last nail in the Weatherill Government's electoral coffin, the power crisis has perversely breathed new life into Labor's re-election hopes, writes Tom Richardson. It is turning its own failures on energy security into a single-issue platform on which to campaign.
Communications Minister Mitch Fifield has leveraged One Nation’s demand for reprisals against public broadcasters ABC and SBS in a desperate bid to re-engineer the Australian commercial media industry.
The timeline of events that led to Australian Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce finding out he was a New Zealand citizen has been confirmed.
Let’s get one point straight. The crisis around Barnaby Joyce has been caused by one simple oversight by one person. Joyce was careless in not properly checking whether he complied with the citizenship requirement of the Australian Constitution.
The Turnbull Government may have won the support of One Nation for its media ownership reforms but it faces a struggle to convince other crucial Senate crossbenchers.
New Zealand's internal affairs minister says questions from journalists, not an MP, were the trigger for the citizen check on Barnaby Joyce, as the incident threatens to harm cross-Tasman relations.
The divisive rhetoric surrounding federal Labor's proposed tax on family trusts masks the real debate we need to have about the Australian tax system, argues Andrea Michaels.
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“Malcolm Turnbull has outlined how Australians will vote on same sex marriage through a $122 million postal ballot if another plebiscite push fails.”
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Tony Abbott has issued a stern warning to his federal Liberal colleagues pushing for a free vote on same-sex marriage, insisting they are "honour-bound" to oppose it without a plebiscite.
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The Coalition Government continues to trail Labor 47 to 53 on a two-party preferred basis for the sixth Newspoll running.
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Conservative Liberals have rejected suggestions Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will be rolled if MPs cross the floor of parliament to vote for same-sex marriage.
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Washington White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci is out of a job just 10 days after US President Donald Trump appointed him.
Tech billionaire Elon Musk says he will return to Adelaide within weeks to update the world on his plans to colonise Mars.
Ousted Liberal veteran Duncan McFetridge has called on his successor Stephen Patterson to resign as Holdfast Mayor – and the State Government has questioned his ability to continue in the role - after his council called for a moratorium on oil and gas exploration in the Great Australian Bight.
Tony Abbott has attacked Malcolm Turnbull's national security overhaul as a "massive bureaucratic change", revealing he was advised against the move as prime minister.
Malcolm Turnbull insists his new super security ministry will make Australia safer but Labor wants him to show how.
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Greens senator Scott Ludlam is leaving federal parliament after finding out he was improperly elected more than a decade ago.
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Jay Weatherill has laid the groundwork for a bold re-election pitch, telling InDaily the looming state election will be “a referendum on renewable energy” - and arguing his Government’s “leadership” on battery storage has put the state “on the national and international map”.
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