National
Nationals backbencher David Gillespie has dismissed damning evidence about a sports grants scheme as a mere “technicality”.
Politics
Nationals leader Michael McCormack has seen off a challenge from Barnaby Joyce but now faces the formidable task of trying to bring together a fractured party that lost two cabinet ministers this week.
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Barnaby Joyce will challenge Michael McCormack for the leadership of the National Party if the position is spilled.
The Federal Government’s pork-barrelling of sports grants undermines two of the most important principles of our parliamentary democracy, argues Michael Jacobs.
Bridget McKenzie slugged taxpayers more than $40,000 for a VIP flight from Adelaide to Western Australia for a shooters’ expo, where she declared shooters didn’t want “special deals” but were sick of being treated like “pariahs and terrorists”.
Scott Morrison will use his first major 2020 speech to press his plan for more federal government power to intervene directly when there are natural disasters, including by deploying the defence force without requests from the states.
