Michelle Grattan speaks with Deep Saini about the week in Australian poltiics.
- Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
It will be months before Labor will know what damage the citizenship crisis might do to it.
The first same-sex weddings will be celebrated early in the new year after the historic change to the marriage law passed the House of Representatives with only four MPs voting against.
Politics Podcast: John Blaxland on new foreign interference laws
John Blaxland has some real concerns about the unintended consequences of the proposed foreign interference legislation on academic debate.
This is the second consecutive time the Nationals have chosen a female senator as deputy leader.
The opposition failed in an attempt to get a ‘job lot’ of MPs referred to the High Court.
If David Feeney was found to be ineligible, Labor would be at high risk of losing his Melbourne seat of Batman to the Greens.
Katy Gallagher is one of several Labor MPs likely to be referred to the High Court as the citizenship crisis turns on the opposition.
While the government improved compared with the previous poll, this is the 24th consecutive Newspoll the Coalition has lost in two-party terms.
Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce has been returned to parliament with a big swing toward him in his New South Wales seat of New England.
Malcolm Turnbull has faced an extraordinary attack from NSW Nationals leader John Barilaro.
Michelle Grattan speaks with Mark Evans about the week in Australian politics.
Seldom is a government’s impotence and frustration as much on display as it was when Malcolm Turnbull finally capitulated and announced he would set up a banking royal commission.
Politics Podcast: Matt Canavan on divorce in the LNP and discipline in the Coaliton
Nationals cabinet minister Matt Canavan doesn't agree that breaking up the Queensland LNP would solve any problems politically.
Bill Shorten has forced Labor senator Sam Dastyari to quit as opposition deputy whip in the Senate.
Labor’s ‘dark vision’ that valued ‘envy and populism’ over growth would suffocate Australia’s economy, Scott Morrison has said.
The government has questioned whether Sam Dastyari should remain in the Senate.
The same-sex marriage bill has passed the Senate, after all the amendments to insert protections and restrictions were voted down.
If the Nationals as a party moved to support an inquiry, Malcolm Turnbull would be left deeply embarrassed.
Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison appear to have become hostages to rebel Nationals determined at all costs to secure a commission of inquiry into the banks.
Malcolm Turnbull may say that the Queensland election was decided on state issues, but there are plenty of lessons for the federal LNP in the results.
Michelle Grattan speaks with Nicholas Klomp about the week in Australian politics.
What on earth was Julie Bishop thinking when she declared she’d support a ‘formal investigation’ into this week’s damaging cabinet leak?
Malcolm Turnbull’s cancellation of next week’s House of Representatives sitting has been received sceptically by Queensland ‘soft’ voters, but they still prefer him over Bill Shorten.
Nick Xenophon Team senator Skye Kakoschke-Moore has resigned from parliament after being advised she is a British citizen via her mother.
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