Australian parliament


Canberra Calling: Australian Parliamentary punch ups, reshuffles and bottles of saveloy sauce

Examining the rise and fall, in’s and out’s, pro’s and con’s of the Fitzgibbon scandal generated reshuffle.

Tragedy brings the best out of Parliament

It’s a shame such a vast tragedy was required to bring out the best in our parliamentarians, but it did, writes Bernard Keane.

ALP and Liberal backflips in the final hour of parliament

The mass abstention was a poor look for Turnbull, especially with his Senate leader being amongst their number, writes Bernard Keane.

Scutt: ALP’s support of NT intervention “shameful”

The alliance between the Howard government and the Rudd opposition is shameful. It does not represent the Australia in which I believe and have a stake, writes Jocelynne A Scutt.