INSANE: 8 - The Real Truth

Welfare groups cheer Centrelink deal by David Pocock, although Jacqui Lambie is no fan

ACT Senator David Pocock will back the industrial relations bill, but demanded the government review Centrelink income payments

The New Daily · Nov 28, 2022

Grattan on Friday: David Pocock has only just arrived in the Senate and now he's negotiating with the PM

He wouldn’t relish the comparison, but at the start of the Albanese government Senate crossbencher David Pocock finds himself with the sort of pivotal power independent Brian Harradine enjoyed during the early Howard years.

The Conversation · Nov 24, 2022

Labor rams through bills before Christmas

The Senate will sit for two extra days and for longer to pass all the government's legislation before parliament rises for the final time this year.

AAP · Nov 22, 2022

Half of Australia hit by natural disasters

The scale of natural disasters hitting Australian communities has been revealed, affecting areas where more than 16 million people live.

AAP · Oct 28, 2022

Battle over corruption watchdog hearings

The proposal for a national anti-corruption commission has divided parliament, with the opposition and members of the cross bench poking holes in the model.

AAP · Oct 2, 2022

Majority of Australians back sound economic management over keeping promised tax cuts, survey suggests

Almost half of those polled support axing stage three cuts while one quarter thought they should be kept

The Guardian - AU · Oct 2, 2022

Dutton says ‘balance is right’ on Labor’s anti-corruption laws, clearing path for bill to pass

Liberal leader urges government to ignore criticism on threshold test for public hearings and says there is ‘no place for corrupt behaviour in public life’

The Guardian - AU · Sep 28, 2022

Australian soldier alleges torture survival course involved simulated child rape and left him with PTSD

The defence force’s alleged handling of the training course prompted a complaint to the Australian Human Rights Commission

The Guardian - AU · Sep 25, 2022

'I've been his boxing bag': What Jacquie Lambie really thinks about Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell

"My heart bleeds for all the Labor ministers that will go without a Micallef caricature"

The Canberra Times · Sep 20, 2022

‘The real deal’: eight years in the red house, Jacqui Lambie still calls it as she sees it

The Tasmanian senator admits she was a wrecking ball when she first came to parliament, but Lambie 2022 is (mostly) not Lambie 2014

The Guardian - AU · Sep 17, 2022