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From john passant ….The born to rort party is back in charge and all is right in the land of the long boozy taxpayer funded lunch, dinner, wedding, party, anything.

Novak Djokovic is the latest in a long line of high-profile celebrities to have issues with Australian authorities, following in the footsteps of Eminem, Frank Sinatra and Johnny Depp.

Coalition MP Andrew Wallace has been elected Speaker of the House of Representatives in the Federal Parliam...

A former barrister and carpenter, Andrew Wallace is chasing the chance to be Australia’s 31st Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Rebel NSW Liberal MP kicked out of party over upper house job We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size Advertisement Rebel NSW Liberal MP Matthew Mason-Cox has been expelled from the party effective immediately after he infuriated Premier Gladys Berejiklian by nominating for president of the upper house. Ms Berejiklian wanted Mr Mason-Cox kicked out of the party after he put his hand up for president despite the government insisting ...

Both female power and female fury has men throwing their toys.

Canberra, Australia – Australian politics appears set to face a reckoning after a wave of allegations of sexual assault and harassment committed by multiple politicians and staff at Parliament House in the country’s capital. Allegations have so far been made against a male political staffer, alleged to have raped a female colleague in 2019, against Attorney-General Christian Porter, accused of sexually assaulting a female acquaintance when both were teenagers in 1988; and against a senior a...

Is this Australia’s turning point on sexual harassment, assault? Kate Walton © Thousands of people are expected to join in nationwide protests against sexism in Australia on Sunda... Thousands of people are expected to join in nationwide protests against sexism in Australia on Sunday and Monday [File: Tim Wimborne/Reuters] Canberra, Australia – Australian politics appears set to face a reckoning after a wave of allegations of sexual assault and harassment committed by mul...

Advertisement There are so many answers to refute the claim that the rule of law prevents an inquiry into rape allegations against Attorney-General Christian Porter that it’s difficult to know where to start. Attorney-General Christian Porter has vigorously denied the rape allegations. Credit:Trevor Collens Last night on ABC’s Four Corners, eminent Sydney silk, Arthur Moses QC, sounded a warning that “the floodgates” would open if an inquiry into rape allegations against Ch...

In the life before, they suspected they might be vulnerable. In the life after, they knew they were vulnerable. These experiences are much more common than many people think. The point of me laying this out so directly is simple: these experiences inform how many Australian women are listening to a government trying to dig its way out of what it imagines is a political crisis. Women are listening to Morrison constructing various formulations to ride out the daily news cycle. First we were havin...