Posted
| UpdatedMalcolm Fraser is remembered as "a great moral compass", "very tough" and "a giant of Australian politics" after his death.
Topics: government-and-politics, community-and-society, federal-parliament, australia
Posted
Insiders' Barrie Cassidy wraps up the week in politics and the Prime Minister's declaration that the Federal budget is now manageable
Topics: budget, federal-parliament, australia
Posted
| UpdatedA Jewish Labor MP walks out of Question Time after Prime Minister Tony Abbott compares the Opposition Leader Bill Shorten to Nazi figure Joseph Goebbels.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-parliament, australia
Posted
| UpdatedThis year's federal budget will be "dull" and "much less exhilarating" compared to last year's, according to Prime Minister Tony Abbott.
Topics: budget, federal-parliament, hockey-joe, abbott-tony, australia
Posted
| UpdatedAustralia's universities are warning they will be forced to make "difficult decisions" without more funding, after the Government's higher education reform bill is again voted down in the Senate.
Topics: university-and-further-education, education, federal-parliament, parliament, government-and-politics, australia
Posted
| UpdatedThe Senate votes down the Federal Government's legislation to uncap university fees, with several crossbench senators joining Labor and the Greens to defeat the bill 34 votes to 30.
Topics: federal-government, federal-parliament, university-and-further-education, government-and-politics, budget, australia
Posted
| UpdatedFinally, we know what metadata is, or perhaps more precisely, how the Government is choosing to define it as part of its controversial Data Retention Bill.
Topics: information-and-communication, security-intelligence, law-crime-and-justice, internet-technology, computers-and-technology, internet-culture, federal-government, federal-parliament, australia
Posted
| UpdatedAttorney-General George Brandis describes warnings from the journalists' union that new metadata laws are an attack on press freedom as "outrageous hyperbole".
Topics: federal-parliament, federal-government, information-technology, law-crime-and-justice, canberra-2600
Posted
| UpdatedThe education minister Christopher Pyne says he has done everything he can to ensure the passage of the higher education reforms, saying it's too important to give up.
Topics: university-and-further-education, federal-government, federal-parliament, australia, parliament-house-2600
Posted
| UpdatedEducation Minister Christopher Pyne vows to never give up trying to overhaul the higher education system, despite his contentious legislation facing another defeat in the Senate.
Topics: education, university-and-further-education, federal-parliament, federal-government, canberra-2600
Posted
Motoring Enthusiast Party Senator Ricky Muir is the latest crossbencher to confirm he will vote against the Federal Government's bill to deregulate university fees.
Topics: federal-government, federal-parliament, education, business-economics-and-finance, industry, education-industry, australia
Posted
| UpdatedThe Government agrees to an Opposition demand to modify its data retention legislation, to better protect journalists' sources.
Topics: abbott-tony, bill-shorten, journalism, information-and-communication, government-and-politics, federal-government, federal-parliament, australia
Posted
| UpdatedThe Palmer United Party (PUP) is considering taking High Court action against Glenn Lazarus after the Senator quit its ranks.
Topics: courts-and-trials, federal-parliament, australia
Posted
| UpdatedThere is concern from within both major parties that Hansard, the official record of Parliament, is being substantially altered.
Topics: federal-parliament, parliament-house-2600
Posted
| UpdatedThe dumping of dredge spoil in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park will be completely banned under draft federal laws proposed ahead of a UNESCO meeting in June to determine whether the world heritage site should be listed as in danger.
Topics: great-barrier-reef, oceans-and-reefs, environment, parliament, federal-parliament, government-and-politics, qld
Posted
Key Independent Senator Nick Xenophon says uni reforms are unlikely to pass the Senate
Topics: university-and-further-education, education, budget, federal-government, federal-parliament, australia
Posted
Labor's Kim Carr accuses Education Minister Christopher Pyne of trying to blackmail the Senate into supporting his deregulation of university fees.
Topics: university-and-further-education, education, access-to-education, federal-parliament, australia
Posted
| UpdatedTasmanian independent senator Jacqui Lambie says she is looking forward to working with former party colleague Glenn Lazarus, who has also left the Palmer United Party (PUP).
Topics: federal-parliament, political-parties, government-and-politics, tas, qld, hobart-7000
Posted
Topics: agricultural-policy, federal-parliament, parliament-house-2600
Posted
| UpdatedPalmer United Party founder Clive Palmer accuses Glenn Lazarus of "spitting the dummy" after the Queensland senator announces his resignation from the party.
Topics: clive-palmer, federal-parliament, political-parties, government-and-politics, minor-parties, qld, australia
Posted
Insiders host Barrie Cassidy reviews the week in politics on News Breakfast.
Topics: parliament, political-parties, federal-parliament, melbourne-3000
Posted
| UpdatedQueensland senator Glenn Lazarus parts ways with the Palmer United Party after his wife Tess is sacked from the party, leaving the PUP with just one representative in the Senate.
Topics: federal-parliament, government-and-politics, political-parties, clive-palmer, qld, australia
Posted
A support group for young people who live in nursing homes is calling on the Federal Government to bring departments together to get young people out of the aged care sector.
Topics: disabilities, aged-care, federal-parliament, melbourne-3000, parkville-3052
Posted
| UpdatedSenior Cabinet Minister Malcolm Turnbull says it is a "thoroughly bad idea" to allow young people to tap into their superannuation savings to buy their first home.
Topics: federal-parliament, government-and-politics, turnbull-malcolm, superannuation, australia
Posted
| UpdatedQueensland Labor senator and former Rudd and Gillard cabinet minister Joe Ludwig announces he will not run in the next federal election.
Topics: government-and-politics, elections, parliament, federal-parliament, australia, qld