Indigenous Australians should have a voice to parliament and the government should consider supporting the body, a bi-partisan committee says in its report being tabled in Parliament today. The recommendations come despite Scott Morrison's rejection of the concept.
Parliamentary privilege provides legal immunity to those who use it within the Houses of Parliament. Here's how it can be used — and its limits.
The Home Affairs Minister uses parliamentary privilege to lash out at Roman Quaedvlieg over "fictitious" and "salacious" information regarding the au pairs saga, accusing him of being a "discredited and disgraced" person who "groomed a girl 30 years younger than himself".
Peter Dutton says the Greens are wrong to say he misled Parliament over the granting of visas for two au pairs.
Now that the Coalition is down one member in the House of Representatives, and one of its Nationals is sitting on the crossbench, its opponents might try to test the numbers with a vote of no confidence in Peter Dutton. Here's how that could play out.
Labor is seeking to rekindle the debate over Peter Dutton's eligibility to remain in Federal Parliament, with a new document revealing new questions over his financial dealings with the Commonwealth.
The Prime Minister's jobs offers may have been a clever way to keep these two former leaders busy and put their abilities to use, but their could be consequences under the Constitution, writes Luke Beck.