Jake Evans is a federal political reporter at Parliament House in Canberra.
Infrastructure Department officials categorically rejected the prime minister's claim regarding the Marrickville Golf Club grant at a Senate estimates hearing last night.
Anothony Albanese's office was invited to a photo opportunity to celebrate a $6 million grant to the Marrickville Golf Club days before the ABC revealed his undisclosed honorary membership.
Federal MPs describe deep fears for their safety in the wake of the attack on independent MP Helen Haines, with some describing a mixed experience of the security services made available to them.
More than 60 megalitres of Australian-made biofuel products were being sold offshore at the same time as the nation's petrol and diesel pumps ran dry.
Greens leader David Shoebridge has insisted that Senator Jordon Steele-John should take personal leave, after the WA senator denied he had offered or agreed to step back while allegations against him were investigated.
The WA Greens maintained a document on how to respond in the event of complaints against Jordon Steele-John being made public, it has been revealed.
Burned once before on energy bill promises, the resources minister won't say what new gas reservation laws will do to wholesale gas prices, but promises they will cause downward pressure without crashing the market.
The Climate Council says coal and gas mines are using a "loophole" to expand operations and add new emissions while avoiding stricter emissions laws for new coal and gas.
Labor MPs nominated Marrickville Golf Club for closed, non-competitive grant funding on five previous occasions before it was promised $6 million at the 2025 election by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
One Nation wants negative migration in its first years, the Coalition has promised to more than halve it, while Labor has announced measures to ensure migration actually falls to its target of 225,000. Here is what the parties want to do on migration, and how they propose to do it.
Taking inspiration from New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, "Fair Go Grocers" public supermarkets would offer essential goods at a discount and act as a competitor to drive down prices at Coles and Woolworths.
The eleven-member party room met in Sydney today, and selected New South Wales Senator David Shoebridge to replace Queensland Senator Larissa Waters who stepped down this week due to illness after 16 months in the role.
The Greens will select a new leader after the shock resignation of Larissa Waters, as the party considers its future direction amid a surging One Nation.
Labor, Coalition agree OpenAI's Medicare breach proves the need for Australia to secure "a seat at the AI table" by rolling out data centres nationally.
The Federal Coalition looks to reignite the climate wars, announcing the climate and energy policy it will take to the next election.
The Coalition has promised a major slowdown of renewables if it wins power, including scrapping most offshore renewables sites, formalising its commitment to unpick Australia's key climate policies.
Australia is getting much older, and it is getting older faster than previously thought. But the major political parties are currently in a race to cut the greatest source of resilience against that trend: migration.
Migration experts slap down a Greens claim that the Border Force crackdown on visa overstayers will be akin to ICE raids in the United States, saying it was an uncontroversial procedure that occurred regularly until 2015.
Senator Ralph Babet's new fashion line, which includes Australian flag towels, mugs and socks, is made in South America and Asia.
One Nation's treasury spokesperson Barnaby Joyce says his party is prepared to put the will of the people ahead of the opinions of economists, as he faces claims on ABC's National Forum that net negative migration would "tank" Australia's economy.
MPs make promises; MPs deliver on those promises — but the public expects we all get a fair go when politicians spend our money.
Some seats were offered tens of millions of dollars in funding for sports clubs, parks and more, while 45 seats were given nothing out of an "invite-only" grant program now under scrutiny over pork barrelling claims.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese held an honorary membership to the Marrickville Golf Club in his seat, which was promised $6 million at the 2025 election through an invite-only scheme, and which Mr Albanese has not declared.
The federal Labor government has been accused of pork barrelling over an "invite-only" grants program which overwhelmingly directed funds into safe Labor and marginal seats the party wanted to win at the 2025 federal election.
An 'invite-only' grants program was overwhelmingly directed into safe Labor seats and marginal seats the party wanted to win at the 2025 federal election, a Centre for Public Integrity investigation of the $560 million program has concluded.
