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From travel rorts to Paladin, to union raids and the Banking RC, hiding is what the Morrison Government is ​​​​​​about. read now...

Morrison's border scare campaign appears to be working. But the doomed Victorian Liberals' campaign on "African gangs" shows fear doesn't always work at the polling booth, writes James Norman.

Lay off Senator Cormann. It’s a big number. Remember, he couldn’t count to 43 recently. - Garry Donnelly, Repton. Andrew Burnes, Liberal Party treasurer, ‘‘close personal and political associate’’ of Cormann and a beneficiary of a contract from Cormann’s depa…

A reading of evidence from Senate estimates yesterday paints a very different picture of the security implications of last week's debate about medevac legislation than the one generally reported, writes Laura Tingle.

Within days of Federal Parliament's historic vote making it easier for refugees and asylum seekers to get medical help in Australia, the Pacific nation creates new laws that ban referrals from online consultations.

CHINA HITS BACK AT ‘IRRESPONSIBLE ACCUSATIONS’ China has hit back at suggestions it was behind the hacking of parliament and Australia’s major political parties. Yesterday Scott Morrison revealed experts believe a “state actor” was behind the cyber attack, th…

In 34 cases, sick refugees and asylum seekers were only transferred following a court order. View Entire Post ›

Revelation by head of home affairs department comes as Nauru bans medical transfers based on telehealth assessments, threatening to derail new medevac laws Sick people from Manus Island and Nauru will be sent to Christmas Island, not the mainland, under new m…

Originally designed to display service times or bible quotations, church signs are becoming a site of political commentary, tackling everything from pill testing to refugee rights.

Coverage of the Medevac bill shows clear lines of division in the press.

Asio director general Duncan Lewis describes leak on medevac bill as ‘seriously damaging’ The head of Australia’s spy agency has issued an extraordinary rebuke for the leak of departmental advice on the medevac bill to The Australian newspaper and misrepresen…

A Queensland Galaxy poll taken at the smae time shows a healthier lead for Labor - but more polls are needed to determine any trends in voting ahead of the federal election.

The defeat of the Government on the Medivac Bill is the potential precursor to its defeat in the upcoming election. read now...

With May's Federal Election looming, this Honest Government Ad decided that it was time to bring out the big guns when it comes to re-election - boat people. More »

Good morning. 1. It's going to be a slow start to the week for Aussie dollar traders. Most of the big market moving events, including from Australia, are later in the week, and today the US is celebrating President's Day holiday, meaning most US markets will …

The result will be a major fillip to government MPs, who are hoping the revival of the boats issue will swing public opinion in the Coalition's direct.

Hundreds of asylum seekers will undergo fresh screening as the Government prepares for an "influx" of medical transfers in the wake of the so-called medevac bill, Attorney-General Christian Porter says.

Hundreds of asylum seekers will undergo fresh screening as the Government prepares for an "influx" of medical transfers in the wake of the so-called "medevac" bill, Attorney-General Christian Porter says.

Comments come as Scott Morrison releases video he says is aimed at discouraging asylum seekers The prospect of a Labor government applying new rules for medical transfers to asylum seekers who arrive in future is “no less real” than the medevac bill which pas…