June 2024
Unpicking the war of words on weapons exports to Israel
The opaqueness of Australia’s arms control regime means what the country is actually sending to Israel is largely unknown.
- Andrew Tillett
May 2024
Greens will demand Palestinian statehood if there’s a hung parliament
As political skirmishing over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict continued, immigration officials revealed more than 60 per cent of visa applications by Gazans are being rejected.
- Andrew Tillett
March 2024
In future, banks won’t need to see your licence to give you a loan
Laws allowing people to verify their identity online, rather than handing over documents, are set to win Senate support after Labor agreed to amendments.
- Tom Burton
January 2024
- Opinion
- Greens
Labor needs to call out the cynical, posturing Greens
The Greens are increasingly shaping policy in Australia, but very little accountability is demanded on them by other parties.
- Nick Dyrenfurth
September 2023
- Exclusive
- Defence
Bungled navy warship referred to anti-corruption watchdog
Greens senator David Shoebridge says the process of picking the winner of the $45 billion future frigate contract should be examined.
- Andrew Tillett
August 2023
Inquiry questions Musk’s approach to sharing child abuse material on X
Executives at X, formerly Twitter, have told parliament it takes down child abuse material but gives a second chance to accounts that share it to create outrage.
- Nick Bonyhady
June 2023
- Opinion
- Roberts-Smith case
The reckoning from Roberts-Smith’s disgrace is still to come
Politicians who are happy to send troops to fight and exploit jingoist sentiment never know what to do with the ugly outcomes.
- Updated
- Laura Tingle
‘Too early to strip Roberts-Smith of Victoria Cross, war medals’
The government believes it would take a criminal finding against Ben Roberts-Smith to strip him of his medals.
- Phillip Coorey
May 2023
- Updated
- PwC tax scandal
PwC behind 15 schemes to sidestep tax, says ATO
Commissioner Chris Jordan told a parliamentary committee late on Wednesday a handful of firms stood to gain $180 million annually at the expense of Australian taxpayers.
- Neil Chenoweth and Edmund Tadros
‘Gobsmacked’: tribunal panic after judge’s resignation
The sudden resignation of the president of the AAT led to tears and panic, Senate estimates has been told.
- Michael Pelly
No shortage of landlords in Labor or the Greens
Residential property ownership (or the lack of it) divides Australia along generational lines, a truth as evident within political parties as outside them.
- Myriam Robin
April 2023
Dissenting politicians join young activists to oppose TikTok bans
A small but diverse group of politicians speak out against restrictions to the Chinese-owned video app.
- Yuan Yang
October 2022
MP’s sympathy for bureaucrat in NACC ‘hot seat’
Full marks to bureaucrat Sarah Chidgey for her turn at the parliamentary inquiry into the national corruption commission.
- Michael Pelly
‘Sit-and-steer job’ for integrity committee head
Senator Linda White is new to parliament, but she is the only Labor member of the parliamentary committee reviewing the NACC bill who is a lawyer.
- Michael Pelly
February 2022
Former Treasury chief accuses NSW auditor of throwing ‘grenade’
In a combative parliamentary hearing, former NSW Treasury chief Mike Pratt has denied a new transport agency has created a multibillion-dollar budget hole.
- Tom Burton
96pc of NSW grants program spent in Coalition seats
Labor and the Greens want the NSW government to overhaul rules for allocating grants as Auditor-General report makes a “scathing” finding on pork-barrelling.
- Finbar O'Mallon
November 2021
NSW Transport chief sacked for resisting calls to redact KPMG figures
Rodd Staples raised safety and financial issues about a new transport asset agency and refused to remove KPMG modelling suggesting major economic costs.
- Tom Burton and Edmund Tadros
- Opinion
- Big four accountants
Inquiry to scrutinise consultants in $40b ‘vehicle for deception’
At a powerful parliamentary inquiry today into a rail entity set up to artificially inflate NSW’s budget, the big four firms will be hauled into the spotlight.
- Adele Ferguson
October 2020
NSW Premier's office tried to stop evidence from staffer
The NSW Premier's department tried to argue a staffer who shredded documents relating to a government grants program would be "unable to assist" a parliamentary inquiry into the program. Labor says it "looks like a conspiracy."
- Finbar O'Mallon
Berejiklian's staff destroyed documents used to rubber-stamp 'rort'
A senior policy adviser says the working advice notes were used to approve the projects, and paper copies were later shredded and digital copies deleted.
- Updated
- Finbar O'Mallon