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Samantha MaidenNational political editor

Samantha Maiden is the political editor for news.com.au. She has also won three Walkleys for her coverage of federal politics including the Gold Walkley in 2021. She was also previously awarded the Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year, Kennedy Awards Journalist of the Year and Press Gallery Journalist of the Year. A press gallery veteran, she has covered federal politics for more than 20 years.

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BreakingPolitics

Labor frontbencher sensationally quits

Labor frontbencher Joel Fitzgibbon has sensationally quit Anthony Albanese’s frontbench amid an internal war in the party.

Current Affairs

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA-NCA NewsWire Photos: 28 OCTOBER 2020.The Prime Minister Scott Morrison with Christian Porter, The Leader of the House and Attorney General during a press conference in Parliament House Canberra.NCA NewsWire / Gary Ramage

‘Totally false’: Attorney-General hits back

Attorney-General Christian Porter has come out swinging at the ABC, branding claims about him as “totally false” and is considering legal action.

Current Affairs

ABC chair Ita Buttrose has pleaded with older Australians not to miss crucial health appointments during coronavirus lockdown. Picture: Supplied

Ita’s call on ‘sex scandal’ story

ABC chair Ita Buttrose watched the Four Corners report on an alleged sex scandal involving Liberal Party figures before it went to air.

Politics

Minister Alan Tudge and staffer Rachelle Miller. Picture: Four Corners/ABC

Staffer reveals affair with minister

A former press secretary to a government minister has revealed details of their affair in the “highly sexualised” Canberra environment in a bombshell interview.

EXCLUSIVEPolitics

Screen grabs of Vikki Campion and Barnaby Joyce during their first interview since the birth of their baby - interviewed on Channel Seven’s Sunday Night program, 03 June 2018. Credit: Channel 7

‘There are others’: Joyce’s shock sex claim

Barnaby Joyce has revealed he warned Malcolm Turnbull other politicians were having sex with staffers, and now they could be exposed.

Politics

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NCA NewsWire Photos SEPTEMBER, 25, 2020: Former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is seen leaving the State funeral for former NSW Premier, The Honourable John Fahey AC, at St Mary's Cathedral in Sydney. Picture: NCA NewsWire/POOL/Bianca De Marchi

Canberra’s sex and booze culture exposed

Ex-PM Malcolm Turnbull is set to lift the lid on the culture of “boozing and screwing staff” in an explosive Four Corners tonight.

Leaders

Former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd is seen addressing attendees during CEDA's 2020 Economic and Political Overview (EPO) in Sydney, Wednesday, February 12, 2020. (AAP Image/Joel Carrett) NO ARCHIVING

Rudd to Trump: ‘Put your big boy pants on’

Kevin Rudd has joined the chorus of people demanding that President Trump accept the results of the 2020 election and concede.

EXCLUSIVEHealth & Safety

Leaked text at centre of premiers’ feud

A text sent by Gladys Berejiklian to Annastacia Palaszczuk has shed new light on the bitter war of words between the two premiers.

US Politics

Joe Hockey Joins Sky News Australia_US Political Contributor

Joe Hockey’s ‘embarrassing’ election call

Australia’s former ambassador to the US has copped a stinging backlash to his claims electoral fraud is “for sure” a factor in some of America’s results.

US Politics

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos. November 5, 2020Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison makes a covid vaccine research announcement with Scientia Clinical Research Ltd at Nelune Comprehensive Cancer Centre in Randwick, NSW. November 5, 2020. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Dylan Coker

PM declines to condemn Trump speech

Scott Morrison has declined to criticise President Donald Trump’s call to stop the votes urging “patience” and praising the US as a “great democracy”.

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