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Former NSW Nationals MP Michael Johnsen.

Police hold ‘serious concerns’ over missing former Nationals MP

Barnaby Joyce said he ‘hoped and prayed’ for news of Michael Johnsen, a former state MP whom police said was last seen in Tamworth on Friday.

  • Michael McGowan

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Girls Grammar player Rosemary Schweizer runs down the court.

Cash-strapped public schools don’t have a sporting chance

Private schools have great facilities, their own buses and can pay coaches, thanks in part to increased federal funding, says Mary Billings.

Pauline Hanson says she and Barnaby Joyce are “on the same page”.

‘I like what he stands for’: Hanson says she did try to woo Joyce for One Nation

The One Nation leader says asked the former Nationals leader to join her party after he was filmed mumbling obscenities while lying on a Canberra street.

  • Paul Sakkal
Barnaby Joyce and David Littleproud are rivals in the National Party.

‘Barnaby rule’ hides former deputy PM in his seat

The National Party has hidden former leader Barnaby Joyce by creating a rule that effectively bars him from making political trips outside his seat.

  • Paul Sakkal
My alternative person of the year is Gisele Pelicot, centre, but my object of the year is the camera her husband used to record her many rapes, allowing her ultimately to bring him and 50 other men to justice; the other objects, clockwise from bottom left, are: Donald Trump’s ear bandage; Raygun’s Olympic uniform; the planter box that took down Barnaby Joyce; police officer Amy Scott’s courage award; Bruce Lehrmann’s metaphorical hat; and the bullet casings left behind by alleged killer Luigi Mangione.

The objects of 2024 and the people they made – or brought down

We know the supposed Person of the Year, but let’s look at the objects of 2024 – from the planter box that brought down Barnaby Joyce to the video camera that brought 51 men to justice.

  • Julia Baird
Peter Dutton is likely to announce a reshuffle before Christmas.

Dutton to revamp his election-year frontbench as MPs head for exits

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton will unveil a revamped frontbench as soon as this weekend, in a shake-up to replace two shadow ministers and promote younger MPs.

  • Nick Bonyhady and James Massola
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The rate of solar installation worldwide is accelerating as production skyrockets and costs fall.

Booming solar industry will make nuclear power obsolete

In 2023, China installed as much solar capacity as the entire world did in 2022.

Illustration: Dionne Gain

Settle Barnaby, the teal tidal wave’s unlikely to reach Tamworth

The former deputy PM has delivered an alarming warning to his constituents about independents: imagine if we had 151 of them in our national parliament.

  • Malcolm Knox
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price at the ARC Conference on Tuesday.

Price was courageous to debate abortion issue, says pro-life Joyce

The former deputy prime minister pushed back against shadow cabinet colleagues who say abortion is a state rather than federal issue.

  • Paul Sakkal
Sticks and stones … Opposition Leader Peter Dutton, Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke.

The sooks of parliament revive an old playground sneer

The would-be bruisers of federal parliament turn to that old taunt of schoolkids: “sook”. And manage to consign it to the unparliamentary language bin.

  • Tony Wright

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