Perin Davey
Frequent flyer Kim Williams racks up $50,000 travel budget
The ABC chair has been vocal and active since landing the top job last year. And that means plenty of taxpayer-funded travel.
- Kishor Napier-Raman, Stephen Brook and Gemma Grant
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Joyce, McKenzie jostle to keep Coalition frontbench roles after election
Nationals frontbenchers are hustling to keep their positions after the election as tensions flare again between party leader David Littleproud and predecessor Barnaby Joyce.
- James Massola
- Exclusive
- Resolve Political Monitor
Voters back drug and alcohol tests for politicians
Only 4 per cent of voters in the Resolve Political Monitor said it was “fine” for politicians to drink at work, while 68 per cent said they should not drink at all when working.
- David Crowe
- Analysis
- Workplace culture
Parliament vowed to sober up two years ago. It’s time everyone got the memo
A report was released in November 2021 which was supposed to draw a line under the boozy culture on the hill. Some MPs are dragging their heels.
- James Massola
- Exclusive
- Political leadership
Nationals MP Davey helped write new alcohol rules for parliament
Perin Davey, who was caught on camera slurring her words at Senate estimates last week, is a key member of the group tasked with writing federal parliament’s tough new alcohol and drugs policy.
- Olivia Ireland and James Massola
‘You don’t go to get on the turps’: Nats defend staff drinks amid MP, Joyce furore
Perin Davey says she didn’t think she was drunk after stumbling in her speech during a parliamentary hearing, days after Barnaby Joyce was filmed lying on a Canberra footpath.
- Angus Thompson and James Massola
Senator Perin Davey at estimates
Nationals senator Perin Davey's appearance at estimates has caused controversy.
Plibersek’s last gasp effort to stop Murray-Darling plan from sinking
The water minister has just two weeks to save the Murray-Darling Basin Plan. She must cut a deal with the Greens or Coalition, who are demanding concessions.
- Mike Foley
‘They didn’t join the army to mop up’: Natural disasters strain Defence Force
Australian soldiers are now responding to natural disasters so often that an entirely new branch of the Defence Force may be needed, Senator Jacqui Lambie says.
- Matthew Knott
$1.8 billion plan to help save Murray Darling river system set to fail
A report predicts rule changes championed by the Nationals spell failure for an environmental initiative the Albanese government promised to deliver.
- Mike Foley
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