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Greg Brown is the Canberra Bureau chief. He previously spent five years covering federal politics for The Australian where he built a reputation as a newsbreaker consistently setting the national agenda.

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Former Sky news commentator, Craig Emerson. Emerson quit over an interview with neo-Nazi Blair Cottrell aired on Sky. Source: ABC

Labor big guns lead poll post mortem

A Gillard government cabinet minister and Jay Weatherill will head a wide-ranging review of Labor’s disastrous election loss.

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Minister for Home Affairs Peter Dutton in Question Time in the House of Representatives Chamber, at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture Kym Smith

Medivac laws await scrutiny

The Morrison government’s push to repeal the medivac laws will be delayed until at least late October.

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Bill Shorten speaks during condolence motion for former Prime Minister Bob Hawke in the House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture Kym Smith

‘Alarm’ as NDIA officials walk out

Bill Shorten has voiced alarm at the resignations of four senior National Disability Insurance Agency officials in a week.

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PM lauds Hawke ‘romance’

It was the day Bob Hawke ruled Canberra again, as the new parliament honoured a dearly-departed PM.

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Minister for Defence Industry Christopher Pyne is seen during the First Arafura class Patrol vessel keel-laying ceremony at the Osborne shipyards, Adelaide, Friday, May 10, 2019. The first two patrol boats will be constructed at the Osborne shipyards before the work on the $3.6 billion project moves to Western Australia for the remaining 10. (AAP Image/David Mariuz) NO ARCHIVING

Pyne fails the ‘pub test’

Liberal MP attacks Christopher Pyne for taking a new job as a defence consultant.

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AAP / MANLY DAILY. Newly elected member for Warringah Zali Steggall outside Parliament House in Canberra on the first day of the 46th Australian Parliament, 2 July 2019. (AAP IMAGE/SEAN DAVEY)

Steggall set for Libs?

Independent MP Zali Steggall is not ruling out a switch to the Liberal Party before the next election.

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Day set aside for Hawke tributes

Parliament will pause today as politicians across the aisle pay tribute to Australia’s 23rd prime minister, Bob Hawke.

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SPECIAL FOR ADELAIDE ADVERTISER ONLY - FOR FUTURE COLUMNS AND ARTICLES - Retiring SA Politicians Christopher Pyne and Kate Ellis at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture Kym Smith

MP gives Pyne job inquiry a nudge

A parliamentary inquiry into Christopher Pyne’s new job is closer to reality with a senior Labor frontbencher backing the probe.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - JULY 01: The Prime Minister of Australia Scott Morrison (R) and opposition leader Anthony Albanese (L) shake hands at a reception in the Members Hall after Govenor General David Hurley AC DSC was sworn in as the Governor General at Parliament House on July 01, 2019 in Canberra, Australia. David Hurley, former New South Wales governor and former defence force chief is replacing outgoing Governor General Peter Cosgrove. (Photo by Tracey Nearmy-Pool/Getty Images)

New G-G: Australia is ‘unfinished’

New Governor-General David Hurley has vowed to put community engagement on par with his constitutional duties.

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Shadow Minister for Finance Jim Chalmers talks with the costings panel in Chris Bowen's office ahead of the Press conference on budget costings at Parliament House in Canberra, Friday, May 10, 2019. (AAP Image/Rohan Thomson) NO ARCHIVING

‘We will consider our options’

Labor’s caucus has left the door open to ultimately backing Scott Morrison’s $158bn income tax package if its amendments fail.

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