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Greg BrownCanberra Bureau chief

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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Immigration

Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks during a joint press conference with his New Zealand counterpart Jacinda Ardern in Auckland on February 22, 2019. - Morrison is in New Zealand to hold bilateral talks with his Kiwi counterpart Jacinda Ardern. (Photo by Diego OPATOWSKI / AFP)

Medivac bill dooms NZ option

The Coalition has hardened its stance against an offer to resettle 150 refugees a year, saying new medivac laws have sunk the idea.

Primrose Riordan and Greg Brown

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President of the Australian Human Rights Commission, Gillian Triggs appearing at a Senate Estimates committee at Parliament House in Canberra.

Triggs throws her support behind Greens candidate

Gillian Triggs has revealed she is backing the Greens candidate in her home seat in the federal election due by May.

Greg Brown

Mining & Energy

China’s steel sector is demanding ore imports with higher iron content, leading to pile-ups in port cities of lower-grade imports. Shown, workers prepare ore from Australia to be transported from a port in Tianjin. PHOTO: VINCENT DU/REUTERS

China coal ban sparks confusion

Trade officials are urgently trying to clarify if Australian coal has been banned from a key Chinese port.

Greg Brown and Primrose Riordan

Indigenous

Labor backbencher Jenny Jacklin delivers her valedictory speech in the House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra, Wednesday, February 20, 2019. AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

Give indigenous a voice, says teary Macklin

Outgoing Labor MP Jenny Macklin has called on the parliament to ‘get on’ with backing an indigenous voice to parliament.

Greg Brown

National Affairs

‘Don’t let them give up on us’

Lamenting the public’s loss of faith, Jenny Macklin left Canberra a challenge: rebuild trust and “get on with” giving parliament an indigenous voice.

Greg Brown

National Affairs

Senator Michaelia Cash appearing at Senate Estimates at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture Kym Smith

Cash contradicts AFP evidence

Michaelia Cash has denied she refused to provide a statement to the AFP regarding the media tip-off on the AWU raids.

Greg Brown

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Wayne Swan delivering his Valedictory speech in the House of Representatives Chamber at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture Kym Smith

Swansong of parting shots

Wayne Swan used his farewell speech to wish the Morrison government “a sound defeat” and slam “race-based dog-whistle politics”.

Greg Brown

National Affairs

Kate Ellis and her family, Sam 3yrs old, Charlie 1yr old, at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture Kym Smith

Ellis happy to leave with Labor’s house in order

Labor MP Kate Ellis yesterday said she felt comfortable in stepping away from politics given the increase in female MPs.

Greg Brown

Immigration

Senate Estimates AFP in Parliament House in Canberra.Home Affairs Department Secretary Michael Pezzullo. Picture Gary Ramage

Pezzullo’s warning on medivac

The Home Affairs secretary says the Labor-backed medivac bill could amount to the “effective unravelling of regional processing”.

Greg Brown

National Affairs

Paul Oosting and Alice Drury from Get up appearing at a Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters, an Inquiry into and report on all aspects of the conduct of the 2016 Federal Election and matters related thereto, at Parliament House in Canberra.

GetUp’s victory over ‘far right’

The Australian Electoral Commission has declared the left-wing activist group had no association with Labor or the Greens.

Greg Brown

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