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Joe Kelly is The Australian’s Washington correspondent, covering news and politics from the US capital. He is an experienced political reporter, having previously been the masthead’s National Affairs Editor and Canberra bureau chief, having joined the parliamentary press gallery in 2010.

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16 Sept 2001 Fencing under construction at the planned asylum seekers village in Nauru. picRenee/Nowytarger boat people illegal migrants refugees off the Tampa / Manoora accommodation fence

Asylum seeker dies on Nauru

The Department of Home Affairs confirms a death on Nauru following reports a 26-year-old asylum seeker was found dead.

Joe Kelly

Treasury

PM Malcolm Turnbull holding a Press Conference at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture Kym Smith

Politicians handed salary surge

Politicians, senior bureaucrats and judges have won a pay rise despite a review noting low wage growth across the economy.

Joe Kelly

UPDATEDState Politics

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

Joyce defends abortion lobbying

Barnaby Joyce says he is entitled to lobby NSW Nationals to vote against a bill for ‘safe zones’ around abortion clinics.

Joe Kelly and Andrew Clennell

The World

Baker Jack Phillips, right, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop, hugs an unidentified man who was in Phillips' shop Monday, June 4, 2018, in Lakewood, Colo., after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that he could refuse to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple because his religious beliefs did not violate Colorado's anti-discrimination law. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Ruling is icing on cake

It took only 20 seconds for baker Jack Phillips to tell a gay couple he would not bake their wedding cake because of religious beliefs.

Cameron Stewart and Joe Kelly

National Affairs

23/5/18 One nation senator Pauline Hanson (centre) and One nation WA senator Peter Georgiou (left) during a press conference outside the banking and financial services royal commission in Melbourne. Aaron Francis/The Australian

Hanson ‘will have a party of one’

Former One Nation senator Fraser Anning has joined Bob Katter’s Australian Party.

Joe Kelly

UPDATEDNational Affairs

Pictured, Pauline Hanson, an Australian senator arrives at Heathrow Airport from Australia. picture David Dyson

Hanson ‘can’t get act together’

Tony Abbott says One Nation’s split on industrial relations demonstrates why voters should avoid minor parties.

Joe Kelly and PRIMROSE RIORDAN

inside storyNational Affairs

Sky News supplied screen grab of One Nation Party Leader, Pauline Hanson breaking down during The Bolt Report on Sky News over the ongoing issues with One Nation Senator Brian Burston. Supplied by Sky News

New party, same old betrayals

If anyone knows Pauline Hanson in all her perverse glory, it’s Brian Burston. Adding fuel to the fire now is Mark Latham.

Jamie Walker and Joe Kelly

National Affairs

Hanson set to lose another vote

One Nation is likely to lose another vote in Canberra after NSW senator Brian Burston threatened to serve as an independent.

Joe Kelly and Greg Brown

National Affairs

Senator Brian Burston asking questions at a Senate Committee into Rural and Regional Affairs, at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture Kym Smith

Burston rejects call to quit

Pauline Hanson has written to her One Nation senator and asked him to resign from the Senate – but he’s not budging.

Greg Brown and Joe Kelly

National Affairs

‘He’s stabbed me in the back’

In extraordinary scenes, Pauline Hanson has broken down on live TV as tensions threaten to tear apart her party | WATCH

Rachel Baxendale and Joe Kelly

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