Joe Kelly

Joe KellyNational Affairs editor

Joe Kelly is the National Affairs Editor. He joined The Australian in 2008 and since 2010 has worked in the parliamentary press gallery, most recently as Canberra Bureau chief.

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One Nation Senator Pauline Hanson is seen wearing a burqa during Senate Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra, Thursday, August 17, 2017. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

Hanson seeks ban on face cover

Pauling Hanson is seeking support to amend standing orders in the Senate and ban face coverings.

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Broadcast

Grant Blackley and Harold Mitchell attending 60 years of Australian Commercial Free-To-Air Television celebration event at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture Kym SmithPicture Kym Smith

Father’s Day ad stance defended

The chair of Free TV Australia has slammed the government’s postal plebiscite as ‘very expensive rubbish’.

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National Affairs

One Nation leader Senator Pauline Hanson in the Senate chamber at Parliament House in Canberra, Monday, September 4, 2017. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

Dress code ‘won’t stop rogues’

Weeks after being slapped down over her burka stunt, Senator Pauline Hanson may yet get her way.

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A 2017 advertisement celebrating Dads which usually airs around the time of Father's Day has had to be pulled as the organisation Dads4Kids was being required to declare it's interests in a politcal-style end-frame. This requirement was being imposed due to the ads coinciding with the postal vote on Same Sex Marriage.

Father’s Day now too ‘political’

A heart-tugging television commercial celebrating Father’s Day has been pulled after being deemed too ‘political’.

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exclusiveMining & Energy

Workers carry out maintenance work on high voltage power lines near Ray Jones Drive, Woree. Picture: Marc McCormack

The cost of going green: $60bn

Taxpayers will have paid more than $60 billion through federal renewable energy subsidies by 2030.

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Indigenous

FILE - In this Sept. 19, 2014, file photo, former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott speaks during a press conference, in Sydney. Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull confirmed Friday, Aug. 25, 2017, that his predecessor and intra-party rival Abbott had once been too drunk to vote in Parliament, an incident that's been a poorly kept secret in political circles for eight years.(AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, File)

‘Left capitulates on history’

Tony Abbott has rejected a plan to teach more indigenous history in primary schools as a ‘capitulation to the left’.

Greg Brown and Joe Kelly

National Affairs

Derryn Hinch's Justice Party Senator Derryn Hinch speaks to the media at Parliament House in Canberra, Thursday, August 10, 2017. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

Hinch US link ‘not an issue’

A Citizenship law expert doubts Derryn Hinch’s US social security card will be an issue as he moves to refer himself to High Court.

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Indigenous Affairs Minister and Senator for the Northern Territory Nigel Scullion before holding a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture Kym Smith

ALP onboard for pre-Cook history

Both Coalition and Labor MPs have embraced a plan to teach pre-Cook history in primary schools

Joe Kelly

The World

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrives for the official opening of the Ryomyong residential area, a collection of more than a dozen apartment buildings, on Thursday, April 13, 2017, in Pyongyang, North Korea. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

Turnbull warns Kim off ‘suicide’ attack

Malcolm Turnbull warns North Korea’s leader is ‘recklessly’ taking the region closer to a war that ‘he will lose instantly’.

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National Affairs

29/08/17 Cella White is concerned about what impact legalising same sex marriage might have in terms of what her children are taught at school. Aaron Francis/The Australian

School denies mum’s SSM claim

A principal has disputed a mother’s claim her son was told he could wear a dress to school, as aired in an anti-same sex marriage ad.

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