Dangerous, vicious: Porter claims can’t be substantiated
The rape accusation is now politically weaponised. This is not just about Christian Porter — it is about justice and lawful process.
Christian Porter
Shadows over role a cruel legacy
The allegations against the Attorney-General will cast a shadow over his job, and could mean his position is untenable.
Porter takes mental-health break
Christian Porter will not step down as Attorney-General but will take a ‘short period of leave’ to improve his mental health after denying allegations he raped of a young woman in 1988.
Labor lashes PM, calls for an inquiry
Anthony Albanese has escalated the political row over the Morrison government’s handling of the alleged rape.
Grace Tame lashes Morrison over sex abuse comments
Australian of the Year lashes PM’s response to alleged rape, saying ‘it shouldn’t take children to have a conscience’.
Rape trial by media is a threat to justice
The cabinet minister will clear the legal hurdle because the case against him lacks sufficient evidence. The real question is will he clear the political hurdle?
Accused minister prepares to identify himself
The Morrison government minister accused of raping a woman when he was a teenager will today publicly declare his innocence.
Union boss calls on ACTU to oppose miners
CFMEU leader says a mining division chief should ‘hang his head in shame’ over secret talks with Christian Porter over union laws.
Shorten case a perfect template
Bill Shorten’s experience shows there’s a proper response to historical rape allegations: and it’s not what we’ve seen recently.
ABC ignored plea from family
The family of the woman who alleged she was raped by a Lib minister asked the ABC not to broadcast the claims, friends say.
Rape accuser left behind a trail of her misery
Trove of documents and recordings left behind by woman allegedly raped by man now a cabinet minister surfaces, as Malcolm Turnbull reveals she sought his help.
No more Porter jokes this year? Happy days
And lo, it came to pass that the final question time of 2020 kicked off with an argument about whether a motorcycle can jump a shark. Oh, the irony!
Porter’s union divorce plan solves multiple problems
Christian Porter’s new strategy against the CFMEU represents a significant tactical shift that opens the way for the break-up of the militant union.
Porter prepares ‘get Setka’ law
The Morrison government will propose laws to allow the break-up of the CFMEU.
ABC hatchet job a political ‘gotcha’
As if to fill the comic vacuum left by Donald Trump, along comes Aunty and its reporter Louise Milligan to trash some reputations.
‘A political attack dressed up as moral outrage’
Readers have their say on the Coalition backed into a corner on bonking, and Joel Fitzgibbon’s coal-fuelled dummy spit.
Reasons Porter cannot be compared to Hawke do not stand up to scrutiny
No one dared call Bob Hawke deeply sexist or misogynist.
Besmirching ministers’ reputations reprehensible
Is it just Turnbull getting back at Porter for challenging him over Peter Dutton?
Labor, Greens ‘should adopt bonk ban’
Scott Morrison has urged Labor and the Greens to ban senior MPs from having sex with their staff but says he won’t discipline Christian Porter and Alan Tudge.
The complex union ruse that’s costing us jobs
The national interest has never been the industrial relations club’s concern; it’s been fixated on its continued existence and cashing in on a complicated system.
A decline in quality of ministers
The Prime Minister’s shake-up of the bureaucracy masks a deeper problem.
Porter’s privacy breach
Who knew the one thing that could unite multicultural leaders was a privacy breach?
On track with religious freedom
The proposed religious freedom legislation strikes the right balance.
Turnbull’s stunning fall: ‘This is crazy’
Critical interventions during those days of madness cruelled a PM’s hopes of survival.
Christian Porter signs up to galactic rebellion
Who’d have thought he’d join the side sticking it to the government of the day?
What G-G may have done
If the Libs picked Dutton as leader and Turnbull went to the G-G, what would’ve happened next?
Raids smack of totalitarianism
The AFP raids remind us of communist East Germany.
We can’t afford to lose good MPs
It will be the country’s loss if Frydenberg and Porter are defeated.
Shorten a ‘hypocrite’ over Huang
Attorney-General Christian Porter has accused Bill Shorten of being a hypocrite over Chinese tycoon Huang Xiangmo.
Porter ‘wrong on all fronts’: Carr
Bob Carr has lashed out at Attorney-General Christian Porter over comments about him leaving the Australian-China Relations Institute.
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