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The Albanese government has something of an embarrassment of intellectual riches, with no less than three of its MPs holding PhDs in economics. Two of them, Andrew Charlton and Andrew Leigh, are also prolific authors with at least a dozen books between them.

Former ALP politician Ian Macdonald denies in the NSW Supreme Court that he did anything wrong by awarding a coal exploration licence to an ex-union boss.

When the Liberal Party’s most senior right-wing figure, Peter Dutton, forced a leadership spill in 2018, ending Malcolm Turnbull’s premiership, even some moderates in the party room preferred him over the hyper-ambitious Scott Morrison. Yet it was to the latter they reluctantly turned, judging him less frightening to voters.

The highest individual donation was more than $27,000.

Skills and training minister says ‘we want to see more women in construction and in the traditional trades’

About bloody time.

David Hurley had discussions with Scott Morrison about leadership program that later received one-off funding before it was operational

Northern Territory party conference passes string of motions urging a ban on fracking and an end to gas industry subsidies

A day after Mr Latham accused Anna Watson of attempting to drive while "paralytically drunk", Mr Hazzard has accused the One Nation MP of targeting women in parliament.