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The Brittany Higgins saga has damaged almost everyone it has touched, or who’s touched it.

Shadow attorney general says Katy Gallagher has questions to answer about her knowledge of the claim before it became public

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Finance Minister Katy Gallagher has denied both misleading parliament over the Brittany Higgins case and politically 'weaponising' the issue

Finance minister says she was in contact with David Sharaz but did not know the full allegations or decide ‘to weaponise’ them

Coalition presses finance minister over her comment to Senate estimates that ‘no one had any knowledge’ before rape allegation was made public

Exclusive: Former PM warned cabinet ministers over China, Pacific and US hegemony in lead-up to his pointed speech at National Press Club

The Greens adopt a new party position on Palestine and Israel, saying Israel is practising the "crime of apartheid".

Relations between a centrist Labor government feeling its way and an ascendant Greens party have become surprisingly strained of late.

Sydney man Mohammad Hashemi's cousin Majid Kazemi was executed after a "forced confession and sham trial". He says if the Australian government is serious about stopping the Islamic Republic's human rights abuses, it will cut ties with Iran and list their military arm as a terrorist organisation.

Something rather important has been overlooked in the first anniversary of the election – Anthony Albanese’s takeover of the Labor Party.