UPDATE: Immigration Minister Alex Hawke has released the Biloela family from incarceration on Christmas Island but confined them to community detention in Perth while their court action proceeds.
Scott Morrison, who was embraced as a bro’ by Donald Trump, now seeks to become one of Joe Biden’s besties, writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.
This week the prime minister tried to hold out on giving assistance to Victorians, hoping the state’s latest lockdown would last only seven days. But he had to capitulate, writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.
In walking away from his defamation action against the ABC, cabinet minister Christian Porter has opened a fresh round in the battle over the allegation of historical rape against him by a now-deceased woman, writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.
Christian Porter settled for an ABC acknowledgement it hadn’t intended to suggest he was guilty and did not contend the accusations against him could be substantiated to a legal standard, writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.
The announcement the resident embassy in Afghanistan will be replaced after this week by fly-in-fly-out diplomacy has attracted very limited interest from the opposition, and even less debate, writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.
The Senate inquiry into the Christine Holgate affair has declared Prime Minister Scott Morrison, shareholder ministers and the Australia Post board should apologise to the former CEO, writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.
Australia will shut its residential embassy in Afghanistan before its troops leave the country, amid concerns of an expected worsening security situation, writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.
What’s dubbed “Fortress Australia” is objectively driven by the slowness of the vaccination rollout, which has Morrison under pressure, not least because it holds back the economy, writes political columnist MICHELLE GRATTAN.