Opposition leader Sussan Ley.

Ley condemns Coalition colleagues’ abortion comments as ‘insensitive’

Barnaby Joyce – who,along with Andrew Hastie,aired the issue during debate about Priya’s Bill last week – accused Ley of being disingenuous and misrepresenting their concerns.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos andBrittany Busch

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The Coalition’s new home affairs spokesman,Jonno Duniam,steps into the role during a period of tense debate.

With temperatures running high on immigration,the Coalition’s new shadow minister wants to lower the heat

Liberal Senator Jonno Duniam said he would do his part to calm debate but warned that Labor’s silence on migration targets was helping fuel conspiracies.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
Nationals leader David Littleproud and Senator Matt Canavan after a press conference following a party room meeting.

‘We’re not going to streak ahead’:Nationals officially dump net zero climate target

Nationals leader David Littleproud said his MPs had come to a unanimous position and would instead aim to bring down Australia’s carbon emissions in line with the rest of the world.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos,Brittany Busch andPaul Sakkal
Coalition MPs Barnaby Joyce and Andrew Hastie voted against the amendment,saying it could include “late-term abortions”.

Hastie,Joyce ignite late-term abortion fight over paid leave for stillbirth law

Four Coalition MPs have renewed a debate over “late-term abortions” in federal parliament,raising concern that laws guaranteeing paid leave for parents of stillborn children will be used by mothers whose pregnancies are terminated.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
Anthony Albanese disembarks from the RAAF plane in the Joy Division t-shirt last Thursday.

Ley attacks PM’s Joy Division shirt over antisemitic connotations

The acclaimed post-punk band’s name comes from a term for sexual slavery in concentration camps.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos,James Massola andShane Wright
Optus will have to comply with the legislation.

Telcos forced to make network outages public in real time after Optus scandal

The real-time register could operate similarly to how energy companies provide live information and maps about outages on their websites.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
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Climate 200-backed independent candidate for Wannon,Alex Dyson,has a strong ground game but faces an uphill battle to defeat the Liberals in the regional Victorian seat for the first time since the 1950s.

$27m war chest:The independents who raised the most money at the election

Candidates with the biggest financial backing failed to get elected at the May election as Climate 200 and individual donors poured a record $27 million into community independent campaigns.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos andMillie Muroi
Billionaire Canva co-founder Cliff Obrecht made a donation of at least $500,000 to Climate 200.

Canva co-founder and Greens donor add to Climate 200 fundraising heft

The fundraising vehicle tripled its number of donors to 33,000 people,and received $5 million between seven key contributors,as it expanded to back 35 candidates.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
Tony Burke gave his first National Press Club address since he became Home Affairs minister last year,taking responsibility for a range of sensitive political issues.

Burke says there’s ‘not a magic number’ in immigration debate

The home affairs minister acknowledged Australians were “deeply feeling the housing shortage” while lashing the opposition for taking a fact-free approach to public debate.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
The University of Sydney was the only one of 32 universities to have their request for extra international students knocked back.

Sydney Uni singled out to get no extra international students next year

The sandstone university was the only institution to be knocked back in its bid to host a share of 17,500 extra foreign student places.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos