Louise Milligan’s pivot from investigative journalist to fiction writer

Louise Milligan’s pivot from investigative journalist to fiction writer

The investigative reporter pulls back the curtain on crime,the media and policing in her compelling first novel,Pheasants Nest.

  • byKerrie O'Brien

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Attorney-General must approve journalist prosecutions under major secrecy overhaul

Attorney-General must approve journalist prosecutions under major secrecy overhaul

Journalists will not be prosecuted for breaching certain secrecy laws without the intervention of the Attorney-General,as part of a legal overhaul that will see criminal liability stripped from almost a fifth of Commonwealth of secrecy offences.

  • byAngus Thompson
Pharmacy Guild promotes Advance Australia founder to CEO

Pharmacy Guild promotes Advance Australia founder to CEO

Gerard Benedet,who ran conservative activist group Advance,will step up as the all-powerful Pharmacy Guild’s chief executive.

  • byKishor Napier-Raman andNoel Towell
2021:Christian Porter discontinues defamation action against ABC
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2021:Christian Porter discontinues defamation action against ABC

Christian Porter discontinues defamation action against the ABC and investigative journalist Louise Milligan.

Former ministers can bill taxpayers to challenge robo-debt findings

Former ministers can bill taxpayers to challenge robo-debt findings

Senior Liberal figures who gave evidence before the royal commission will be provided funding to challenge any findings handed down against them on Friday.

  • byAngus Thompson
Christian Porter to represent Russian oligarch with close Putin ties

Christian Porter to represent Russian oligarch with close Putin ties

Government sources said they would not criticise Porter because he would have been obliged to take up the case under the so-called “cab rank” rule for barristers.

  • byMatthew Knott
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Christian Porter marries his Byron bae

Christian Porter marries his Byron bae

The former attorney-general,who quit politics at the last election,quietly tied the knot with his criminal lawyer partner Karen Espiner in Byron Bay recently.

  • byKishor Napier-Raman andNoel Towell
‘Very frustrated’:Porter said he was sceptical about robo-debt talking points

‘Very frustrated’:Porter said he was sceptical about robo-debt talking points

Former Coalition social services minister Christian Porter says he became increasingly frustrated with the lack of clarity from bureaucrats.

  • byAngus Thompson
Alan Tudge,Christian Porter and Rachelle Miller to front robo-debt inquiry

Alan Tudge,Christian Porter and Rachelle Miller to front robo-debt inquiry

Liberal frontbencher Alan Tudge,his former staff member Rachelle Miller and former minister Christian Porter will all appear before the robo-debt royal commission.

  • byAngus Thompson
Porter in the court!
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Porter in the court!

The defence rests,and goes for a rub down.

The very private life of our newest High Court judge Jayne Jagot

The very private life of our newest High Court judge Jayne Jagot

Jayne Jagot is so protective of her privacy,a fellow judge joked about her being in witness protection.

  • byKishor Napier-Raman andNoel Towell