Karen Middleton

ALP denies reforms rushed into parliament are designed to target Simon Holmes à Court and Clive Palmer

Treasury confirms cheques will stay in circulation until 2029 but then cease to be accepted as legal tender

Minor party’s offer, which includes ban on native-forest logging, represents its second concession on stalled legislation in less than a week

Some of Australia's most prominent authors are among a group of more than 90 writers and literary supporters who have paid for every federal

Almost half of Australians think immigration is too high while financial pressures are ‘stubbornly common’, annual Mapping Social Cohesion survey finds

Shipyards will not meet goal of 1.5 boats a year by 2025 to be on track to provide Australia with three Virginia-class submarines, program chief says

Senator Larissa Waters plans to move motion to vote to discharge abortion bill sponsored by Matt Canavan and Alex Antic

Bill Shorten notes a string of proud policy achievements and recalls the uproar when he tackled a sausage sandwich side-on as he farewells parliament

With Peter Dutton growing in confidence, Labor needs more than just a blizzard of new laws to show voters that it can put the country on the right track

Guardian Australia’s political editor Karen Middleton speaks with the federal minister for social services about what’s being done to safeguard funding for services against future changes in government