After he stunned colleagues by quitting Sussan Ley’s frontbench on Friday, the WA MP’s exit opened the door to speculation about the Liberal leader’s position as MPs return to Canberra.

He is running against Labor’s Housing Minister John Carey for the inner-city electorate.

Federal opposition leader also doubles down on claim his nuclear plan would cut power bills by 44% despite Coalition’s own modelling being silent on issue

Patrick Gorman said that making cuts to the APS was a false way of selling economic management to the public.

The Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese, speaks in parliament on his government’s bid to ban under-16s from social media

The scheme will begin on December 14 and runs until February 5.

Parliament’s last sitting fortnight of the year is off to a depressing start for anyone deluded enough to think our politicians put national interests ahead of their own. The over-riding preoccupation...