The Latest Breaking News from Barnaby Joyce

Our one-time acting prime minister is the latest casualty of the decades-long feud between politicians and television sets.

Australian Jewish Association head David Adler has been slammed for posting ‘grotesque’ and ‘disgusting’ slurs over the colour of journalist Stan Grant’s skin, and a group of former Labor heavies has urged PM Anthony Albanese to push harder to get Julian Assange home before he dies.

Former deputy prime minister says ‘such is life’ after pub showed Australian team’s July friendly rather than thrilling Women’s World Cup quarter-final win over France

ACT chief prosecutor Shane Drumgold is reportedly accused by the Sofronoff inquiry of having ‘knowingly lied’ during the Bruce Lehrmann rape case, and the Finance Department spent $32,000 on an external consultant to get advice on external consultants.

Behind most policy disasters is a consultants’ report — usually a rosy one that insists all will be well. It’s time to look at the role of consultants in enabling bad policy.

Former Coalition Indigenous Australians spokesman Julian Leeser has accused the No campaign of using a trope of an ‘angry Aboriginal man’ to incite voters against the Voice, and new drugs offer hope of slowing the decline in dementia patients.

The former Nats leader was told it was a bad idea to move the pesticides regulator to his electorate, but he did it anyway.

The No campaign in the Indigenous Voice to Parliament debate has links with conservative Christian groups, including a US marketing and fundraising firm, and Labor’s social media misinformation bill has raised fears public debate could be stifled.

When far-right group Advance attacks Yes campaigners as ‘elites’, it would prefer you ignore that it is bankrolled by some of Australia’s most elite individuals.