The Latest Breaking News from David Pocock

Labor’s budget criticised as Coalition and Greens say there is not enough cost-of-living help

Government’s gas tax only ‘tinkering around the edges’, David Pocock says; Victoria police apologise for systemic racism within force

Caught between sunny rhetoric and darker realities, Australia’s continued privileging of fossil fuel companies above the people will live in infamy.

The government will amend its housing fund to guarantee 1200 affordable and social homes to each state and territory following negotiations with the crossbench.

The independent regulator has disputed the NT government's claim that is met all the conditions to allow fracking in the Beetaloo Basin.

Lobbyists have taken advantage of the orange access passes to Parliament House, which allow them to roam the building freely.

Shadow attorney-general Michaelia Cash is accused of associating with the ‘far-right fringe’ after appearing on former Liberal senator Cory Bernardi’s Sky News show when the Voice to Parliament was compared with apartheid, and PM Anthony Albanese will publicly swear allegiance to King Charles III at Saturday’s coronation.

Albanese government risks being unfavourably compared to the Morrison government if it does not raise the payment for all, the key independent says

The finance minister says the government is looking seriously at a recommendation to expand the single-parenting payment to more mothers, acknowledging it is "hard" to live on the current JobSeeker rate.

Labor may be correct that it can’t solve poverty in one budget, but it has no excuse not to begin the process

Budgets are for stakeholders and interest groups like Christmas is for kids. They’re preceded by a multitude of letters to “Santa”, aka the treasurer, in the run-up.