The Latest Breaking News from Scott Morrison

Greens senator David Shoebridge says grant impacts ‘independence’ of governor general’s office and Scott Morrison should have rejected requests for support

Former prime minister says he does not want to engage with those ‘having a big crack at me’ in first TV interview since revelations

The cuts benefit the wealthy over the strugglers, ploughing fertile ground for conspiracy theorists to accuse MPs of looking after themselves

This is a story about a story that nobody else seems to think is a story. When the story is about the Governor-General’s rather odd $18 million pet

This article is part of The Conversation’s series looking at Labor’s jobs summit. Read the other articles in the series here.

Swathes of national broadsheet devoted to covering guilty verdict in Teacher’s Pet case, while behind the scenes many staff packed up their desks. Plus: date night for Morrison and Murray

The deputy Liberal leader has been taken to task over the ‘totally wrong, wholly incorrect’ claim that no one is making electric utes

When stories about former Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s secret ministerial roles emerged, John Howard was called on by all and sundry for comment. For some, Howard represents stability, convention and commonsense liberalism, a Menzies in our own time. (It is a parallel Howard has carefully cultivated).

The solicitor-general’s recent finding that former Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s furtive accrual of ministerial portfolios “fundamentally undermined” the principles of responsible government has drawn attention to the precarity of democracy. In seeking to safeguard our democracy, we must consider the extent to which Australians’ long-standing apathy about our democratic system…