The Latest Breaking News from Barnaby Joyce

The loud bloke in a hat’s increasingly pro-nuclear, anything-but-renewables stance is out of touch with his NSW electorate

In his relatively brief time as prime minister, Anthony Albanese has had very extensive contact with US President Joe Biden. According to the prime minister’s office, Albanese has had four formal meetings with him, plus two Quad meetings, and several other less formal discussions. They’ll rub shoulders again at the…

City records 158mm of rain in an hour, causing widespread flooding and disrupting road and rail traffic

Liberal leader says Coalition ‘committed’ to policy after Barnaby Joyce labelled its cost ‘utterly untenable’

Michaelia Cash insists Liberals are committed to 2050 goal under Peter Dutton as National party conference considers dropping the policy

Transport minister defends decision not to grant Qatar Airways additional capacity, claiming the request was ‘unprecedented’

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Cross-party delegation of Australian politicians to travel to US in attempt to build momentum against extraditing WikiLeaks founder

Three hundred people packed into Armidale town hall to hear the yes campaigner, four months after New England hosted no campaign event

Big policy ideas usually don’t come up in parliamentary valedictory speeches – they’re for saying goodbye and thank you. So departing Labour MP Jamie Strange was the exception last week when he made a case for New Zealand and Australia becoming one country.

In a week that left Joyce even more red-faced than usual, he wasn’t the only politician to find himself as a man out of time