The Latest Breaking News from Christian Porter

As home affairs minister, Peter Dutton blocked high-priority grant requests to prevent crime in some Indigenous communities in favour of projects in Coalition seats, and Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis makes big news by admitting Donald Trump didn’t win the 2020 election: ‘Of course he lost.’

But the total costs are likely to far exceed those reported to the Senate last week, given the limited scope of the question being answered.

From the robodebt fallout to attacks on the Indigenous Voice to Parliament, politics in this country is falling to new lows.

The robodebt royal commission recommended scrapping a rule that allows the government to chase debtors in perpetuity. Labor voted against it.

Former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann will sue for compensation if a report finds ACT chief prosecutor Shane Drumgold acted with ‘malice’, and social anthropologist Peter Sutton says he was ‘set up’ in an ABC doco on Bruce Pascoe’s book Dark Emu.

Peter Dutton wants to portray the government as too focused on the voice, but while an Aston-style upset is unlikely, the opposition leader is still on thin ice

Gordon Legal, which previously ran a $1.8bn class action, hopes federal government will reach out-of-court settlement offering further compensation

The hollowing-out of the AAT — and the Abbott government’s disbanding of the ARC — rendered guards for welfare participants impotent.

Unless agencies take up the commissioner’s invitation to prosecute, who is most to blame could remain sealed away in the report’s ‘confidential chapter’

Anthony Albanese highlights commission’s ‘extraordinary’ conclusion that former PM’s evidence was ‘untrue’

'I was treated as a cheat and somebody who was trying to get money out of the government.'