The Latest Breaking News from Coalition

This week’s Newspoll, conducted April 20-23 from a sample of 1,538, gave Labor a 53-47 lead, unchanged from last week. Primary votes were 37% Labor (up one), 36% Coalition (up one), 11% Greens (down one), 4% UAP (steady), 3% One Nation (down one) and 9% for all Others (steady).

Tuesday: AOC and Swimming Australia threaten legal action over billboards claiming ‘women’s sport is not for men’. Plus: the world’s richest man now owns Twitter

With wait times for elective surgeries in public hospital systems ballooning following lockdowns, some patients are self-funding their own procedures to try and skip the queue.

Deputy Labor leader was joined in Beijing in 2019 by Ted O’Brien who wrote a positive testimonial of the study tour

Seven-point plan also includes funding boosts for regional broadcasting and fight against illegal fishing

Swan and Hasluck could be among the seats to fall if Labor gets a swing just one-third as big as Mark McGowan’s at state level

Labor has maintained unchanged its solid two-party leads in both Newspoll and the Australian Financial Review’s Ipsos poll.

Following the controversy surrounding the signing of a security pact between Solomon Islands and China, Labor is set to announce a package of reforms to boost Australia's relationship with the Pacific.

Deputy Labor leader Richard Marles says Coalition ‘is a government which beats its chest’ but does not deliver

Standing in Queensland electorate of Flynn, Colin Boyce says Scott Morrison’s commitment to UN is ‘not binding’

A political scuffle over the Prime Minister's clumsy use of the word "blessed" has thrust the NDIS back into the spotlight and triggered important questions about the scheme's sustainability. However, they are questions that neither side of politics is yet prepared to answer.