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The Melbourne outer suburban seat of Aston, set for a byelection after former Liberal minister Alan Tudge’s resignation, has already made its mark on history.

As Lidia Thorpe prepared for political life after the Greens and as a Senate cross-bencher, veterans have questioned whether she can cut it as an independent.

Anthony Albanese has pledged an initial $10m in humanitarian assistance after the earthquakes

Senate motion to extend Nauru for offshore processing

Labor also seeks to overturn court decision that forced it to release 100 people from onshore detention despite character concerns

Senator Lidia Thorpe announced on Monday that she would be leaving the Greens. Thorpe had split with the Greens over the Indigenous Voice to parliament, which she opposes.

Revelation likely to add to transparency stakeholders calls’ for caps on political donations

Mineralogy was the single biggest political donor last financial year, pouring $116 million into Queensland businessman Clive Palmer's United Australia Party. Both Labor and the Liberals each received more than $100 million in donations.

Former prime minister Tony Abbott is among a group of advisers to a conservative lobby group that last month was found to have published false information about the Voice to Parliament proposal in Facebook ads.

Australia’s population will be four per cent or 1.2 million people smaller and older on average than predicted at the end of the decade due to the COVID pandemic's effect on immigration and birth rates.

Documents obtained by the ABC show the original business case for a "sustainable" development precinct proposed for Darwin Harbour described it as a "new gas demand centre", prompting critics to question the environmental merits of a project that has received $1.5 billion in federal funding.