The Latest Breaking News from Scott Morrison

With the possibility of a hung parliament looming, Prime Minister Scott Morrison says he won’t negotiate with independents on policy.

The PM’s warning of ‘public autocracy’ is the plea of a man who can’t be trusted to be left alone to abuse power and resources.

Scott Morrison’s brand is so tainted in traditional Liberal strongholds he can’t step into them, let alone campaign in them.

Labor, which has promised to establish a national anti-corruption commission ‘with teeth’, says the PM’s comments show his ‘true colours are emerging now’

Inflation has been exacerbated by a budget that is pumping tens of billions of deficit spending into a low-unemployment economy.

Nala, 9, takes to social media to call on the Australian government to give more help to her father, who has been locked up in a Baghdad prison for more than a year.

An ABC analysis of advertising dollars being ploughed into social media campaigns by political parties reflects the key role Western Australia will play in the federal election.

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Good morning, early birds. Prime Minister Scott Morrison has said Australia could become an unrecognisable “public autocracy” if a national ICAC with influence was established, and the Coalition has announced it would freeze the pension-deeming rate for two years if elected. It’s the news you need to know, with Emma…

Josh Frydenberg says they are fake independents, John Howard called them anti-Liberal groupies, Scott Morrison points out they are only standing in Liberal seats, and that a vote for them is in fact a vote for Labor.

Vote Compass asked whether Australia should amend its constitution to establish a representative body to advise Parliament on laws and policies affecting Indigenous peoples — and there was clear support for the idea.