Liberal Party

Australia is one of the very few liberal democracies without a general bill of rights. We need one. Australia's defamation laws are appallingly restrictive.

SLOWLY BUT SURELY — The House leaders are at it again. A day after they agreed to whisk a conversion therapy ban bill to the Senate — a tour de force of parliamentary kumbaya after weeks of bitter post-election acrimony — the Commons scrounged out a way to debate CHRYSTIA …

Local party members are worried that the Liberal Party executive will install NSW MP Andrew Constance, who is the preferred pick of Prime Minister Scott Morrison.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison said he was "surprised" to learn a Liberal Senator who he understood to be fully vaccinated was required to quarantine after arriving back into South Australia.

Defence Minister Peter Dutton has hit back at criticisms of Alan Tudge, insisting his ministerial colleague is an “honourable and decent man”.

Liberal Senator Alex Antic appears to have been caught out by South Australia’s border changes that took effect late last month.

Instead of exchanging gifts and holiday cheers, South Australia's Labor and Liberal parties are exchanging blows after the government failed to declare Christmas Day a public holiday. Christmas Day falls on a Saturday this year,

Blocking charities from lobbying on “political” issues such as climate change is a blow to a liberal democracy and to our children’s futures. It is increasingly clear that the greatest threat facing humanity is the firestorm of crises that make up the climate emergency.

Former Liberal staffer Rachelle Miller, who accused federal minister Alan Tudge of abusing her during a consensual affair, says she will fully co-operate with the investigation into the matter. The education and youth minister has stood aside while allegations he was emotionally – and on one occasion, physically – abusive …

Liberal Senator Jim Molan says the fact Australia is criticised as being “warmongers is so totally pathetic”. It comes as the Labor Party is offering to work with Prime Minister Scott Morrison to come to an agreement on a diplomatic boycott of Beijing’s Winter Olympics next year.