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The former party leader argues the Nationals should hold more power in the Coalition, highlighting Nationals cabinet ministers share responsibility for just 3.45 per cent of the total federal budget.

Barnaby Joyce has lit a match under tensions in the Nationals, lashing the Coalition as “no marriage of equals” and demanding its junior partner be given more powerful ministries.

Federal and state funds for bushfire recovery have been heavily skewed in favour of state Coalition seats with NSW State Labor picking up just 1% of $177 million handed out. The devastated Blue Mountains electorate,

The Liberal Party has benefited from its relationship to the mining sector, but at great cost to the Australian people.

Following years of cuts to the Australian aid budget, the Coalition government is quietly increasing foreign aid. Stephen Howes explains.

The Morrison Government is under scrutiny over its lack of action in implementing the recommendations of the Hayne banking royal commission. Analysis shows that 27 of the inquirys

Senior Morrison government ministers have refused to directly criticise a pair of backbench MPs who have shared coronavirus misinformation on social media.

A number of conservative Australian MPs have cried “censorship” after every mainstream social media platform banned outgoing US President Donald Trump.

They would both become prisms through which Australian politics would be refracted for many years to come. In contrast, in 2000, John Howard (prime minister 1996-2007) later mused, "we had no conception of the challenges which would engulf the world in the next few years".

Australian Cabinet papers from 2000, released today, reflect a relatively quiescent Australia where Islamic militancy and offshore detention were barely