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Liberal backbencher Bridget Archer is the latest federal government MP to cross the floor, in an attempt to bring on a debate about an integrity commission.

Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has criticised fellow Queensland representative Gerard Rennick’s antivaxx-adjacent social media posts. Ray Hadley told Peter Dutton he’d renounce himself as a “card-carrying right-wing shock jock” if the Coalition continue to support the “lunatic”.

The leaders of three German parties will present their deal to form a coalition government on Wednesday that will see Social Democrat Olaf Scholz replace conservative Angela Merkel as chancellor, according to an invitation distributed by the SPD.

New documents show NSW government MPs were allowed to assess and green light grants funding for projects that weren’t even in their electorates.

The Hawaii holiday is one headache, but the Prime Minister is facing bigger problems in the Parliament. Chief political correspondent Laura Tingle reports on the shenanigans in Canberra today.

The government has thwarted an attempt to expedite a federal anti-corruption agency, drawing fire from crossbenchers and Labor over delays in creating an integrity watchdog.

Government divisions are threatening to derail Scott Morrison's political agenda for the rest of the year after five Coalition senators crossed the floor to support Pauline Hanson's failed bill to ban vaccine mandates.

The efforts of Australians who followed the health advice and got vaccinated against COVID-19 are being undermined by the position held by backbenchers in the Morrison government, according to Deputy Labor Leader Richard Marles.

The next sitting fortnight is the last before the summer break and the start of an election year. And it's going to be a long two weeks for the Coalition.

The Coalition has been accused of waiting until “five minutes to midnight” to rush key legislation through a hostile senate in the final parliamentary fortnight for 2021. What