Labor has urged the Abbott government to pick a new speaker who doesn’t have “the same hyper partisanship” as Mrs Bishop, as Bill Shorten accused the veteran Liberal MP of making parliament a “laughing stock”. The Opposition Leader threw his support behind the likes of Mr Scott and Dr Stone for the speaker role and said he hoped Mr Abbott ...

A man has been arrested and charged with perjury after giving evidence at the trade union royal commission in Canberra. Tuungafasi Manase, 29, was arrested by ACT police last night just after 7:00pm and charged with one count of perjury. Manase is the third person to be charged while the Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption is in ...

Bronwyn Bishop has made a grovelling on-air apology for her excessive use of parliamentary entitlements, conceding her interstate travel bills do “not look right” and agreeing to repay money spent on attending friends’ weddings. Mrs Bishop’s apology comes more than two weeks after revelations she billed taxpayers for private aircraft to attend three Liberal Party fundraisers — including $5227 for ...

Former United States vice-president Al Gore has flown into Australia for a whistlestop tour that includes meetings with state government ministers and senior business figures as part of efforts to build global momentum towards the Paris climate change summit later this year. Mr Gore arrived in Melbourne on Sunday afternoon, heading to a speaking engagement and then dinner with Victorian ministers and senior ...

Two men have been arrested over the shooting of a police officer in the north-west of Melbourne earlier this month. A 31-year-old police officer, Constable Ben Ashmole, was shot in the back of the head after he and his partner tried to pull over a car in Moonee Ponds about 3:40am on July 7. A 22-year-old man in Morwell, and a ...

Jodi Magi, 39, an Australian woman has been caught and imprisoned in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates as the court judged her guilty of “writing bad words on social media”. Ms Magi, who has lived in Abu Dhabi since 2012, took a photo of a car in her apartment area in February. The car was parked across two ...

A man with the gun is still on the run after shooting a police officer in the north-west Melbourne this morning. The shooting happened after two police officers in a car tried to stop a black car in Moonee Ponds around 3:40am and the driver sped off. After a short chasing, the officers tried to block the car on Robinson ...

A gunman is escaping after shooting a police officer in the north-west Melbourne this morning. The shooting happened after two police officers in a car tried to stop a black car in Moonee Ponds around 3:40am and the driver sped off. After a short chasing, the officers tried to block the car on Robinson Street and then, the driver fired ...

The Federal Government is working to confirm reports that Australia’s most infamous terrorists, Khaled Sharrouf and Mohamed Elomar, have been killed while fighting with Islamic State (IS) in Iraq. A person close to one of the men’s families told the ABC’s 7.30 program the pair died in fighting in the city of Mosul. Another source close to the families said ...