Russell Marks

The Abbott government and the renewable energy industry are 1,500 gigawatt hours away from an agreement on the RET...but Ian Macfarlane won't budge.

Tony Abbott’s dubious record on travel entitlements, and political parties’ poor record on declaring donations, suggests the need for greater transparency and accountability

This week, and possibly tonight, the Senate will pass legislation that authorises constant surveillance by the state of citizens’ electronic communications

The Moss review ignores the real cause of the abuse on Nauru, because the government won’t go there

Malcolm Fraser passed away this morning after a brief illness. He was 84. The two periods of his political life – the first leading up to and including his prime ministership, the second covering the three decades since he was finally defeated by Bob …

Budget 2015 is shaping up to be Tony Abbott’s latest book of nonsense

Will Shorten Labor be able to secure protections for journalists, or will it vote for the government’s metadata bill anyway?

Tracking the progress of Christopher Pyne’s higher education reforms

The government’s new Whip brooks no dissent – inside or outside the party room