Most witnesses attending Senate estimates have to feign a certain obsequiousness. The hypocrisy in all this is that if Penny Wong were still in opposition, she would be making exactly the same ...

Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet officials have apologised for accidentally tweeting that the government was in ...

The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet’s official X account posted and quickly deleted a post saying the government was in a caretaker period, a Senate estimate committee has heard.

Another clue that the election might be called as soon as Friday is in the letter Clerk of the Senate Richard Pye sent to all ...

Evidence of Labor’s strategic move can be found in Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong’s opening statement to a Senate estimates committee meeting last Thursday, referring to Team Dutton’s ...

Missteps, miscalculations, lies and missed opportunities on the NDIS should alarm anyone who values sound economic governance ...

Dutton made a surprise early reveal from his budget reply on Thursday morning promising to halve the petrol excise for one ...

Foreign Minister Penny Wong told Senate estimates hearings a couple of days later that Australia had a “greater hill to climb” than in 2018 in its bid to be spared from the tariffs.

Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong and her Ukraine counterpart Andriy Sybiga walk by the Wall of Remembrance of the Fallen for Ukraine in Kyiv last year. Picture: AFP Australia evacuated its Kyiv ...

Most witnesses attending Senate estimates have to feign a certain obsequiousness. The hypocrisy in all this is that if Penny Wong were still in opposition, she would be making exactly the same demands ...

However, the first signs it was wavering in confidence came with Foreign Minister Penny Wong, in response to questioning at a Senate Estimates hearing in Canberra last week, saying that while the ...