Opposition leader Sussan Ley has taken another big polling hit, as defence spokesman Angus Taylor scrambles to get the numbers for a tilt at her position.

Cancelled writer Randa Abdel-Fattah has launched defamation action against South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas.

Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal is refusing to tell the Senate whether she disclosed she was a senior official of a pro-Israel lobby group before taking the role.

Governments are becoming architects of manufactured ignorance. Amid disappearing evidence, citizens are struggling to hold power to account, say Australian university experts.

Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal has given misleading evidence to the Senate over her response to last month's neo-Nazi rally.

There is a very close link between unemployment rises and concerns about migration – yet Covid-19 appears to have upset the trend.