Senior Liberal figures who gave evidence before the royal commission will be provided funding to challenge any findings handed down against them on Friday.
The top silk has been reprimanded by the bar council over accepting a brief for former attorney-general Christian Porter.
The men and women charged with legislating to make the environment of Australian workplaces safer,ludicrously,seem unable to get their own house in order.
The fellow former Liberal staffer says the Coalition is using “their own women to tear down other women” and warned the leaking of Higgins’ text messages could have a chilling effect on victims.
The Liberal heartland seat of Aston has been won by Labor. Liberal leader Peter Dutton says the party has “a lot of rebuilding to do”. Follow our live blog for updates throughout the day.
Liberal candidate Roshena Campbell has called Labor’s Mary Doyle to concede in Aston – the first time in a century that a sitting government has won a seat from the opposition in a byelection since 1920.
The former prime minister told the royal commission he did not doubt the welfare recovery scheme’s legality,although he had expressed concerns about its fairness.
Upgrades to Dorset,Wellington and Napoleon roads in Melbourne’s outer east were announced by the former Coalition government but scrapped by Labor last year. Now they are a focus of the federal byelection fight.
Top Victorian Liberal Party officials will handpick the party’s candidate for the Aston byelection on Tuesday night.
“He didn’t let me know how much pressure he was starting to feel from the debts,” Jennifer Miller told the robo-debt royal commission.
Anthony Albanese will formally announce the former union official as Labor’s candidate for the byelection in the marginal Melbourne seat,vacated by Alan Tudge.