Facebook and Twitter face a fundamental new challenge after Christian Porter said social media platforms should be treated as publishers under defamation law.
The federal Labor MP talks about Labor's loss at the last election,his faith and balancing his work and home life.
The Attorney-General says he won't let"Labor's grandstanding"delay a wage theft bill,describing a Senate inquiry into the issue as"a seven month talkfest".
Media industry chiefs say the government is open to reform after meeting with the A-G,while journalist Annika Smethurst's case continues in the High Court.
Attorney-General Christian Porter says he's confident a"sensible compromise"can be reached over the government's industrial relations laws.
A coalition of more than 60 legal organisations has urged the federal government to abandon its plan to scrap the Family Court as a stand-alone entity.
The influential mining lobby group,the Minerals Council of Australia,has backed proposed changes to a controversial industrial relations bill that would see union officials and unions that breach workplace laws accrue penalty points.
The NSW government will invest $1.6 million in helping to tackle wage theft.
The Attorney-General scolded his department for management of the foreign-influence register after it asked Tony Abbott to sign up.
The peak body for the legal profession said the government had adopted a"stubborn and wrong-headed approach to family law"and should abandon its plans.
A week after the national media launched its campaign,Christian Porter says press freedom has"never been absolute".