Palmer plots High Court challenge as teals slam election funding overhaul

Palmer plots High Court challenge as teals slam election funding overhaul

Labor argues keeping United States-style mega-spending out of politics is a good thing for Australian democracy.

  • byPaul Sakkal

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Crossbench in the gun under laws to shut out big money and ‘protect democracy’

Crossbench in the gun under laws to shut out big money and ‘protect democracy’

Labor wants to ram through sweeping reforms that would cut the power of big donors and restrict the fundraising of independent candidates.

  • byPaul Sakkal
Surprising name emerges as frontrunner for Media Watch host gig

Surprising name emerges as frontrunner for Media Watch host gig

ABC investigative journalist and former foreign correspondent Linton Besser is firming as top contender for the role.

  • byKishor Napier-Raman andStephen Brook
Pure Gold Coast Clive Palmer buys childhood Melbourne home

Pure Gold Coast Clive Palmer buys childhood Melbourne home

The Queensland-based billionaire mining magnate bought the suburban house where he once lived as a child. We didn’t take him for a Victorian either.

  • byKishor Napier-Raman andStephen Brook
A cap on dark political donations sounds simple,but there’s a serious catch

A cap on dark political donations sounds simple,but there’s a serious catch

It sounds wonderful to anyone fed up with blanket advertising and robocalls,but there will be a temptation to replace the lost money with more public funding.

  • byDavid Crowe
Clive Palmer’s plan to build Titanic II runs into another iceberg
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Clive Palmer’s plan to build Titanic II runs into another iceberg

The builders of the original Titanic,Harland&Wolff,have put a big dent in Palmer’s $1 billion effort to recreate the ill-fated ocean liner.

  • byElizabeth Knight
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Gina Rinehart stars in fashion ad with Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s son

Gina Rinehart stars in fashion ad with Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s son

Australia’s richest woman collaborated with the son of Queensland’s infamous hillbilly dictator to spruik her recently acquired Driza-Bone coats.

  • byKishor Napier-Raman andStephen Brook
Clive Palmer’s previously dumped car museum gets the green light – somewhere else

Clive Palmer’s previously dumped car museum gets the green light – somewhere else

Vintage cars once owned by royalty are expected to be on display when Australia’s biggest car museum opens,after the idea was ditched in a different south-east Queensland council area.

  • byFelicity Caldwell
Fatima Payman finds a friendly Labor comrade in Sydney

Fatima Payman finds a friendly Labor comrade in Sydney

The senator,who quit the ALP last week over the Albanese government’s stance on the war in Gaza,will appear at an event with a NSW Labor MP this month.

  • byKishor Napier-Raman andStephen Brook
Jamal Mohammad brings the fashion to his court dispute with Mick Gatto
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Jamal Mohammad brings the fashion to his court dispute with Mick Gatto

It is unclear if Melbourne restaurateur Jamal Mohammad will triumph in his legal battle with Mick Gatto,but he is winning in the fashion stakes.

  • byStephen Brook andKishor Napier-Raman
Clive Palmer pipped for a place at the PM’s dinner table
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Clive Palmer pipped for a place at the PM’s dinner table

Was the mining billionaire the anonymous bidder who shelled out more than $25,000 for a charity dinner with the prime minister. Turns out,no.

  • byStephen Brook andKishor Napier-Raman