The Liberals’ desperate campaign of fear and loathing has stooped to sledging the independent Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) as part of a partisan inquiry into Labor’s reforms of a Howard-era tax loophole.

The Abbott-Turnbull-Morrison Government is wasting an opportunity to outline a plan for Australia’s economy or propose solutions to sustained, low wages growth, by instead using a parliamentary committee hearing today to attack Opposition policy.

The Chair of the Standing Committee on Economics Tim Wilson must resign his position immediately after he created a blatantly partisan website that seeks to generate pre-filled public submissions for an inquiry he is chairing.

My question to the latest Prime Minister, the Member for Cook, based in the electorate on the other side of Botany Bay - Will you help save Yarra Bay?

More Australians are supporting a local as our nation’s head of state and only Labor has a clear plan for a pathway to a republic.

Scott Morrison’s admission that Stuart Robert’s extraordinary internet bill warrants further investigation is an embarrassing own-goal for the Prime Minister.

The Liberal Party has given up on governing.

Today is Wattle Day when we mark the first day of Spring. It’s a celebration of our nation’s cherished flower, but in the post war years also became a day for Australians to unite and look forward to a better future.

Australians are gathering across the nation today as part of the “BBQ for an Australian head of state” campaign in the biggest day of action for a republic since the 1999 referendum.

Should our states ban booze? Are your Senators and Members of Parliament deserving of a 400 pounds annual salary? And why can “persons of any race” be barred from voting here in elections?

These are just some of the questions raised after a closer look at Australia’s Constitution. And it’s clear that this crucial document no longer represents our modern Australia.