Parliament House

Former GP turned MP says she has been asked to assist visitors who have collapsed in Parliament House, which has no onsite doctor available.

Former mandarin Steve Davies says calls for an onsite doctor in Parliament during sitting weeks should be heeded.

Unions take aim at low classifications suppressing wages. Now that the FWC has rejected the DPS’s claim, snap strikes will occur.

Liberal senator James Paterson says there’s a ‘very good case’ for security vetting of Parliament House workers.

The establishment of the Parliamentary Workplace Support Service is one step closer, with a bill introduced in parliament on Thursday.

ACT attorney-general Shane Rattenbury said the government will make a detailed statement in response to the Sofronoff report early this week. 

Mark Dreyfus and Katy Gallagher have issued a joint statement to mark the end of Jenkins’ seven-year term as sex discrimination commissioner.

We pull out the keywords from tonight’s Budget address.

Watching question time from the press gallery for the first time is a bit like going to a music festival.

Milton Dick has been elected house of representatives speaker, beating the Coalition’s nominee and former speaker Andrew Wallace by 92 votes to 56.

A new government means new political staffers — and they’re hiring. The work is important and the pay is good. 

In February 2022, the speaker of the House of Representatives and the president of the Senate fulfilled a key recommendation of a report that exposed the unsafe nature of parliamentary workplaces when they delivered statements of acknowledgement in both chambers. That report, the Independent Review into Commonwealth Parliamentary Workplaces, was the result of consultations and […]