Paul Sakkal

Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus has proposed new constitutional wording for the Voice to parliament in a bid to win over conservatives.

Gerard Rennick’s loss means Opposition Leader Peter Dutton, who wrote an endorsement for Rennick, will no longer need to deal with the negative media attention attracted by his conspiratorial claims.

Amelia Hamer, the Oxford-educated grandniece of former Victorian Liberal premier Sir Rupert “Dick” Hamer, is weighing a bid to be Liberal candidate for Kooyong.

The minister for Indigenous Australians has discussed facing “unbelievably racist bullying” as the opposition leader sowed confusion over a second referendum.

The former member for Goldstein is the only one of the six Liberals who lost to independents to so far confirm he will contest the next election.

Labor’s Peter Khalil has become the first MP to push back against claims made by a pro-Palestinian political movement.

The move is an attempt to cauterise the political damage over revelations of underworld infiltration into the scandal-plagued construction union.

The spy agency has raised the national threat level to “probable” after eight recent alleged terrorist incidents in Australia and difficult-to-define ideological threats.

Footage shared by Philippines officials at a press conference showed a Chinese boat “directly and intentionally rammed the Philippine vessel”.

The expelled MP who sued the Victorian Liberal leader was effusive about Peter Dutton amid revelations she is being encouraged to run for federal office.