Hanson, Payman and Le say MPs' staffing system is broken
Pauline Hanson, Fatima Payman and Dai Le stood together in Canberra on 17 September to call the personal-adviser staffing system completely broken.
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Australia desk
Bel McRae covers the Australia and Roads desks, with 48 stories so far, 37 of them for the Australia desk. A big share follows One Nation, from its polling and its Victorian launch to Pauline Hanson's policy calls, alongside Canberra and the power grid. On Roads, McRae reports on highways, rail and freight, from the Strzelecki Track sealing to Melbourne Airport Rail.
Pauline Hanson, Fatima Payman and Dai Le stood together in Canberra on 17 September to call the personal-adviser staffing system completely broken.
The ABC has named David Donis, the subject of a 2023 tribunal finding on neo-Nazi ideologies, as a One Nation booth volunteer at Secret Harbour.
Pauline Hanson offered qualified apologies on 15 September to Indigenous Australians, and to Anthony Albanese over remarks about his late mother.
Indigenous Australians Minister Malarndirri McCarthy has called Pauline Hanson's podcast remarks completely racist and demanded an absolute apology.
One Nation's plan would cut temporary visa holders and unlawful non-citizens by over 750,000 in three years, then cap net migration at 130,000 a year.
The Stuart Highway still has Australia's longest public fast-charger gap, about 625 km from Katherine to Tennant Creek, The Driven says.
Rear Adm. Douglas J. Adams's AUKUS visit put dry docks at Henderson, WA, on the record. Richard Marles says the first Virginia sub is still due in 2032.
Queensland is close to losing its AA+ S&P credit rating, but no cut had come by 11 September. Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers called it "very troubling".
The Hume, Pacific, Bruce and Western highways have no public fast-charger gap over about 150 km, EV Roadside and The Driven found in June 2026.
Andrew Hastie has called Pauline Hanson and Barnaby Joyce "lying cowards" after they denied calling him a traitor over a One Nation cartoon.
Inland Rail's Beveridge to Parkes section is still due by the end of 2027, after the full Melbourne to Brisbane line was scaled back in May 2026.