WHY this Member of Parliament backs PM's plan for independent expenses authority to rein in wayward politicians.
18th Jan. 2017 5:01 AM
When when Parliament failed to address a petition by Sunshine Coast residents in 2011 it ultimately failed the whole...
11th Jan. 2017 5:01 AM
FORMER Speaker and Sunshine Coast Peter Slipper has been enjoying a golden period out of federal politics, racking up...
02nd Dec. 2016 12:12 PM
THREE decades ago today I walked into the Sunshine Coast Daily newsroom, dressed in a grey suit with a thin red tie, ready...
01st Dec. 2016 12:12 PM
JAMES Ashby talks to the Daily about how he's moved on from the Peter Slipper saga.
22nd Oct. 2016 8:10 AM
FROM elections, to sexual harassment allegations, and AFP investigations, look back at how it all unfolded.
22nd Oct. 2016 6:10 AM
FORMER member for Fisher Mal Brough left parliament frustrated.
22nd Oct. 2016 6:10 AM
THE former speaker was by no means the last of the big political spenders.
22nd Oct. 2016 6:10 AM
The public is clear it won't tolerate the "age of entitlement” being maintained for the select few in Canberra.
15th Oct. 2016 12:10 PM
THE public has had a gutfull of the double standards that exist in every area of modern Australian society - from tax...
06th Oct. 2016 7:10 AM
WHY our politicians are immune to allegations they have abused taxpayer-funded entitlements and what needs to be done to...
05th Oct. 2016 12:10 PM
THE long-running saga that followed allegations of sexual harassment against former Fisher MP Peter Slipper has drawn to a...
05th Oct. 2016 5:10 AM
AS BOTH outgoing federal candidates leave under a shroud, what happens next for Fairfax and Fisher remains to be seen.
02nd July 2016 3:07 PM
THEY'VE walked down the aisle a few times before, but two of our eager bridesmaids will be honeymooning in Canberra after...
02nd July 2016 5:07 AM
A Federal Court judge has granted the Commonwealth Government permission to handover two discs containing James Ashby's...
19th May 2016 1:05 PM
SUNSHINE Coast MP Mal Brough is facing a 'ramped up' investigation by federal police who are seeking court approval to use...
29th April 2016 8:04 AM
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) have sought access to computer servers at Parliament House as part of their...
01st March 2016 6:03 AM
UPDATE 1.59PM: MAL Brough opens up about why he felt he had to resign from the Turnbull Ministry.
13th Feb. 2016 2:02 PM
Peter Slipper's former media advisor Karen Doane has reached a settlement in her sexual discrimination case, but Philip...
09th Feb. 2016 9:02 AM
KAREN Doane, the former media advisor who sued Peter Slipper and the Commonwealth for sexual discrimination reaches...
09th Feb. 2016 9:02 AM
MAL Brough has taken a $108,000 pay cut and moved to a back bencher’s office after standing down in late December.
06th Jan. 2016 1:01 PM
HE’S not the federal minister, he’s a very naughty boy!
02nd Jan. 2016 6:01 AM
THE question that must be asked however is why it took so long for that decision to be reached?
30th Dec. 2015 8:12 AM
MAL Brough has stood down as Special Minister of State and Minister for Defence Materiel and Science pending the completion...
30th Dec. 2015 6:12 AM
FEDERAL Member for Fisher Mal Brough has stepped aside from his ministerial portfolio pending the completion of inquiries...
29th Dec. 2015 1:12 PM
UNDER-fire Fisher MP Mal Brough has endured another tough day in Federal Parliament.
03rd Dec. 2015 5:12 AM
JAMES Ashby has denied being part of an apparent plot by Sunshine Coast MP and Special Minister of State Mal Brough
01st Dec. 2015 1:12 PM
THE former staffer of Peter Slipper at the centre of the ongoing controversy says Brough has nothing to answer for and...
27th Nov. 2015 9:11 AM
SUNSHINE Coast MP Mal Brough has been the target of a censure motion over his role in the leaking of the diary of former...
26th Nov. 2015 2:11 PM
Federal Member for Fairfax Clive Palmer uses Parliamentary privilege to repeat explosive claims Mal Brough sought help to...
25th Nov. 2015 3:11 PM
GRAHAM Perrett has no great love for Peter Slipper but says those who undermine Australia’s democracy do so at their own...
21st Nov. 2015 5:11 AM
IT IS time the Australian Federal Police sorted out its intent in relation to allegations raised about the procurement of...
20th Nov. 2015 1:11 PM
AUSTRALIAN Federal Police have interviewed Fisher MP Mal Brough about his involvement in the 2012 procurement of entries...
20th Nov. 2015 7:11 AM
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has backed Sunshine Coast MP Mal Brough after a raid by federal police, saying there is no...
19th Nov. 2015 11:11 AM
FISHER MP Mal Brough and Longman MP Wyatt Roy stayed silent yesterday after federal police raided the Coast home of former...
18th Nov. 2015 7:11 AM
POLICE have searched the home of former political staffer James Ashby, looking for items linked to diaries of former...
17th Nov. 2015 12:11 PM
THE two Sunshine Coast MPs who left parliament at the last election spent vastly different sums in their final weeks in...
20th Oct. 2015 5:10 AM
CURRENT Affairs program 60 Minutes has again cast the spotlight on Member for Fisher, Mal Brough.
28th Sept. 2015 8:09 AM
HE may have earned an impressive promotion, but there are still clouds above Sunshine Coast MP and newly-minted minister...
23rd Sept. 2015 8:09 AM
“I AM just not going to sit in judgment of a friend and colleague like that ...
04th Aug. 2015 7:08 PM
JAMES Ashby, the man who accused former federal speaker Peter Slipper of sexual harassment, says he would like to catch up...
28th July 2015 10:07 AM
PETER Slipper told me several years ago when his spending of entitlements was under the spotlight ...
20th July 2015 8:07 PM
THE finance department, asked by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) to investigate Bronwyn Bishop, now finds itself...
20th July 2015 12:07 PM
HOUSE of Representatives Speaker Bronwyn Bishop has described allegations she misused her travel allowance as a "political...
19th July 2015 6:07 AM
POLITICIANS' travel allowance was a hot topic of conversation on the Daily's Facebook after the federal parliamentary...
13th July 2015 2:07 PM
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THE “Marco Polo” of Federal Parliament during his 23 years in office has lost none of his appetite for travel after...
09th July 2015 5:07 AM
PETER Slipper lost his job, his reputation, his wife and nearly his life during court cases which have now been dropped.
31st March 2015 5:03 AM
THE taxpayer-funded fight to have former MP Peter Slipper convicted of fraud may not be over.
27th Feb. 2015 7:02 AM
PETER Slipper has won his appeal against three dishonesty convictions.
26th Feb. 2015 10:02 AM
PETER Slipper will come face-to-face with one of the people he has accused of masterminding his demise in a New South Wales...
13th Nov. 2014 6:11 AM
