Anthony Albanese has ducked responsibility for the widening MPs’ expenses saga and claimed he was not in charge of the rules, while minister Anika Wells can be compelled to hand over her metadata and submit to interviews in a probe of her spending

Yes, some kids will find a way around it. It is not perfect. Jonathan Haidt brings some common sense to the debate. Just because some kids stay on FB does not mean it’s failed. https://t.co/TH17BUL9xd

Sources briefed on the opposition plan said it would commit the Coalition to speeding up asylum assessments and, where possible, deport them as a priority. The plan also includes a move to demand the Albanese government speedily clear the backlog

Wells billed taxpayers to fly husband to two Boxing Day Tests

Moderate Liberal Andrew Bragg, who defied Peter Dutton to support the Voice to parliament, will reignite a culture war when he calls for a major change to acknowledgments of country to also include Australia’s British and migrant history. https://t.co/t4FnhxI5Ov

Voters are throwing their support behind Australia’s teen social media ban, although most are sceptical that it can work – and less than a third of parents are planning to fully enforce it, new polling shows. https://t.co/FYuTMGIp5x

Barnaby Joyce has confirmed he is joining One Nation and will run for the Senate in NSW at the next election, appearing on a Tamworth radio station with party leader Pauline Hanson to make the announcement. https://t.co/D7nZ2SdwMj

Labor is weighing an unprecedented intervention to start bulk-buying natural gas from east-coast producers and selling it to local businesses at discounted rates as it seeks to head off shutdowns of manufacturing plants battling soaring energy costs

Moderate MPs have made clear to Ley that they will not publicly support a migration policy that puts too much emphasis on migrants being the cause of societal problems such as housing affordability, raising the prospect of frontbench resignations

Much of the post-election analysis has centred on policy errors and personality clashes, overlooking what top campaigners believe was the difference between a typical bad election loss and Labor’s 94-seat rout of the Coalition. https://t.co/1L2yJUt1m3

Australia is set to take a big step to wrest control of spiralling power prices by forcing gas companies to keep fuel onshore, as Labor moves to assure its closest Asian ally, Japan, that plans to limit gas exports will not deprive the resource-poor nation https://t.co/KVwyQv94cy

O’Neil reads riot act to agency as Labor seeks to keep housing probe secret

Barnaby Joyce is expected to formally resign from the Nationals and announce his move to One Nation in the House of Representatives around 1.30pm

Nationals leadership contender Matt Canavan has vowed to take the fight to One Nation as his former ally Barnaby Joyce prepares to defect to Pauline Hanson’s party, as Joyce says he “will have more to say tomorrow” about his political future

NEW Curtin’s Cast. Live from Parliament House. @dyrenfurth and I are joined by Nine’s chief political correspondent @paulsakkal for a no-nonsense lap of the current landscape: •Liberal chaos and whether Sussan Ley can actually hang on •Just how far the conservative vote can

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson billed taxpayers thousands for flights, private cars and hotels to attend a private court matter in Sydney where she was found guilty of racially discriminating against Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi.

The Nationals have raised last-minute objections to Labor’s landmark nature reforms, risking another Coalition schism if Opposition Leader Sussan Ley chooses to do a deal with the government.

Nationals renegade Barnaby Joyce has dined with populist leader Pauline Hanson in her office hours after she pulled a widely condemned burqa stunt.

Inside Politics podcast with @mrseankelly on the question of what Labor under Anthony Albanese stands for https://t.co/IPPoaDhcOC

Moderate Liberals had the numbers on net zero. This is how it all changed