The Australian
Scott Morrison faces the potential loss of two critical votes on the floor of parliament this week, with Bill Shorten considering support for a newly amended version of the medivac asylum-seeker bill before moving swiftly to force a vote on extending parliamentary sitting weeks in response to the banking royal commission.
The lobbying firm of NSW Liberal powerbroker Michael Photios has started donating to the Labor Party, in an apparent nod towards the likelihood of Bill Shorten taking up residence in The Lodge.
The Sydney Morning Herald
Telstra chief executive Andy Penn says a change of government could bring cheaper broadband by delivering savings to telecommunications companies, if Labor brought a "more sensible" approach to the national broadband network.
The owners of a sprawling housing estate in Sydney's west are being ordered to probe for a potential leak of chemicals - more than three years after the possible contamination risk to thousands of residents was first identified.
NSW Labor has unveiled a 10-year plan to provide 600,000 students with free TAFE courses in a bid to reduce skill shortages.
The Age
Defence Minister Christopher Pyne says politics is trapped in a self-obsessed and panic-prone spiral that is damaging Parliament's ability to work for the good of voters.
The corporate regulator will ask the government to change mortgage rules that could make it harder and more expensive for borrowers to get a new home loan if it loses a landmark case against Westpac over responsible lending laws.
The Australian government gave more than $1 million to research projects involving Chinese technology giant Huawei and contributed funds to student trips to Huawei's facilities in China, even as it has barred the company from building next-generation 5G mobile infrastructure for security reasons.
The Canberra Times
Parents say they are afraid to send their children to a Canberra school amid escalating violence between students, and their concerns have been ignored by the government for more than a year.
The Courier-Mail
New laws designed to put an end to the lenient sentences being handed to killers who prey on children and other vulnerable Queenslanders will be introduced into State Parliament this week.
A humble vitamin C supplement may hold the key to tackling one of Australia's biggest health scourges, type 2 diabetes. A Deakin University study has shown taking 500mg of vitamin C twice daily can lower elevated blood sugar levels and reduce blood sugar spikes after meals, in people with the chronic and potentially deadly disease.
