Independent MP Andrew Wilkie has condemned successive Australian governments for failing to meet their obligations under international law to asylum seekers and refugees who arrive by sea, and says the Government has committed crimes against humanity.

Katter's Australian Party MP Bob Katter claims that no independent had ever been elected to the Lower House before 2001.

Following the ousting of prime minister Malcolm Turnbull and allegations that women were bullied during the leadership spill, independent Victorian MP Cathy McGowan has cast doubt on the Coalition's ability to boost the number of women in its ranks, claim

In his first speech to Parliament, Senator Fraser Anning, a member of Katter's Australian Party, made a number of disputed claims including that "a majority of Muslims in Australia of working age do not work and live on welfare".

Senator Fraser Anning of Katter's Australian Party says migration is a "critical problem" facing the nation, and used his controversial maiden speech to argue for a big reduction in student visas, which he claims would create more university places for Au