Australia and the US have signed a landmark critical minerals deal worth billions. It’s been a good time to be an investor in the lead-up.

Many venal and vile characters have trod the halls of power in Australia. We've scoured the archives to try and identify every politician convicted of a crime since the 1800s.

Federal MP Bob Katter's vague disclosures to parliament’s interests register read like the ramblings of a mad uncle after a night on the tiles. They also demonstrate his wilful disregard for the rules and the need for reform to compel MPs to declare their interests.

An MP in Federal Parliament was charged with domestic violence-related offences on two occasions last decade.

Senator Hanson's statement to the Register of Senators’ Interests last week is one of the strangest we've seen: she declared no longer receiving rental income from a property she never declared to the register.

Nearly 30% of federal parliamentarians have accepted sponsored overseas travel and hospitality since the 2019 election, raising questions about undue influence peddling from foreign and commercial interests.

While the Albanese government seeks to toughen tobacco controls, the Assistant Health Minister Ged Kearney is investing in index funds with shareholdings in the tobacco industry. Update: Kearney divested three days after this story was published.

The other week our social media monitoring uncovered five politicians who didn't declare privately-sponsored junkets. Today we look at two more and ask why interest disclosure rules are not being enforced.

Nearly 300 Australians are registered as beneficial owners of companies in the tax haven of Luxembourg. Today we look at four: a mystery banker, a Bond Corp fraudster, an illegal drug supplier, and a Kremlin associate.

Qantas and Virgin provide MPs and senators with access to luxury airport lounges and flight upgrades. But at what cost. Open Politics tallies up the freebies being dished out by Australia’s domestic carriers and foreign airlines.

Unlike MPs, senators are not required to publicly disclose the interests of their partners and children. As a result, almost nothing is known about the family interests of 11 ministers and 10 shadow ministers. Open Politics discusses why this matters.

While federal ministers are prevented from owning shares, it’s a free for all for people with connections and influence with ministers, raising questions about whether non-public information is being used in share trading.

In what is becoming an all to regular occurrence, another federal parliamentarian has failed to disclose their privately funded overseas trip - the ninth we've discovered in less than eight months. Open Politics looks at what's driving a culture of non-compliance and how to fix it.

A One Nation candidate, who is ‘passionate about men’s rights’, has 15 convictions for breaching a family violence restraining order, court documents state.

Over three years after leaving parliament, the former federal MP still owes the Commonwealth money for charging family travel to the taxpayer.

A late disclosure, an undeclared directorship, and unanswered questions about investments in Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s discretionary family trust.