A security guard has described seeing Brittany Higgins naked on a minister's couch while a staffer says she got "bad vibes" from alleged rapist Bruce Lehrmann.
The first of more than 50 electric vehicle chargers have opened in Canberra's Parliament House as part of an effort to meet growing demand from visitors.
Working at Parliament House since it opened in 1988, Maria Ljubic takes great pride in overseeing the cleaning of its 4,500 rooms and 22 kilometres of corridors.
A group of women have walked from Melbourne to Canberra to highlight the plight of refugees and call for greater compassion from the federal government.
Aiming to raise awareness of the discrimination faced by seeing eye dogs and their handlers, Vision Australia brought pups in training to visit policymakers.
Liberal frontbencher James Paterson says the risk of a Chinese spy working inside the Australian parliament is "very high" and has backed basic vetting.
