BARNABY JOYCE has been ousted from the finance portfolio and Malcolm Turnbull snubbed in an Opposition frontbench reshuffle that has seen Andrew Robb return to shadow cabinet and given control of spending plans.

MALCOLM TURNBULL is open to an invitation to rejoin the frontbench and bolster the Coalition's economic credentials after the resignation of the Liberal Party giant and factional power broker Nick Minchin left a gaping hole in the shadow cabinet.

ARTISTS are being used as scapegoats for the State Government's inability to stem the tide of child pornography, says a visual arts lobby group.

FEARFUL of a public backlash against Vietnamese refugees, Margaret Thatcher asked Australia to help buy an island to resettle them, British cabinet documents from 1979 show.

HENRY TSANG has decided to quit his seat in the Legislative Council six years early, making way for the first Muslim representative in State Parliament, Shaoquett Moselmane.