The federal MP for Indi talks about where the government spends too much (and too little),whether two-party politics is dead – and her 36-year marriage.
Expressing frustration with the Albanese government’s messaging ahead of the referendum,teal independents are launching their own grassroots campaigns.
Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus will soon refer the government’s pick for the top job to a new parliamentary committee for approval.
In its submission to a parliamentary inquiry,the NSW government said some people in the state subscribed to two mobile service providers and had two mobile numbers to maintain coverage.
Helen Dalton,whose seat centres on the regional centre of Griffith,says she’s unafraid of political backlash over her stance on poker machines.
The bill to establish the federal National Anti-Corruption Commission is on track to pass parliament this sitting fortnight,with the government and Coalition expected to team up to defeat a push by the crossbench and Greens to remove the limits on holding hearings in public.
A National Anti-Corruption Commission is on track to be legislated by the end of the year,but crossbenchers have voiced concerns over the agency’s limited ability to hold public hearings.
Transparency campaigners want the new anti-corruption commission to have more scope to reveal its proceedings and greater powers to hold public hearings.
A crossbench campaign will demand crucial changes to Labor’s plan for a national corruption commission in a bid to encourage more public hearings.
The crossbench MPs,including senators whose votes could be decisive,are worried Labor’s integrity commission will not be broad enough to go after corrupt union officials and business people who seek to influence the government.
Thirty-four years after Australia’s first state-based anti-corruption commission was legislated,we’re about to get a federal one.