The Senate’s new kingmaker,David Pocock,said the decision was “bad for democracy and terrible for transparency”.
Campaign money spinners come in many guises,from Pauline Hanson’s gin and Liberal Party cufflinks to teal-coloured dog bandanas and T-shirts featuring Jacqui Lambie as Princess Leia.
Good messages allow us to believe that we are examining policy. But policies don’t win campaigns. Messages do.
Independent senator Jacqui Lambie says she felt intimidated by Scott Morrison when they were negotiating a secret deal in 2019 to send asylum seekers to New Zealand.
New Zealand will accept 450 refugees from Australia under a three-year deal,which independent senator Jacqui Lambie says was part of a promise Scott Morrison made her.
Some of the nation’s most conservative voices have joined Labor parliamentarians in paying tribute to senator Kimberley Kitching,who suffered a fatal heart attack on Thursday.
As we press cautiously into 2022 after all the pollsters,pundits and epidemiologists failed us last year,CBD once again turns to the woman who can help.
Do the Greens need a new figurehead to go mainstream,or are they just a “hectoring,lecturing mob” on the fringe?
Male politicians have long been treating their female colleagues badly. Sometimes it is a female parliamentarian who offends,as happened this week.
The Tasmanian Senator says she cringes at some of her early speeches. Now she’s taking on One Nation.
Extremists are advancing violent radical agendas under cover of anti-vax and anti-lockdown protests. And the Prime Minister is playing tribal chief instead of leader.