More than 10 crossbenchers united on Monday in parliament to condemn Labor’s handling of a major overhaul of Australia’s election system.
Labor argues keeping United States-style mega-spending out of politics is a good thing for Australian democracy.
Kate Chaney talks about what her prominent West Australian political family taught her,and about being bold on climate policy in a mining town.
The seven women who won formerly blue-ribbon Liberal seats in Melbourne,Sydney and Perth promised a “new way” of doing politics. How have they changed the parliament?
Teal independents,the Greens and even Labor MPs are pushing back against the government’s gas plan as a Morrison-era rerun.
The recent Tim Tszyu-Sebastian Fundora fight,much hyped by the media,developed into a bloodbath,serving only to prove that professional boxing on which so many promoters,agents and other hangers-on sponge livings,is a decadent activity.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and senior minister Don Farrell have turned their sights on a group of crossbenchers in a debate over big money in politics.
An individual,company or third-party activist group who could currently contribute an unlimited amount to a campaign will be outlawed from giving huge sums to parties.
Curtin independent MP Kate Chaney is confident the political winds that swept her and five colleagues in similar electorates across the country to power were part of an ongoing movement rather than a fleeting moment.
The teal independent,who is glad to be free of “party ideologies”,says her constituents’ action and work will help her advocate for them at a federal level.
In view of what has transpired,the NSW state government has to publish the traffic modelling that must have been done at the time the now-notorious Rozelle interchange was being designed.