You cannot,in good faith,stand for protecting workers while you simultaneously accept a party culture in which poll metrics matter more than the maintenance of a safe work environment.
What set Kimberley Kitching and Fiona Richardson apart from so many others in the Labor Party is that each,in their own fields,engaged in the single-minded pursuit of a policy objective.
Labor frontbenchers Penny Wong,Kristina Keneally and Katy Gallagher have denied claims they bullied their late colleague Kimberley Kitching.
Labor figures say the factional fight over who should run in two Senate and one lower house spots is “emotionally raw”.
“Patriot” has been used to describe the late senator – a lover of language (she spoke six),she would be keen to explain the origin of the word – and her work shows she was just that.
The Labor leader said there was no cultural problem with senior women in the party and described “mean girls” allegations in the wake of Kimberley Kitching’s death as disrespectful.
Prisoners of conscience rot in jails. Regimes terrorise their people. And history will show that,more than any of her parliamentary peers,Kimberley Kitching had their backs.
While the Victorian Labor party is still reeling from the tragic death of Senator Kimberley Kitching,party insiders have begun to discuss who could replace the human rights champion who died at just 52.
It’s time to bust the misconception that heart disease is a man’s disease.
Doctors say the passing of Shane Warne and ALP senator Kimberley Kitching have shone a light on the prevalence of heart disease,as a study reveals COVID-19 may increase the risk of one the nation’s biggest killers.
The late senator was parachuted into Parliament at the request of then-leader Bill Shorten. But his election loss in 2018 and factional upheaval in Victoria left her on the outer.