The former Labor leader called time on his parliamentary career on Thursday,earning plaudits from both political friends and foes.
The teals want to raise the tone of debate,but they get the lowest political Scrabble score with the word “racist”.
The teals are inviting us to see the cacophony as something else – stupid,harmful to social civility and,above all,unnecessary.
Kylea Tink said she will explore the possibility of making a complaint about Coalition MPs sending out electronic direct mail that she said is “inflammatory”.
Five years after Brittany Higgins revealed she was raped in a ministerial office,the new laws aim to hold MPs and staffers to account for their actions.
The would-be bruisers of federal parliament turn to that old taunt of schoolkids:“sook”. And manage to consign it to the unparliamentary language bin.
It started with Barnaby Joyce calling the PM a sook and was followed by other MPs during heated sessions of Parliament.
The local government nomination debacle has possibly derailed what could have been the next generation of NSW parliamentarians for at least four years.
In her first week as an independent senator,Payman says she will have to abstain from voting if she feels insufficiently briefed. It’s not an idle warning.
Peter Dutton dismissed independent MP Zali Steggall as a “Green with extreme views”,but faced a backlash over his call on Wednesday to reject migrants from Gaza.
Recordings reveal how Brittany Higgins confided in TV journalist Lisa Wilkinson about her former boss,Linda Reynolds.