Senator Lidia Thorpe was called the “Queen of Irrelevance” and Senator Murray Watt a “dick” on the ABC's Q+A program on Monday. Host Patricia Karvelas brought the show to Brisbane this week ahead of Saturday's Queensland state election, in which Labor is expected to lose power after 10 years in government.
WA Liberal Senator Michaelia Cash has attacked Prime Minister Anthony Albanese over his handling of the Middle East crisis, accusing him of having a “clear bias against Israel”. Speaking at the Liberal state conference at Crown Perth on Saturday, Senator Cash also hit out at Mr Albanese for his insistence on holding a referendum on … Read more
A National Party senator has launched an attack on the aviation giants, demanding that the regulator be able to break up companies that abuse their market power.
If the Canberra bubble bursts, the mud will stick and there will be hardly any place to hide. During a five-week, spectacular defamation trial between Senator Linda Reynolds and her former employee Brittany Higgins, all private text messages and emails between federal ministers, senators, employees, journalists in the press gallery and lawyers were made public.
One of Senator Linda Reynolds' closest colleagues and friends recalled watching her “be brought to her knees” following relentless attacks on her mishandling of Brittany Higgins' rape complaint.
The opposition minister for indigenous peoples has sharply criticised the Office of Environmental Protection and raised concerns about people posing as Aboriginal people in the wake of the rejection of a planning application for a billion-dollar gold mine.
Brittany Higgins will no longer testify in the defamation trial against Senator Linda Reynolds.
Senator Linda Reynolds' chief of staff when Brittany Higgins was allegedly raped in Parliament will not be called as a witness alongside her former employee in the sensational defamation trial against the politician. Senator Reynolds is suing her former staffer Ms Higgins – who is fighting the suit – over a series of social media … Read more
Independent Senator Fatima Payman is not ruling out forming her own political party as she consults with her new chief of staff, Glenn Druery, on how best to spend the remainder of her four-year term in the Senate. The Western Australian senator, who left the Labor Party in July after switching parties to publicly take … Read more
A decision will be made as to whether Senator Linda Reynolds' former chief of staff, Fiona Brown, will be excused from giving personal testimony.