Anthony Albanese has delivered a blistering character assessment of outgoing Liberal MP Stuart Robert as he launched the campaign of the woman who hopes to replace him in parliament. Letitia Del Fabbro will vie for the safe LNP seat of Fadden on Queensland’s Gold Coast at a by-election on JulyContinue Reading
Ex-Greens Senator Lidia Thorpe has revealed she will quit her $200,000-a-year Senate job when her term expires and that she left her party because of “racism”. Defending her take-no-prisoners approach and her strip club melee in an interview with 60 Minutes’ Karl Stefanovic, she also predicted the ‘No’ case willContinue Reading
Australia’s solicitor-general has advised that the voice to parliament “will not fetter or impede the exercise of existing powers of Parliament” smashing the proposals’ critics, including Liberal leader Peter Dutton. After weeks of calls to release the secret legal advice on what the proposal would mean for Australia’s system ofContinue Reading
A proposed Indigenous Voice will not have the power to veto parliament, Linda Burney has confirmed. But the Indigenous Australians minister has declined to outline any further details about the body insisting she did not want to “get ahead” of the working groups tasked with the proposal’s consultation. “I haveContinue Reading