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Leigh Sales and Annabel Crabb are two of Australia’s most high-profile political journalists, but away from their day jobs, they don’t take themselves too seriously. They love to laugh, talk about the latest TV shows, and poke fun at each other. For a decade, Sales has been the anchor of the ABC’s flagship current affairs … Read more
As the ICAC hearings in New South Wales are showing, the issue of integrity in Australian politics is a murky one that is rightly being held up to scrutiny, writes Andy Marks, Western Sydney University and Rae Dufty-Jones, Western Sydney University in this article republished from The Conversation. A few days into the current Independent … Read more
This week is Youth Voice in Parliament Week, with politicians from across the political spectrum reading 90 second speeches written by young people from their electorate or state. The initiative, run by Raise Our Voice Australia, has seen numerous politicians put forward the views of their young constituents. On Tuesday, Senator Penny Wong delivered a … Read more
The NSW government will spend nearly $500 million to help tackle domestic and family violence and establish extra women’s refuges across the state. The funding package, announced on Tuesday, is the single biggest investment in domestic and family violence in the state’s history. The investment includes $426.6 million over four years to deliver and operate … Read more
Yamatji and Noongar woman Dorinda Cox has become the first Aboriginal woman to represent Western Australia in the federal senate. Cox was sworn in to the senate on Monday, after winning the Greens’ preselection to replace retired senator, Rachel Siewert. Cox’s entrance to the parliament takes the number of Indigenous people currently in the federal … Read more
2021 has been a hell of a year (to put it mildly) and then, on top of global chaos, we had certain individuals icing the cake with egregious displays of sexism. Tomorrow night, the Annual Ernies Awards will return in full force to celebrate/commiserate the extent some dinosaurs will go to diminish women. In it’s … Read more
Women fleeing domestic violence will now be eligible for a new, one-off payment of up to $5000 under a two-year trial established by the federal government. Under the new scheme, women will receive up to $1,500 in cash, with the remainder of the amount available for goods and services, direct payments of bonds, school fees … Read more
NSW Premier, Dominic Perrottet announced the happy news on Facebook last night that he and his wife Helen are expecting their seventh child with a joke about needing another photo frame. “Exciting family news,’’ he wrote. “Our family photo wall is going to need another frame! Helen and I are thrilled to announce we have … Read more
Barnaby Joyce needs more time. And apparently addressing climate change in Australia really is all about him. Emerging from a failed Nationals party room discussion on whether to agree to a net-zero emissions target, Joyce declared that “we won’t be held hostage to what other people wish”, and that the Coalition may never come to … Read more
NSW Chief Health Officer, Kerry Chant was an unsettling no-show at yesterday’s COVID press conference. As new Premier Dominic Perrotet presented a much-altered “roadmap” out of the pandemic, with the emphasis now squarely on economic recovery, it was clear that the new parameters had not been cleared by the CHO. Yesterday afternoon that was confirmed, … Read more