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Renegade senator quits LNP to start his own party

Queensland LNP Senator Gerard Rennick says he is creating his own political party to bring "bread and butter" issues into Senate debates.

AAP · Aug 25, 2024

PIF confronts the knotty issue of New Caledonia

The French territory of New Caledonia is at a crossroads, with contentious voting reforms sparking deadly civil unrest. How did we get here?

AAP · Aug 25, 2024

NT election loss an 'indictment' on crime and disunity

As a federal election looms, Labor has been urged to take lessons following its devastating defeat in Saturday's Northern Territory contest .

AAP · Aug 25, 2024

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NT election: the Country Liberals claim a landslide victory in a contest decided in suburbia

The Northern Territory is a different place. On the day prior to this election, Speckles the Adelaide River crocodile was asked to predict the result of the election. He had replaced the previous crocodile, a spiv who got the 2016 and 2020 elections wrong.

The Conversation · Aug 24, 2024

Australia's first parliament marks 200th anniversary

August 25 marks exactly 200 years since the inaugural meeting of NSW Parliament's Upper House, making it Australia's first parliament.

AAP · Aug 24, 2024

Storm warning for Melbourne as wild weather hits Victoria, NSW and South Australia – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU · Aug 24, 2024

Liberals are gone from eight council ballots in Sydney. These ‘stocking-filler’ candidates might have a shot

Administrative bungle opens up opportunities for unlikely contenders – including one who hopes to ‘pull off a Steven Bradbury’

The Guardian - AU · Aug 24, 2024

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Ousted MPs in talks for new deal with minority premier

Tasmania's minority Liberal government will hang on to its grip on power, with two newly independent MPs working on another deal with Premier Jeremy Rockliff.

AAP · Aug 24, 2024

Libs' return to office brings familiar promises for NT

Labor's red sea across the Australian mainland is over after Lia Finnochiaro and the Country Liberals' thumping victory in the Northern Territory.

AAP · Aug 24, 2024

Jacqui Lambie Network MPs out of party

Two Jacqui Lambie Network MPs have parted ways with the party and will serve as independents.

AAP · Aug 24, 2024

Emily Wurramara on surviving a house fire: ‘When I had nothing, I had everything’

In our monthly series Headline Act, we spotlight the Australian artist we’re most excited about – and they make us a playlist

The Guardian - AU · Aug 24, 2024

Western Sydney has long been Labor ground. But is anger over Gaza making voters think twice?

Tony Burke’s seat of Watson could be a defining contest in the next election. Some think of the minister as a ‘powerful ally’ in parliament, but there is also talk of ‘quiet revolution’

The Guardian - AU · Aug 24, 2024

Candidates hope Top End voters are independent thinkers

A swag of independent and Greens candidates could upset safe seats as polling day arrives in the Northern Territory.

AAP · Aug 23, 2024

Country Liberals hand Labor crushing defeat in NT poll

Labor has been bundled out of office in the NT after a massive election swing, with the incoming leader heralding "a new day and a new chapter".

AAP · Aug 23, 2024

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The Guardian - AU · Aug 23, 2024

Government gives itself power to pay any non-citizen to leave Australia

Exclusive: Greens decry expansion of scheme to ‘all non-citizens’ – including those whose asylum claims were rejected after arriving by air – as a ‘bribe’

The Guardian - AU · Aug 23, 2024

Hell hath frozen over as the ‘No-alition’ and Labor find common ground on key legislation – but will it last?

For the middle-majority of Australians, who are weary of our political leaders and their squabbling, ‘their horizon is the end of the week’

The Guardian - AU · Aug 23, 2024

Who will win the NT election? With a volatile and transient electorate, everything is up for grabs

The campaign may have been underwhelming, but the outcome of Saturday’s vote in the Territory is tantalisingly unpredictable

AAP · Aug 23, 2024

Path to NT power paved with promises of more police

On the eve of the election, Territorian concerns about crime have again led the parties to make a swag of promises on policing.

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AAP · Aug 23, 2024

Family courts can inflame gender violence, inquiry told

There are widespread fears family court proceedings can expose women and children experiencing domestic violence to further harm.

AAP · Aug 23, 2024

Former MP's penalty doubled for election Facebook posts

Former Liberal MP Andrew Laming has had his fines doubled on appeal over three Facebook posts found to have breached the law around election campaigns.

The Conversation · Aug 22, 2024

This NT election, even pet crocs are campaign fodder. Just don’t mention the ballooning debt

The Northern Territory is going to the polls this weekend. The incumbent Labor government is under serious challenge from a rejuvenated Country Liberal Party (CLP) opposition, led by Lia Finocchiaro. This is an election mainly about crime and the state of the economy, and neither issue is good for Labor.

AAP · Aug 22, 2024

Stacks of prison punishments 'unlawful, unjust'

Tina was awaiting trial when she asked for help with her drug problem. A damning report has found she was instead charged with failing a drug test.

Newcastle Herald · Aug 22, 2024

Basketball stadium gasworks idea slammed as 'an election ploy'

'It's an attempt to grab for votes.'

AAP · Aug 22, 2024

Plenty of pots left to stir for this retiring pollie

Labor MP Graham Perrett is retiring from politics but the firebrand Queenslander has not finished stirring the pot in parliament.

AAP · Aug 22, 2024

Pollies bicker over dollars and cents as election looms

Scare tactics or the cost of doing business? An NT Treasury report shows the CLP policies could cost frontline workers.

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