Sex offender MP to face expulsion bid after court loss A state MP convicted and jailed of rape and indecent assault has been rebuked by a court after losing a rushed bid to prevent his parliamentary expulsion. AAP · Aug 6, 2025
Arsenic in the damper, campers driven off a cliff: the murky historical links of AACo, Australia’s largest beef producer Jesse Gregson led massacres of Aboriginal people before joining the Australian Agricultural Company as its longest-serving superintendent The Guardian - AU · Aug 6, 2025
Jeremy Rockliff reappointed as Tasmanian premier as Labor signals another no-confidence motion Liberal insists he will govern for four years but authority to be tested within weeks when parliament returns The Guardian - AU · Aug 6, 2025
'One-trick pony' MP bucks off parliament censure motion Controversial MP Mark Latham has staved off a bid to draw a line under his alleged abuse of parliamentary privilege, hurling more vitriol during debate. AAP · Aug 5, 2025
Trek tackles heart disease cruelling Indigenous lives The Deadly Heart Trek is visiting remote communities, to educate, and treat rheumatic heart disease, which disproportionately affects Indigenous people. AAP · Aug 5, 2025
Mark Latham escapes NSW censure motion for now – but faces privileges committee Vote on conduct of independent MP delayed until investigation into his handling of information about police chief Karen Webb completed The Guardian - AU · Aug 5, 2025
Chris Minns stares down backbench revolt over handling of Sydney Harbour Bridge protest Motion condemning destruction of Gaza effectively removed from consideration by caucus and far more modest version passed The Guardian - AU · Aug 5, 2025
Afternoon Update: Gareth Ward delays expulsion from NSW parliament; Australia’s biggest battery; and the joy of cooking for one The member for Kiama has sought an injunction from the New South Wales supreme court to stop his parliamentary colleagues expelling him The Guardian - AU · Aug 5, 2025
Woman claims she was left with fractured rib after NSW police allegedly pushed her to ground during arrest Police are investigating the alleged incident which took place outside a school in Bungendore in July The Guardian - AU · Aug 5, 2025
Indigenous group in legal bid to stop Olympic park plan Plans to convert a park into the 2032 Olympic centrepiece are facing legal action from an Indigenous group who say it will damage a significant cultural site. AAP · Aug 5, 2025
First Nations group launches federal appeal to block construction of main Brisbane 2032 Olympics stadium Application lodged for permanent legal protection of Victoria Park, where state and federal governments plan to spend billions on sports infrastructure The Guardian - AU · Aug 5, 2025
NSW faces constitutional showdown as parliament’s push to expel convicted rapist Gareth Ward delayed by supreme court Both major parties want to expel Ward from parliament after he was convicted, but the Kiama MP has engaged lawyers from his prison cell The Guardian - AU · Aug 5, 2025
Jailed MP stalls expulsion in 'highly unusual' move A disgraced MP in jail for sexual assault is resisting being forced to give up his seat in parliament after a court foiled a government's bid to oust him. AAP · Aug 4, 2025
Morning Mail: reckoning for a colonial massacre, Musk’s $US29bn payday, the politics of Sydney Sweeney Our Descendants investigation joins ancestors of Indigenous victims and white settlers The Guardian - AU · Aug 4, 2025
AAP · Aug 4, 2025 Labor vows to fight on as premier makes power move A state premier will go to the governor to seek power within days, but the opposition leader says it's not the only option as he step up negotiations.
The Guardian - AU · Aug 4, 2025 Traditional owners call for diaries of WA settler who killed Aboriginal people to be released in full Major Logue’s diaries use code to describe the frontier killings of Yamatji people but a local publisher plans to omit the coded sections from publication
The Guardian - AU · Aug 4, 2025 Families unite at site of massacre in Western Australia: ‘Something spoke through me’ More than 170 years after shocking bloodshed at Bootenal Springs, there is at last a reckoning
The Guardian - AU · Aug 4, 2025 Afternoon Update: PM seeks call with Netanyahu after march; second Queensland DNA lab bungle; and a coffee rave Anthony Albanese is seeking a call with his Israeli counterpart after at least 100,000 people marched across the Sydney Harbour Bridge for Gaza
The Guardian - AU · Aug 4, 2025 Chris Minns faces angry backlash from caucus over ‘risible’ Sydney Harbour Bridge protest stance Members of caucus planning to move a motion condemning the conditions in Gaza and endorsing the right to protest
The Guardian - AU · Aug 3, 2025 Morning Mail: killings hidden in coded diaries of WA settler, huge Gaza protest on Sydney Harbour Bridge, Piastri second in Hungary Diary entries tell bloody story of Australia’s past; tens of thousands cross Sydney Harbour Bridge to protest against Gaza war; thrilling end to Hungarian GP
The Guardian - AU · Aug 3, 2025 These brothers grew up revering their great-uncle Bill. Then the full story came out Constable Bill McKinnon shot an Aboriginal man at Uluru. Facing up to crimes like this is part of the work Indigenous Australians have been calling on colonial descendants to do for decades – to ‘be brave’ and seek out the truth. It’s why Guardian Australia has launched this project
Evening Standard · Aug 3, 2025 Two more men charged over Epping migrant hotel disorder Nine others have already been charged by the CPS.
AAP · Aug 3, 2025 Former political rivals band together on gender parity A cross-party group will come together to form a national advisory board aimed at increasing female participation across local, state, and federal governments.
AAP · Aug 3, 2025 Indigenous children's commissioner to begin urgent work Australia's first National Commissioner for Aboriginal Children and Young People has been appointed, tasked with elevating the voices of Indigenous kids.
The Guardian - AU · Aug 3, 2025 Bad men problem: Gareth Ward and Mark Latham leave NSW parliament in uncharted territory The two MPs’ cases are vastly different but the issue is the same: parliament’s rules to enforce standards of behaviour are hopelessly outdated and ineffectual