The Latest Breaking News from Labor

Counting has resumed for the referendum result, with a majority of Australians voting it down and the 'yes' vote failing to get up in any state.

Government’s closing loopholes bill yet to include superannuation theft, estimated to cost workers $5bn a year

The referendum on the Indigenous Voice to parliament will be held on Saturday. Polls close at 6pm AEDT in the south-eastern states, 6:30pm in South Australia, 7pm in Queensland, 7:30pm in the Northern Territory and 9pm in Western Australia.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will have three speeches ready after the Voice referendum on Saturday night — Yes, No, too close to call — and a ‘green coal’ company owned by two ex-Queensland LNP members was given a $5.5 million grant in the dying days of Scott Morrison’s government.

At some point the Labor bloc will have to adopt a clear position.

Anthony Albanese has invested heart, soul and political authority in his battle to change the Constitution to establish an Indigenous Voice to Parliament. His tears this week at Uluru, when surrounded and celebrated by Aboriginal women, showed a deep well of emotion.

They say they were unaware of the decision about seasonal employees.

MP Kate Chaney will push for a parliamentary committee to be established to ensure recommendations from the robodebt royal commission are delivered.

Mike Burgess issues rare public statement asking ‘all parties consider the implications for social cohesion’