The Latest Breaking News from Labor

Key Liberal lauds Ley leadership rival on eve of talks

Coalition frontbenchers continue to insist a challenge is not brewing against Sussan Ley as a crucial meeting nears on the party's contentious energy policy.

AAP · Nov 10, 2025

Consumers feeling merry in time for a Christmas splurge

Australian consumers are the most optimistic they've been since early 2022 despite fading prospects of more interest rate cuts.

AAP · Nov 10, 2025

View from The Hill: Albanese says Whitlam’s dismissal ‘calculated plot’; Liberals consumed by current battle

Anthony Albanese has denounced Gough Whitlam’s dismissal from office in 1975 as “a calculated plot, hatched by conservative forces which sacrificed conventions and institutions in the pursuit of power”.

The Conversation · Nov 10, 2025

Forty per cent of Australian women without kids hesitant to have children because of climate change, survey finds

More than a third of Coalition voters believe temperatures will not rise at all, poll shows

The Guardian - AU · Nov 9, 2025

'Cruel game': cracks showing over NDIS scheme shake-up

Tensions have bubbled to the surface over a federal overhaul of support for autistic children to rein in snowballing NDIS scheme costs.

AAP · Nov 9, 2025

Kellie Sloane is tipped to replace Mark Speakman as NSW Liberal leader. That should make life tougher for Chris Minns

Sloane, an ex-journalist, is good at delivering lines. But if the state Coalition tears itself apart over net zero, she could be left talking up a fractured opposition

The Guardian - AU · Nov 8, 2025

Richardson farewelled as a man who did whatever it took

Former Labor senator Graham Richardson has been remembered as a controversial, contrary but well-liked figure who leaves behind a complex legacy.

AAP · Nov 8, 2025

Deputy PM recasts Labor as 'the party of defence'

Red meat was thrown to Labor's party faithful in WA as the state was talked up as the future hub of Australia's defence strategy.

AAP · Nov 8, 2025

Kingmaker, Labor warrior and no stranger to scandal: Graham Richardson dies at 76

There is no modern Australian politician whose name is as synonymous with a certain way of doing politics as that of Graham Richardson, who has died at 76 after a long battle with cancer.

The Conversation · Nov 8, 2025

Labor pollie Richo a factional warlord and eco-warrior

Graham Richardson was a key factional leader in the Hawke-Keating years who had a Damascene conversion in the Tasmanian bush.

AAP · Nov 8, 2025