A collision of state v federal law on voluntary assisted dying has had tragic consequences. And a Labor conscience vote that never reaches parliament is no conscience vote at all

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Secretary and president of Australian Council of Trade Unions announced surprise departures on Monday evening

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The NSW anti-corruption watchdog has begun a public inquiry into allegations of branch stacking, illegal donations and interference with preselections

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Taking place once every three years, the Labor party conference can be a chance to have open debates on vexed policy issues – but this one was different.

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In his memoir, the former Qantas chief executive denies using the lounge as a tool to influence politicians

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Exclusive: Resurfaced comments by the One Nation leader underline her criticism of paid family violence leave and domestic violence support groups

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Commonwealth and Western Australia to fund study into construction of large-scale petrol refinery as buffer against fuel vulnerability

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BirdLife Australia says discoveries of sick and dead local seabirds in South Australia show outbreak is ‘taking hold’

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Exclusive: Malcolm Roberts uses white supremacist concept to describe the party’s plans for deporting 200,000 people from Australia

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New England MP previously supported Armidale becoming a refugee resettlement site. Now he’s flagging a possible exception to his new party’s strict English-language requirement

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Journalist and author Cory Doctorow is coming to Australia to spread his message – humans will take their jobs back

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As deputy prime minister and Nationals MP for New England, Barnaby Joyce supported a campaign for the town of Armidale to be a site for resettling refugees. Now, as a member of One Nation, his party advocates for limiting migration to Australia to thos

Speaking with political editor Tom McIlroy and chief political correspondent Dan Jervis-Bardy at the 50th Labor conference in Adelaide, Peter Malinauskas talks about his own state contest with One Nation and why progre

Kate Ellis now heads an all-female executive as women hold a majority in the party room for the first time. But when talk turns to leadership, women barely rate

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One Nation is borrowing heavily from the Maga playbook. But constant claims of being misquoted predate the US president’s

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Having met Nigel Farage, Rupert Lowe and Tommy Robinson, Pauline Hanson is deploying their rhetoric in a country with a very different history of immigration

In a 1950 essay, the critic AA Phillips wrote of a “cultural cringe” in which insecure A

MP says he’ll continue to break ranks as party’s national conference ends without major fight over Israel and Palestine

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Ed Husic’s push for Labor to recognise cla

Speaking with political editor Tom McIlroy and chief political correspondent Dan Jervis-Bardy at the 50th Labor conference in Adelaide, Peter Malinauskas talks about his own state contest with One Nation and why progre

Tony Barry and George Megalogenis (filling in for Barrie Cassidy) give their view on One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce’s viral moment this week and why they think it played well to his party’s base.

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Exclusive: Uranium waste from Aukus submarines will be enriched to an estimated 80%: the same level as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima

Australia’s proposed nuclear submarine fleet will leave behind tonnes of weapons-usable uranium-

No politician is as good at evading scrutiny as the One Nation leader, whose actions this week would be disqualifying if she represented any other party

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Tony Barry and George Megalogenis (filling in for Barrie Cassidy) give their view on One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce’s viral moment this week and why they think it played well to his party’s base.

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The One Nation leader has allied herself with men’s rights activists for years, consistently suggesting women routinely make false allegations of violence

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Australian exports sent to the US will be hit with a 12.5% tariff as the US president imposes levies on more than 80 nations.

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Australia’s trade minister, Don Farrell, says tariff regime is unjustified and inconsistent with free trade agreement with US

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Only one MP is publicly warning the party’s allergy to ‘dissent’ could become an electoral liability

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Digital billboards from environmental groups, targeting Labor MPs attending national conference, cancelled with airport stating they are ‘too political’

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In a fortnight of rolling blunders, the One Nation leader digs deep into the Trump playbook of blame-shifting

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One Nation leader labels family violence leave ‘ridiculous’ and decries ‘woke’ support of women’s rights in November podcast

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Pauline Hanson has described paid lea

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Self-reported domestic violence incidents declining in NSW but deaths and hospitalisations fail to fall

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Criticism comes as prime minister frames unity as point of difference to political opponents, saying ALP chooses ‘progress over protest’

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A change in the ALP’s platform signals the fight to get a fair return for our resources is not over

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Despite substantial reservations about the submarine deal, it’s unlikely to be seriously examined at the ALP national conference

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The companies hope to follow in the footsteps of SpaceX, which raised $86bn and soared to a $2.1tn valuation after it listed on public markets in June

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Anthony Albanese will cast ‘practical’ policies as the key to countering the anxiety and frustration in Australia

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Foreign minister Penny Wong will deliver speech criticising China’s recent launch of a nuclear-capable submarine-launched missile

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Penny Wong will warn China that

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The New South Wales premier, Chris Minns, says the state’s Labor party is under threat from One Nation and “we’ve got to

Ten-second ‘siren’ to blare on most phones on Monday as part of national test despite reservations from some states

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One Nation leader criticised by advocates after telling women being abused: ‘don’t put up with it’

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There has been no end to the negative headlines generated in response to comments made by Pauline Hanson on her trip overseas – and it has forced members of One Nation, including Barnaby Joyce, to defend and explain her actions back home.

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The former Rudd/Gillard government minister has a plan for fighting back against populists including Pauline Hanson

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Barnaby Joyce had been defending One Nation leader Pauline Hanson’s ‘working holiday’ on ABC current affairs show

The Australian politician Pauline Hanson – a populist, hard-right figure in the Nigel Farage mould – probably expected her European

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Alpine ski resorts in New South Wales and Victoria saw climate records shattered at the weekend with maximum temperatures up to 12C above

In a moment that has gone quickly viral online, Australia’s former deputy prime minister startled viewers when he bellowed at his dog offscreen

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Countering the populist challenge to liberal democracy requires something of a reset

The British love a coronation. That’s how the arrival of Andy Burnham into 10 Downing Street is being described in the UK. On Friday, Burnham was “crowned” as La

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One Nation leader posts network’s proposal to travel to UK to explore what Australia faces ‘if we don’t take back control of who comes to our country’

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AMWU calls for wealth and inheritance taxes, free education and more revenue from gas companies as it outlines ‘working-class agenda’

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