Retiring Coalition senator Sam McMahon says the alleged bullying faced by Kimberley Kitching was not confined to Labor and should not be used as a partisan football.
All elections matter but this one comes at a historic inflection point.
Strict financial and travel sanctions will be imposed on 39 Russian individuals responsible for corruption and the abuse and death of Ukrainian-born Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky.
Outgoing Liberal senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells has accused Immigration Minister Alex Hawke,the Prime Minister’s representative in the party’s NSW executive,of “running down the clock” during a flawed preselection process.
Concetta Fierravanti-Wells has tearfully told Parliament she has been the victim of factional warfare,saying “mean girls” aren’t just confined to Labor.
Labor senator Penny Wong has said she will not “return anger with anger” over the death of Kimberley Kitching in a parliamentary tribute to the late senator this morning.
The Labor leader and his deputy spent several days this week hiding from awkward questions. Both looked like timid leaders on the top of a boiling pot.
Commentators and partisans who’ve rushed out to argue that the late Labor senator Kimberley Kitching gave as good as she got in politics have missed the point entirely.
A bid by factional allies of the late Senator Kimberley Kitching to challenge federal Labor’s takeover of the Victorian party has cleared its first legal hurdle.
Labor leader Anthony Albanese has again fended off calls for an inquiry into alleged mistreatment of the late senator Kimberley Kitching.
Kimberley Kitching lost the trust of many on her own side. Video footage of her leaking information,that later turned out to be wrong,begins to tell us why.