Factional supremos and union heavyweights remain at odds over issues including the Right faction’s lack of female representation and succession planning for a handful of Labor-held seats.
Prominent employment lawyer Josh Bornstein has ruled himself out of an expected run for Parliament after a series of negative reports appeared in News Corp papers.
A Senate committee has recommended more time teaching Australian values and Indigenous history to improve a ‘disturbingly low’ level of civic engagement and debate.
A 40-year effort to establish a nuclear waste dump in remote SA faces a rocky passage through Parliament after sparking divisions within Labor.
Eight legal and civil society groups on Thursday called on the Senate to establish a new select committee with broad powers to review and report on the government's response to the pandemic.
Key Labor senators object to the government's proposed law,but others believe they should avoid an unnecessary fight when the party faces a bigger test.
The Barnaby Joyce affair changed political culture with senior cabinet ministers now threatening to use salacious gossip for political gain. Where will it end?