‘Whatever,let the purge begin’. Some Coalition MPs think a new parliamentary watchdog would be used to pursue vendettas,but Lidia Thorpe says it should be a lot tougher.
The possibility that federal politicians could be docked up to 5 per cent of their salary for misbehaviour is a welcome and long-overdue reform.
Thorpe railed against fellow senators and interrupted other speakers in a bid to make a speech about an Indigenous mother and son,prompting the Senate to shut down early.
The Senate shut down early on Tuesday night,after Seantor Lidia Thorpe refused to stop speaking.
Senator Barbara Pocock retreated to her parliamentary office in Canberra for a critical meeting with fellow kingmaker David Pocock last week. The mood was tense.
A political fight is brewing over new rules to punish badly behaved MPs,more than two years after the then-Morrison government agreed to create a federal watchdog to police politicians’ behaviour.
A right to disconnect has been inserted into Labor’s latest industrial reforms,under which employers face fines or criminal sanctions if they fail to comply.
Think your boss is calling you too much after work? You will soon have a way to stop them under legislation going before parliament.
The former Labor senator led the campaign to free the Aboriginal flag from copyright restrictions and is now leading a campaign to keep it out of pro-Palestine rallies.
A blistering Productivity Commission review says governments have not delivered on their landmark 2020 agreement to transform the way public servants and politicians work with Indigenous Australians.
From the Voice to parliament referendum,stabilising relations with China,war in Gaza,the High Court’s curveball on indefinite detention,and a cost of living crisis,it has been a bumper political year.