An exclusive survey also reveals the challenges for the government in holding support ahead of the next election,with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese slumping to minus 3 per cent in net likeability.
Ex-Liberal senator David Van’s use of his official social media accounts to message women – using terms like “babe” and “hon” – raised alarm in Scott Morrison’s office in 2021.
Cox and Thorpe once had offices 20 metres apart,separated only by a mail room,but the Greens First Nations spokeswoman has now moved as far away as possible.
Independent senator Lidia Thorpe heckles Greens senator Dorinda Cox and acting Senate president Louise Pratt over who gets to speak first in the chamber.
Thousands attended the seventh consecutive pro-Palestine rally in Melbourne’s CBD on Sunday,when speakers criticised a four-day truce in fighting as not going far enough.
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton is facing off against Victorian counterpart John Pesutto as they back opposing candidates to replace senator David Van.
The independent senator says she has spent months living out of a suitcase in “exile” due to far-right threats,and one of her children and her dog had been put into separate accommodation.
Although the proposal for an Indigenous Voice to parliament was defeated nationwide,Victoria was far closer than polling suggested.
Between the incoming prime minister’s election-night pledge and the final weeks of intense campaigning,these events defined the Voice referendum.
Months after Lidia Thorpe left the party over her opposition to the Voice,the party is still deeply divided on the referendum.
The former Greens senator says it was a “dog act” by then-premier Daniel Andrews to announce the towers would be rebuilt just six days before he quit politics.