Prime Minister Anthony Albanese with Nikki Osborne on the Bush Deep comedy podcast last week.

PM apologises for crude Kylie Minogue remarks

The comments were condemned as inappropriate for the nation’s leader to make.

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Brethren members wearing short skirts,shorts and Liberal candidate T-shirts in the seat of Kooyong during the 2025 campaign.

‘An assault on our democracy’:New push to clean up election day chaos

A new federal report recommends a serious crackdown on election campaigners’ behaviour:“It is only a matter of time before someone is seriously injured.”

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Community Strong Australia founders Zali Steggall and Allegra Spender addressing the media on Thursday morning.

Steggall hopes fallen teals join party,seeks independents’ support in Senate

Community Strong Australia will seek to bring Zoe Daniel and Kylea Tink back into the fold,and to convince independent MPs to back the party in the Senate.

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It’s party time for these two teals. Now they must find some movers and shakers

Zali Steggall and Allegra Spender have launched a new political party,Community Strong Australia. It marks another step in the restructuring of our politics.

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 Zali Steggall and Allegra Spender during a press conference to announce the new party at Parliament House.

As the first ‘teal’ MP for Wentworth,I have many questions about this new party

Microparties can,in time,grow into a significant political force. Look at One Nation.

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Community Strong Australia founders Zali Steggall and Allegra Spender addressing the media on Thursday morning.

Spender and Steggall have power to handpick teal party candidates

While Community Strong Australia will remain leaderless,the party’s constitution says its two MPs oversee who is in and who is out.

  • Nick Newling
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Member for Wentworth Allegra Spender (left) and Member for Warringah Zali Steggall.

Teals reveal name,logo and founding principles of new party – but there’s no leader

Independents Zali Steggall and Allegra Spender will form a new political party,Community Strong Australia,hoping to gain a spot in the Senate.

  • Jacqueline Maley
Independent MPs Allegra Spender and Zali Steggall addressing media after news broke of their nascent party.

Teal party would fall short of minor party status as independents back away

A party of independent MPs is expected to form as soon as this week,but approaches to strong candidates and sitting state MPs have not been made.

  • Nick Newling
The review came after people who worked at the AOFM blew the whistle to Treasurer Jim Chalmers and senior Treasury officials about concerns they had about the leadership and capacity of the agency.

National security risk as parliamentary network fails seven out of eight basic cyber checks

A damning report from the auditor-general reveals deep vulnerabilities across critical federal government safeguards,amid warnings the system may no longer be fit for purpose against sophisticated foreign espionage.

  • Rob Harris
Independent MP Zali Steggall’s WhatsApp account was hacked in March.

Zali Steggall’s WhatsApp hacked in suspected Russian attack

The account was hacked in March as part of a phishing scheme believed to have been orchestrated by Russia and leading to WhatsApp being blocked on parliamentary laptops.

  • Matthew Knott