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Labor to lock in federal candidates in NSW

Labor will aim to finalise pre-selections for key NSW federal seats after controversy over parachuting Kristina Keneally into a safe southwest Sydney electorate.

Labor’s Fitzgibbon to retire from politics

Long-serving federal Labor MP Joel Fitzgibbon, whose electorate covers NSW coal country, will retire from parliament at the next election.

ACT senator Katy Gallagher confirms daughter has coronavirus

Senator Katy Gallagher wants to see more teenagers vaccinated against coronavirus after her 14-year-old daughter contracted the disease. 

Labor targets ‘dodgy’ grant funding calls

Community groups could soon get a much better understanding of how federal grant funding decisions are made.

Not interested in top job, Shorten insists

Bill Shorten insists he has no interest in returning to the leadership of the Labor party, dismissing a story that he has been discussing this issue with colleagues as "boring" and unsourced.

Labor gains clear Newspoll lead during Sydney lockdown, but will the economy save Coalition?

This week’s Newspoll, gave Labor a 53-47 lead, a two-point gain for Labor since the previous Newspoll three weeks ago.

Treasurer defends pre-poll car park fund

Josh Frydenberg has defended allocating $660 million to commuter car parks in Liberal and marginal seats before the last federal election.

Labor wants answers on car park rorts

Labor continues to pressure Scott Morrison to explain why hundreds of millions of dollars were spent building car parks in coalition seats.

Labor calls for car park ‘rorts’ hearings

Labor is demanding parliamentary hearings into a commuter car park program which has been savaged as an industrial scale rort.

Beware the politics of statue-erection

Labor and Greens women MLAs are promoting a petition to erect a statue of a prominent woman in Canberra by 2023.

Plea for new government to prioritise social justice

Despite the unknown final makeup of the tenth ACT Legislative Assembly, not for profit ACT Council of Social Service (ACTCOSS) has urged Labor and the Greens to prioritise social justice policies in...

Alicia Payne MP welcomes second child

Member for Canberra, Alicia Payne MP, has given birth to her second child, a daughter named Elena Patricia Phillips, at Canberra Hospital on Monday 14 September.

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