Australian politics

North Sydney MP Kylea Tink announces she won’t run for a seat in the House of Representatives at the 2025 federal election. 

Financial abuse is a widespread issue with a direct cost to victims estimated at $5.7 billion, according to a report, tabled in Parliament. 

It took a long time, but Victorian MP Georgie Purcell speaks openly about her past. As a former stripper, and now an advocate for sex workers’ rights in Victoria and nationwide, she knows firsthand just how harmful stigmas and stereotypes around sex work can be.

For the first time, a National Anti-Racism Framework has been launched, providing a roadmap to address all forms of racism in Australia. 

World-record holding marathon runner Erchana Murray-Bartlett to run as an Independent for the long-held Liberal seat of McPherson.

Women living with endometriosis will have access to a new treatment on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme for the first time in three decades. 

Labor’s housing legislation has passed in the Senate after the Greens announced it would back the Bill it has opposed for months.

The government will require social media platforms to assume a “digital duty of care”, says communications minister, Michelle Rowland. 

Political transparency questioned after claims that Anthony Albanese sought Qantas flight upgrades. Independents call for lobbying reform.

A new social enterprise is bringing more Australians into the democratic process and re-establish trust between politicians and communities. 

Fatima Payman will launch a political party ahead of the next election, confirming she has recruited “disenfranchised Labor party supporters”.

Labor has preselected south-western Sydney community lawyer Tu Le to run for the seat of Fowler in next May’s federal election.