Labor

Labor’s Katelin McInerney has claimed victory at the Kiama by-election, the New South Wales electorate vacated by Gareth Ward. 

New Labor MP Ali France, who unseated former opposition leader Peter Dutton, has delivered an emotional first speech in Parliament.

Senior Labor figures have suggested removing Latham’s portrait from the federal caucus wall, writes Michelle Grattan.

Australia is on course for a hung parliament, polling shows, with the Coalition predicted to be in the best place to form government. 

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

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

This month marks 30 years since the 1994 Australian Labor Party National Conference, where Affirmative Action quotas were adopted for women.

Selena Uibo, the new opposition leader in the Northern Territory, has become the first Indigenous woman to lead a major political party in Australia’s history.

Labor’s new cabinet will be sworn in today, with NT Senator Malarndirri McCarthy to be the new Minister for Indigenous Australians.

The stage 3 tax cuts have been the flavour of the month in the media but polling shows most Australians are in favour of the changes.

Annastacia Palaszczuk said she is “absolutely determined” to remain in power, despite unfavourable polling and rumours of party discontent.

Fathers could be entitled to access 20 week of paid parental leave under new plans being talked about by the new Labor government.