Labor

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.

Women played a major role in Labor’s victory in South Australia, with the five seats gained in the lower house all won by female candidates.

Both major parties have announced new policies to address domestic and sexual violence, with Labor pledging to create a new commissioner.

A federal Labor government would commit $24 million to fund Working Women’s Centres across the country in bid to stamp out sexual harassment.

Queenslanders appear to have given Palaszczuk’s government a tick of approval for its health and economic responses to coronavirus.