Sarah Hanson-Young

Australian politics has come a long way since Senator Sarah Hanson-Young was asked to remove her two-year-old daughter from the Senate.

Senator Sarah Hanson-Young has brought attention to environmentally damaging reform by waving a dead salmon wrapped in plastic in parliament.

Peter Dutton is not backing down from his call to impose a “temporary” ban on issuing visas to people escaping the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

At last night’s Midwinter Ball, Greens Senators making a statement with their opulent gowns emblazoned with strong environmental messages.

The Greens will introduce “climate trigger” legislation that would force the government to assess the impact of emissions from future projects.

Men like Tudge and Porter are not anomalies. They’re just the latest examples of men in government who exploit their power.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s speech struck a chord with women and for some in Australia’s federal parliament, like Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, they hit close to home.

Hanson-Young’s defamation ruling goes against the growing tide of political violence that plagues too many women in public life.

Historic numbers of women are running for office. To what extent are they facing something very, very old: the same old sexism and double standards?

In case you haven’t heard, an Australian Senator participated in the weekend’s far-right neo-Nazi rally in St Kinda over the weekend, featuring Nazi salutes .

A crowdfunding campaign to support Sarah Hanson-Young in the defamation proceedings she has brought against David Leyonhjelm has raised $53,745.

Any publicity is good publicity, right? That’s the motto David Leyonhjelm is clinging to. This morning he unleashed a sexist tirade on PM Malcolm Turnbull.