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Walkley Award winning columnist, author, feminist and social commentator Jane Caro is standing with the Reason Party as a candidate for the federal Senate.

The Morrison government’s cashless debit card was extended for a further two years last week, after Senator Stirling Griff abstained from voting.

Senators have granted a two-year extension to the cashless welfare card program for which there is little supporting evidence.

Amid the hoopla of the budget this week, you might have missed a powerful speech delivered by independent Tasmanian Senator, Jacqui Lambie.

None of the major parties expected Lambie to make the comeback she did. But when she re-entered the Senate earlier this year, a new resolve was clear.

Democratic Senator Wendy Davis showed the true meaning of endurance on the Texan senate floor when she launched a 13 hour filibuster against a proposed anti-abortion bill (SB5) to stop it from landing on Texas Governor Rick Perry’s desk.