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Elizabeth Watt, a former employee of Australia’s peak, publicly funded women safety organisation, had to escalate a dispute to the Federal Court after being denied her job back following maternity leave.

Elizabeth worked at Australia’s top women’s safety body - until she went on mat leave

Elizabeth Watt spent years fighting the federal agency after being denied her pre-parental leave role. Her case exposes a loophole that experts say leaves mothers lagging the rest of the world.

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Anthony Albanese is telling the public he understands why they are drawn to Pauline Hanson’s One Nation.

Labor ramps up Hanson attacks, as Taylor rebukes ally in phone call

The Coalition has also gone on the attack about Pauline Hanson’s admission on the Inside Politics podcast that her party was being “infiltrated by extremists”.

  • Paul Sakkal
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Jobseeker services to get first overhaul in 30 years

The one-size-fits-all scheme will be replaced by three streams as Labor grapples with the best way to assist the country’s growing cohort of long-term unemployed people.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
Workplace Relations Minister Amanda Rishworth said the recommendation was crucial for lower paid workers.

Labor pushes real-wage increase for millions of workers despite inflation fears

The federal government has requested the increase in its annual submission to the Fair Work Commission, but does not go as far as the country’s biggest union.

  • Nick Newling
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Attorney-General Michelle Rowland.

Tax on truth: Coalition, Greens team up to block Labor’s controversial laws

Coalition and Greens senators are set to reject the bill once it reaches the Senate.

  • Nick Newling
Shadow Minister for Small Business, and Shadow Minister for Industrial Relations and Employment, Tim Wilson and Shadow Assistant Minister to the Leader of the Opposition, Shadow Assistant Minister for Women, and Shadow Assistant Minister for Child Protection and the Prevention of Family Violence Senator Maria Kovacic address the media at a press conference, at Parliament House in Canberra on Monday 27 October 2025. fedpol Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

Wilson says Albanese ‘tainted’ by CFMEU connection, demands official grilling

A top CFMEU official remains a member of Labor’s top decision-making body where he sits alongside elected MPs and the prime minister.

  • Paul Sakkal and Brittany Busch
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Albanese’s answer to the CFMEU rot looks short of the mark

The federal government insists the troubled union’s administration is doing its job well, but the recent evidence suggests otherwise.

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Underworld figure Mick Gatto pictured last year.

‘Have a great life’: Gatto’s message to his building contacts after secret CFMEU meeting revealed

The Coalition’s industrial spokesman Tim Wilson said public trust in the turnaround effort had collapsed after the union’s “golden boy” facilitated a meeting with an underworld figure.

  • Nick Newling and Hannah Hammoud
Kathy Hodgson is fighting to have her birth certificate changed.

A false birth certificate and a DNA test: Kathy’s fight to have her real identity recognised

On top of the trauma of discovering she is adopted, Kathy Hodgson is battling bureaucracy to overturn an official lie.

  • Claire Moodie
Western Sydney International Airport is involved in a construction sector scandal.

Ministers demand answers over Western Sydney Airport violence, intimidation claims

Infrastructure Minister Catherine King has written to the airport’s corporation after allegations of criminality from a key contractor.

  • Nick Newling, Paul Sakkal, Alexandra Smith and David Swan