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Pauline Hanson said her “begging and pleading” had gone nowhere with the prime minister.

Hanson says Albanese driving One Nation staff to point of collapse

One Nation has joined the fight to demand the prime minister increase staffing allocations.

  • Brittany Busch

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Jerome Laxale voted in his Bennelong electorate alongside his wife, Jo, last year.

Australia ill-equipped to handle domestic interference, says Labor MP

The warning comes amid escalating threats towards federal politicians and after an alleged terror plot was foiled in WA.

  • Brittany Busch
Fatima Payman with her husband Jacob Stokes.

Firebrand independent senator Fatima Payman expecting a baby

And like tens of thousands of WA’s FIFO families, Payman will now be dealing with an added layer of complexity to her gruelling lifestyle between Perth and Canberra by May – a baby girl.

  • Hamish Hastie
Independent senator Fatima Payman.

Payman’s office gets racist emails ‘daily’, as man sentenced over death threat to WA senator

Independent Senator Fatima Payman said she accepted the court’s sentence, but believed there needed to be more deterrents for racism and hate speech, which her office continued to receive daily.

  • Hamish Hastie
Former Labor senator Graham Richardson, back when he had hair.

How Graham Richardson got a Liberal MP’s high school debating team banned

The late Labor senator’s intervention set a future star on a path towards a career with the Liberal Party.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook
Fatima Payman says an older male colleague made sexually suggestive and racial comments towards her.

Payman alleges older male colleague made sexually suggestive and racial comments

Payman – who is Muslim and does not drink alcohol – alleged a male colleague was intoxicated at a social function and pressed her to drink alcohol.

  • Olivia Ireland
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Greens leader Adam Bandt and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in discussion during Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra on Tuesday 5 September 2023. fedpol Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

Bandt retaliates against Labor by putting teals, Payman before government

Fatima Payman’s chances of gaining a Senate ally have been given a boost by the Greens, after the minor party was infuriated by Labor’s preferencing decision in a critical seat.

  • Paul Sakkal
Australia’s 47th parliament recapped.

Albanese started his prime ministership on a high. Then in one month, things started to unravel

A record-breaking election and one month that changed it all: we recap the highs and lows of the 47th parliament.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
A diverse group of young Melburnians sees Andrew Tate, Fatima Payman, Lidia Thorpe and Donald Trump as the most influential people in today’s society.

What do Donald Trump, Lidia Thorpe, Andrew Tate and big tech have in common? Young Melburnians tell

Five diverse young Melburnians reveal who they see as the most influential figures today and whether cancel culture has gone too far.

  • Hannah Kennelly

It looks like the latest form of protest, and Lidia Thorpe is its master

There will always be a place for protest, but people listen most when respect is on board.

  • Jacqueline Maley