Labor is furious after five make-or-break byelections were scheduled to coincide with its National Conference. Votes will be held on the 28th of July, a so-called Super Saturday, after being delayed due to new regulations and school holidays. Labor Senator Penny Wong has accused the Electoral Commission of making a partisan decision. The party’s Deputy […]

A man sentenced to jail for grooming a nine-year-old girl has been using a fake name to run children’s tennis tournaments in Sydney’s south. Alex Gollan, a former assistant principal at Homebush Public School, called his young student “cutie”, “beautiful” and “Ms naked” while chatting to her on Facebook. The former teacher asked her to […]

Opposition leader Luke Foley is apologising for his “white flight” comments, saying he doesn’t want to “offend anyone”. The state’s labor leader used the term to describe how “Anglo families” are moving away from suburbs like Fairfield because local resources are struggling to cope with an influx of refugees from Syria and Iraq. Now, he’s apologising […]

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson says energy prices should take priority over the government’s proposed company tax cuts. After agreeing to back the government’s corporate cuts months ago, Senator Hanson has pulled her support and dealt the Coalition a major blow. Ms Hanson tells Ross Greenwood the government should focus on power prices and their […]

Labor MP Linda Burney is in hot water after her office was caught out omitting lines from an interview transcript. In an interview with Sky News, Ms Burney backed a time limit on how long refugees can be held in off-shore detention, a position directly contradicting Labor’s policy. Whole paragraphs of the interview were then left […]