The Latest Breaking News from Cathy McGowan

The member for Indi spent years fighting for a national anti-corruption commission. One year in, how does she feel the NACC is faring?

Plus, a novel idea to improve the behaviour of Australian parliamentarians.

For many voters despairing about the gridlock and lack of integrity in Australian politics in recent years, the success of the teal independents in the May 2022 federal election was an exhilarating moment. They won six formerly safe Liberal seats, returned four independents - Zali Steggall in Warringah, Helen Haines…

Historically conservative but now highly marginal, the north-east Victorian electorate of Benambra — enveloped by firmly independent federal seat Indi — is one to watch on Saturday.

Michael Ball says Cathy McGowan has always been his fiercest critic... and his fiercest supporter. And it showed when it came to her review of his debut novel, The Empire

The prospects of Australia securing a strong federal anti-corruption agency have taken a huge leap forward, with introduction of the Albanese government’s much awaited National Anti-Corruption Commission bill into federal parliament.

Warrnambool-based independent will challenge Liberal MP Roma Britnell in the seat of South-West Coast

Regional women are too often forgotten in Australia’s political movements. The “big teal steal” focuses on the independent candidates from Melbourne and Sydney, forgetting that independent Cathy McGowan stole the seat of Indi from the Liberals a decade earlier.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has pledged to “change the way” we do politics in Australia by avoiding soundbites and “actually answering questions”. This is part of his plan for “rebuilding respect” for politics itself.