The Latest Breaking News from Lidia Thorpe

Anthony Albanese has urged Lidia Thorpe to seek “some support”, in his first public comments since the Senator's latest controversy.

Michaelia Cash, attorney-general in the last year of the Morrison government, is tipped to be named shadow attorney-general today, and a Queensland Health study has declared long COVID is no worse than a long flu.

The Greens co-founder didn’t hold back in a far-reaching interview with Crikey, weighing in on the danger of AUKUS, his admiration for Extinction Rebellion activists, and Lidia Thorpe’s Mardi Gras protest.

The Yes and No referendum campaigns have both been established but are taking very different strategies in the run up to the referendum. While the Yes campaign is largely centralised, the No campaign is being run by multiple groups. So who are they?

A Wurundjeri elder has been stopped from performing a Welcome to Country at Barack Obama’s Australia tour, and Sweden has summoned the Russian ambassador after he threatened that the country and its neighbour Finland would become “legitimate targets” if they joined NATO.

A rally attended by the CFMEU, Greens, and independent senators called for more ambitious commitments to social and affordable housing.

Senator Lidia Thorpe’s defection from the Greens changed the power dynamic in the Senate. Now the government needs two crossbenchers (and the Greens) to pass legislation opposed by the Coalition. Tasmanian Senator Jacqui Lambie and her colleague Tammy Tyrrell can provide those two votes, which puts them in a potentially…

Former minister for Indigenous Australians says Liberal opposition to voice could add to ‘global perception’ they are a ‘racist party’

Andrew Bolt and Joe Hildebrand get stuck into socialists; Sky News has a field day about Pocock’s Tame Impala T-shirt