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Independent Senator Lidia Thorpe has slammed Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek’s Murray-Darling Basin Plan water deal with Senator David Van who Thorpe has accused of sexual assault, and the Australian privacy watchdog said it couldn’t do anything about a company accessing personal emails because the employee had used a work laptop.

The Australian government has been urged not to give up on Indigenous truth telling and treaty after the failed voice referendum.

Dave Sharma is back in politics after winning preselection for the NSW Senate seat vacated by Marise Payne, and Australia needs 480,000 tradies over the next three years and the building industry says they should be brought in from overseas.

With 79% of enrolled voters counted nationally, “no” has won the Voice referendum by a 60.7–39.3 margin. “No” has easily won in every state and territory except the ACT.

Country Liberal Party Senator Jacinta Nampijimpa Price says the Coalition will pursue its plan for an inquiry into the money spent on Indigenous Australians — despite it having little chance of success, and girls as young as 12 and 13 are being strip-searched by NSW police in what has been…

Australia will repeat the mistakes of the past if government Indigenous expenditure is not audited, says opposition leader

Both sides of politics are pledging to focus on closing the Indigenous disadvantage gap after a referendum to constitutionally enshrine an advisory body failed.

All hate speech, including anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, must be condemned, the foreign minister says as Israel-Palestine tensions simmer in Australia.

Mourning, calls for truth-telling after Australians vote no to giving Indigenous people more political representation.

Both the 'yes' and 'no' camps say Australia needs to look forward and come together after a referendum to establish an Indigenous voice to parliament failed.

Following the heavy defeat of a constitutionally enshrined Indigenous voice, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander campaigners have endorsed a week of silence.