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Prominent senator says she does not believe the proposal will address the longstanding issues facing Aboriginal people.

The No campaign is riddled with racism. That’s not surprising, given its logic is fundamentally racist.

‘I don’t want to become an old crusty politician with old daggy ideas, we need new people coming in with fresh ideas.’

Recent sustained anti-coal action by Blockade Australia in the Hunter Valley has brought public protest back into the news cycle. Activists have occupied trains, railway lines and machinery in an attempt to obstruct coal production and broadcast their message about the climate crisis.

PM reels off names of prominent yes campaigners backing ‘a moment of national unity’

In this week’s federal Newspoll, conducted with a longer-than-usual fieldwork period (June 16–24) from a larger-than-usual sample of 2,303 people, the “no” vote to the Indigenous Voice to Parliament took the lead by 47–43%, reversing a “yes” lead of 46–43% three weeks ago. Newspoll figures are from The Poll Bludger.

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews withdraws his ‘half-wit grub’ insult aimed at a Liberal MP but doesn’t apologise, and could the Albanese government use its housing fund stalemate as a trigger for a double dissolution?

Winston Churchill once observed that “democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others that have been tried”.

Debate on the Voice bill drew opposition and sometimes inflammatory rhetoric from opposite poles of the political spectrum.