The Latest Breaking News from Zali Steggall

Independents are increasingly working together. But does that undermine the very point of them?

New vehicle efficiency standards (NVES) will not apply to at least four large vehicles, source says

Independent MP Zali Steggall tells Crikey she wasn’t planning to call the opposition racist but did so after heckling.

Barack Obama has coined what may well become a new chant for Kamala Harris’s campaign: ‘Yes, she can’

The extensive fallout from the rape of then Liberal staffer Brittany Higgins in a ministerial office continues to reverberate through both the legal and political systems, long after that fateful night in Parliament House in 2019.

Australia’s defamation laws historically favour reputation over freedom of speech, and our politicians aren’t shy from using them.

Western Australia Senator Linda Reynolds is already embroiled in a bruising defamation fight against her former staffer Brittany Higgins. Now, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton is reportedly considering suing independent MP Zali Steggall after she told him to “stop being racist”.

Peter Dutton has no record of race-based language. Well, except when it comes to Africans. And Lebanese Muslims. And China. And South Africa. And Palestine. But apart from that, nothing.

Anthony Albanese has defended the government's approach to issuing visas to Palestinians, accusing the opposition of confecting outrage on the issue.