Federal Politics
A Greens senator says social media giants need to be regulated by laws after proving themselves to be “secretive and dishonest”. Senior ministers have quickly doused fresh suggestions Labor will ...
Coalition to push ahead with challenge to Lidia Thorpe's eligibility to sit in Senate despite Professor Anne Twomey's scepticism
The federal opposition is pushing ahead with plans to challenge Lidia Thorpe’s eligibility to sit in Parliament, despite a ...
Australia news live: lawyer says Thorpe’s ‘hairs’ oath to Queen doesn’t invalidate her position; senator insists ‘no one can kick me out’
The letter from Thorpe to the king, dated 7 March 2023, stated that a war was declared on First Nations people 200 years ago ...
Australian senator who confronted King Charles III says she won’t be ‘shut down’
Sen. Lidia Thorpe’s comments followed an encounter with the monarch at a parliamentary reception Monday where she was ...
King Charles’s Australia Visit Punctuated by Protests of “You Are Not Our King”
Aboriginal senator Lidia Thorpe protested against the royal’s Commonwealth visit during a parliamentary reception.
Australian politician who heckled the King swore allegiance to Queen’s ‘hairs’
The Aboriginal Australian politician who harangued King Charles III on Monday has denied accusations that she breached her ...
Indigenous Australian senator Lidia Thorpe intensifies her criticism of King Charles III
An Indigenous Australian senator intensified her criticism of King Charles III on Wednesday, again accusing the British monarch of complicity in the "genocide" against Australia's First Peoples and ...