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Senior figures including shadow attorney general say preselection contests ‘level the playing field’ for women, but others label proposal a ‘distraction’ from discussion of quotas

The opposition leader has met with senior Chinese community leaders to hear how the party can rebuild trust with the diaspora following its election loss.

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Peter Dutton has chosen a dark horse in naming David Coleman for the key shadow foreign affairs portfolio, in a reshuffle that also seeks to boost the opposition’s credentials with women.

Long-awaited shadow cabinet reshuffle has David Coleman taking over foreign affairs portfolio from outgoing Simon Birmingham

If the 1999 republic referendum got crushed by an “unholy alliance” between monarchists and direct electionists, the Voice referendum was repudiated by an unprincipled union between the separatist Indigenous left and the reactionary right – though the right’s opposition was more electorally impactful.

Adam Bandt hits back, saying he will not be lectured about peace by someone who backs invasion

Politicians are blaming each other for stoking community tensions over the war in Gaza as the Albanese government mulls a request for aid.

An opposition MP has put forward laws to set up an inquiry examining rising levels of anti-Semitism at universities.