The Latest Breaking News from Labor

Labor is unlikely to win more than 46 of the 93 lower house seats at Saturday’s New South Wales state election, which would be short of the 47 required for a majority. The Coalition is likely to win 35 seats, the Greens three and independents nine. Depending on the outcome…

NSW Premier Chris Minns says turning around the performance of schools and hospitals in NSW remains his top priority, as new research reveals one million

Finance minister Bezalel Smotrich provoked outrage by saying there was ‘no such thing as a Palestinian people’

Dave Layzell holds off Labor's Peree Watson to retain the ultra-marginal seat of Upper Hunter for the Coalition.

Australia’s history of women and political rights is, to put it mildly, chequered. It enfranchised (white) women very early, in 1902. And it was the first country to give them the vote combined with the right to stand for parliament.

When Paul Walshe sinks his teeth into a project, he never lets go - and the Queanebeyan community is all the better for it

NSW Labor is likely to need the crossbench if its going to pass its legislation through the lower house. These are the people they’ll have court, and what they’ll be expecting in return.

An all-women Greens team and a host of newly elected Labor and Liberal MPs means the NSW parliament has almost reached gender parity.

The government had its first major legislative defeat since taking power as the Senate crossbench dashed its hopes of passing the affordable housing fund.

Victoria’s opposition accuses premier of snubbing education leaders while union says absence of journalists on China trip is ‘disturbing’

Coalition seizes on Michele O’Neil’s comments, claiming they send a ‘confusing signal’ on $368bn nuclear submarine acquisition