The Latest Breaking News from Tony Burke

Calls for ALP to support a ceasefire grow as rank and file members quit and migrant communities in heartland seats threaten to turn away

Tony Burke refuses to guarantee house vote on separate bills in move Pocock calls ‘extraordinary’

First responders with post-traumatic stress disorder and workers facing domestic violence may soon have greater protections, with laws closer to passing.

The political parties have the same idea on redrawing the electoral map: eliminating their opponents with surgical precision. Thank goodness for the AEC

The failure of the Voice referendum appeared to confirm Australians broadly reject propositions they believe to be characterised by divisiveness. There are few geopolitical circumstances more polarising than the drastic flaring of conflict between Israel and Hamas militants in Gaza.

Opposition leader says government ‘squibbed’ key United Nations vote, but trade minister says his comments are not ‘helpful at this time’

American and Iranian officials trade warnings amid the Israel-Hamas war

Tony Burke says governments should act ‘as soon as possible for people to be safe’

Senior Labor minister and western Sydney MP supports Penny Wong’s call for humanitarian ‘pause’ and notes Israeli minister’s use of term ‘human animals’

Workplace health and safety ministers will determine later this year whether to ban engineered stone, after recommendations to do so by the watchdog.

All of this is bad enough without one side of politics misrepresenting the Australian government’s response, making unreasonable demands and trying to score points