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No SA senate seat for One Nation as Lib makes history
One Nation has fallen short in its bid to snare South Australia’s final senate seat, with Liberal Kerrynne Liddle instead becoming the state’s first Indigenous federal parliamentarian.
One Nation has fallen short in its bid to snare South Australia’s final senate seat, with Liberal Kerrynne Liddle instead becoming the state’s first Indigenous federal parliamentarian.
UPDATED | The SA senator who replaced Nick Xenophon – and is now running against him to retain his seat – has launched an extraordinary attack on his former boss, using parliamentary privilege to slam the lawyer for representing Chinese tech giant Huawei and likening it to doing PR for German arms manufacturers under the Nazi regime.
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A Senate inquiry has called for a royal commission-like probe into the the concentration of media ownership in Australia and whether a new independent press regulator is needed – but the committee’s Liberal MP deputy chair has branded it a “shameless political stunt”.
A Federal Government move to change legislation for class actions and litigation funding will make it harder for claimants to seek justice, argues Nyunggai Warren Mundine.
The convenor of the SA Labor Party’s Left faction is set to enter federal parliament as the party’s choice to replace the late senator Alex Gallacher, who died last week after battling lung cancer.
UPDATED 5PM | Unions have South Australia’s Centre Alliance in their sights, with an ACTU poll suggesting falling support for federal Rebekha Sharkie in her Adelaide Hills seat of Mayo – as she today took aim at her senate colleague over his support for the Government’s contentious workplace reforms.
Legislation to set up a national nuclear waste storage site on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula is being debated by federal parliament. Margaret Beavis argues that both the site selection process and storage plans for long-lived intermediate nuclear waste are unacceptable.