Tag: Labor Party

A leadership showdown between Prime Minister Julia Gillard and her detractors could be put off until after Labor's landmark schools funding legislation passes federal parliament.

Feminists fear a massive Labor defeat in September will set back their cause for up to a decade.

Federal Education Minister Peter Garrett has been banned from setting foot on the campus of any Queensland school, with the Newman Government claiming that it was taking action to prevent the state’s educational facilities from becoming “the venue for the Gonski media roadshow.”

Leadership speculation in the federal government has put the country at risk of an early election after Independent MP Tony Windsor claimed that the deal he made in 2010 to support the Gillard Government would be “null and void” if the Australian Labor Party were to change leaders before the ...

Labor would attract almost seven per cent more votes on a two-party preferred basis if Kevin Rudd was prime minister, a poll says.

Former Labor leader Kevin Rudd says he is available to campaign in seats across the country, but is not a candidate for the leadership.

Communications minister Stephen Conroy says he’ll be meeting with stakeholders in Canberra on Thursday to discuss the latest asbestos scare in communities living around the national broadband network (NBN) work sites.

Former cabinet minister Joel Fitzgibbon has openly ridiculed Labor HQ in the wake of opinion polls showing the government heading for a massive defeat, whilst backbencher Graham Perrett likened the situation ahead of the 14 September federal election to an Indiana Jones movie.

South Australia will transition to the full national disability insurance scheme, covering all people with a disability by mid-2019.

Between 11am and 11pm (AEDT) on Thursday the hashtags #spill, #Auspol, #qt, and the names and handles of key figures in federal politics generated more than 247,000 tweets, Twitter says. Here's our pick of the best.