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Kim Carr

August 2023

Firefighters union chief Peter Marshall (pictured) has the backing of former Labor powerbroker Kim Carr.

Labor keeps Left-Right balance as ‘union coalition’ comes up short

A maverick independent unionist backed by “a coalition of the unwanted” has fallen short of disrupting the Labor factional balance on the powerful national executive.

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  • David Marin-Guzman

June 2023

Labor’s internal dissent over AUKUS is building

The Albanese government’s embrace of the AUKUS security pact faces a second internal rejection in as many weeks with the Victorian branch of the Labor Party poised to condemn it on multiple fronts.

  • Phillip Coorey

April 2022

Labor’s Kim Carr has done just about everything one can in the Senate. Given he was elected before 2004, that adds up to a rather hefty pension.

Ousted parliamentary fathers consoled by pension scheme

Labor’s Kim Carr and the Liberals’ Kevin Andrews have one thing factional machinations can never take away from them: their vintage parliamentary pensions.

  • Myriam Robin

March 2022

Dave Sharma and Julie Bishop at the launch of his re-election campaign.

Spending in this budget will certainly be targeted – at re-election

The budget is supposed to be about the long-term future. It’s really about the government’s short-term future. Labor will back it – and add spending of its own.

  • Jennifer Hewett
Kim Carr says the transformational nature of science and education are what drove him in politics.

Kim Carr’s ‘singular’ contribution lauded as he exits stage left

Kim Carr’s prodigious intellect and curiosity was rare among politicians and the research and higher education sectors were the beneficiaries.

  • Julie Hare
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Veteran Labor senator Kim Carr has called it quits

Labor’s Kim Carr retires, Libs sort out NSW factional mess

Veteran Labor senator and factional warrior Kim Carr has announced his retirement after losing the fight to stay in Parliament,

  • Phillip Coorey

December 2021

Labor communications spokeswoman Michelle Rowland.

Labor divided on media diversity royal commission

A divided a Labor Party will not back former prime minister Kevin Rudd’s calls for a royal commission into media ownership in Australia, despite a Senate inquiry recommending the move.

  • Miranda Ward

October 2021

Administrative Appeals Tribunal registrar Sian Leathem tried to stop the Senate’s request for the benchmark data of 35 AAT members.

Liberal-aligned AAT members’ productivity laid bare

The disclosure inevitable though it was has caused no small amount of alarm at the Administrative Affairs Tribunal.

  • Myriam Robin
An oil skimming boat works to clean a spill in the waters off Huntington Beach, California.

‘Catastrophic’ California oil spill kills fish, damages wetlands

The US Coast Guard announced an around-the-clock investigation into how the spill occurred.

  • Gene Blevins and Jonathan Allen

June 2021

Kim Carr

Personal files on researchers at ARC smacks of ‘McCarthyism’: Carr

The Australian Research Council is keeping files on individual researchers which could threaten their careers, Senate estimates heard.

  • Julie Hare

June 2020

NSW Labor leader Jodi McKay with Granville MP Julia Finn, who has quit shadow cabinet after being named in a branch stacking investigation. She resigned on Friday but maintained her innocence.

Labor scandal spreads as NSW MP quits

More Labor heads are set to roll after Victoria's industrial branch-stacking scandal spread to NSW and Labor MP Julia Finn quit the NSW shadow cabinet.

  • Patrick Durkin, David Marin-Guzman and Tom McIlroy
Editorial cartoon for 18 June 2020 from David Rowe. Gallery Thursday 18th June 2020 ALP, Anthony Albanese, Daniel Andrews, branch stacking, Labor, Adem Semyurek

How to wreck a political party: Victorian Labor's crazy factions

The Victorian branch stacking debacle shows that old fashioned political machines have been replaced by warring tribes that undermine good government.

  • Aaron Patrick
The factional situation in Victoria has long been so impenetrable that you can only liken it to the Judean People's Front versus the People's Front of Judea.

Albanese makes a virtue out of a crisis

Adem Somyurek showed the error of trying to have it all in factional politics. But Victoria could now be easier for Albo to handle.

  • Phillip Coorey
Adem Somyurek was elected to the Victorian upper house in 2002 with the support of the shop assistants' union.

'Everyone knew what was going on'

Adem Somyurek was a factional operator of such prodigious drive and ambition that he almost single-handedly took control of the Victorian Labor Party.

  • Aaron Patrick and David Marin-Guzman

November 2019

China Mengnui Dairy will own leading brands such as Dairy Farmers and Pura milk after acquiring Lion Dairy & Drinks.

Farmers want checks on Mengniu's Lion Dairy bid

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg is under pressure from dairy farmers and regional politicians to closely scrutinise the $600 million sale of one of Australia's largest milk processors,  Lion Dairy & Drinks, to China Mengniu Dairy Company.

  • Sue Mitchell and John Kehoe
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May 2019

Senator Kim Carr said Labor will not return to the frontbench.

Labor powerbroker Kim Carr ends two decade frontbench career

One of the loudest advocates for Australia's manufacturing sector is set to step back from frontline politics.

  • Tom McIlroy

Business is war-gaming a Shorten government

As corporate leaders try to understand how a Shorten government would operate, Labor leaders are eager to assure businesses their doors will be open.

  • Aaron Patrick

April 2019

Senator Kim Carr said Labor will not return to the Turnbull-era fawning over tech start-ups.

Labor flags start-up R&D reprieve

Shadow Innovation Minister Kim Carr said Labor will help start-ups that lost R&D incentives, but will avoid Malcolm Turnbull's tech-centric innovation strategy.

  • Paul Smith

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