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Jade GailbergerFederal politics reporter

Jade Gailberger is a political reporter based in the Canberra Press Gallery. She has reported on federal politics since 2018, and has covered several state and federal elections. Jade’s previous roles include city editor and environment reporter at The Advertiser.

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Victoria

12/05/22 Liberal MP Katie Allen campaigning at Malvern town hall in the federal seat of Higgins. Aaron Francis / The Australian

Libs dump candidate for Melbourne seat, bring back ex-MP

The Victorian Liberal Party has dumped its Chisholm candidate in favour of former MP Katie Allen, after the historic seat of Higgins was abolished in a redraw of electoral boundaries.

Victoria

Melbourne Airport new third runway proposal will result in more noise and flights overhead for residents north and south of the airport. Flights in and out of Melbourne will be significantly changed to send more planes over the suburbs north and south of Tullamarine when a third runway is completed. Melbourne Airport on Monday released full details for public consultation of its third runway proposal along with a 20-year master plan. Supplied

It won’t cost taxpayers a cent, so why hasn’t the third runway at Melb Airport been approved?

Melbourne Airport has been waiting for the federal government to sign off on its third runway project, with the transport minister accused of sitting on the decision for 18 months.

updatedVictoria

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA. NewsWire Photos. SEPTEMBER 5, 2024. Former federal Labor leader Bill Shorten announces his retirement in at Parliament House in Canberra. Chloe (wife) and Clementine (daughter). Picture: NewsWire. Picture: NewsWire

Bill Shorten calls time on political career, announces next move

Former Labor leader and NDIS Minister Bill Shorten, who twice bid to become the nation’s prime minister, has announced his retirement from politics to take up a lucrative new university role.

Victoria

Opposition leader Anthony Albanese (back) and Labour candidate for Higgins Dr Michelle Ananda-Rajah arrive at a Polling station during election day in Carnegie, Melbourne, Australia on May 21, 2022. - Polls opened in Australia's federal election May 21, 2022 , with Prime Minister Scott Morrison fighting for another three-year term that would extend a decade of conservative rule. (Photo by Wendell Teodoro / AFP)

A Victorian electorate has just been axed. Here’s what it means

The Australian Electoral Commission has released its latest changes to Victoria’s federal electoral boundaries, abolishing one electorate and shaking up several others. See all the changes.

News

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese wears a floral head piece while signing agreements with Prime Minister of Tuvalu Feleti Teo for the Australia-Tuvalu Falepili Union to come into force at the 53rd Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting in Nuku'alofa, Tonga, Wednesday, August 28, 2024. Leaders from Pacific Island nations are gathering in Tonga for the 53rd Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

‘Go us halvies’: Albo caught in hot mic moment

Anthony Albanese has been caught in a hot mic moment with a US heavyweight on the sidelines of the Pacific Islands Forum.

ExclusiveVictoria

The Hon Pat Conroy, MP, Minister for International Development and the Pacific attended the 52nd Pacific Island forum Leaders Meeting (PIFLM52, in Rarotonga Cook Islands from 6-10 November 2023. The theme of the conference was Ã¢â¬ÂOur Voices, Our Choices, Our Pacific Way: Promote, Partner, ProsperÃ¢â¬Â and was attended by leaders across the Pacific, including Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese. . Picture: DFAT

Pacific Islanders in visa lottery scramble to call Australia home

More than 56,000 Pacific and Timor-Leste residents have scrambled to nab one of 3000 visas to call Australia home in a new lottery system.

Victoria

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - OCTOBER 14, 2022: General generic editorial stock image of Jetstar aircraft at Sydney Domestic Airport. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Nicholas Eagar

Airlines targeted for poor customer service in new scheme

The federal government is vowing to strengthen the rights of airline passengers, including people with a disability, through a raft of reforms.

NSW

Trade and construction workers take part in a protest march in Sydney, Thursday, September 6, 2018. Thousands of workers rallied demanding the abolition of the Morrison Government's Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC). (AAP Image/Dan Himbrechts) NO ARCHIVING

NSW workers march on parliament after union gutted

Members and supporters of the CFMEU are set to down tools and rally as part of a nationwide protest.

Victoria

Tuesday’s march is in solidarity with the CFMEU after the sacking of 270 staff. Picture: Aaron Francis

Thousands of Vic workers to down tools in solidarity with CFMEU

A coalition of unions representing more than 85,000 workers will tell their members to halt work on Victoria’s major infrastructure projects and join in a march.

National

The police mistake that has ‘terrible consequences’

Australia’s top expert on domestic violence has handed down a daming report about the impact the abuse is having, and how some frontline services are “causing harm”.

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