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Senator Michaelia Cash will present a bill next week on MP staffing allocations.

‘Acting like a medieval king’: PM faces multiparty push on staffing

Parties across the political spectrum are planning to back a Coalition plan to make decisions on MP staffing allocations independent of politics.

  • Brittany Busch

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NSW Labor MLC Adam Searle is calling for the end of public service wage caps

The former Labor MP in the midst of the Liverpool Council meltdown

Adam Searle was ousted from Labor’s upper house ticket before the last state election. Now he’s helping a Liberal in need.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook
Drew Hutton was key to the formation of the Queensland Greens, Australian Greens and the anti-fracking Lock the Gate Alliance.

‘Authoritarian, aggressive, unlikeable’: Greens co-founder on his party

Following his expulsion over comments on transgender rights, the co-founder of the Australian Greens claims dozens have been expelled for speaking their mind.

  • Nick Newling
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition leader Sussan Ley.

Political enemies join parliament’s first-day love-in. Day two will be a different story

For just one day, love and homage to democracy were the central rituals as the 48th parliament opened.

  • Tony Wright
Drew Hutton (front), pictured with Friends of the Earth campaigner Cam Walker in 2013.

Booted from party, Greens co-founder vows to fight on

The Greens co-founder booted from the party on the weekend has hit back, accusing the organisation of becoming “too weird and unlikeable” for electoral success and urging the federal leader to intervene.

  • Cameron Atfield
A dog sits outside a polling station in London during the last UK election. Just over 48 million people were eligible to cast a ballot, while there are about 1.6 million 16 and 17-year-olds.

Could Australia follow UK’s ‘shock’ move to lower voting age to 16?

The UK’s proposed changes are designed to boost participation and trust in the electoral system, but opinion is split over whether under 18s should – or would – cast ballots.

  • Brittany Busch
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Hannah Thomas, a former Greens candidate, suffered a serious injury to her eye after police broke up a protest in Sydney’s south-west on Friday.

‘Questions of excessive force’: Major escalation in Hannah Thomas arrest probe

The former Greens candidate suffered a serious eye injury when police broke up a protest in Sydney’s south-west.

  • Perry Duffin and Michael McGowan
Multiple sources have said former Greens candidate Hannah Thomas suffered a serious eye injury when she was punched by a police officer during a protest in June.

‘She was punched’: Police accused of ‘gratuitous brutality’ against Hannah Thomas

Lawyers for the former Greens candidate are preparing to launch civil action against the NSW Police.

  • Michael McGowan and Kate McClymont
Former Greens candidate Hannah Thomas has been warned she will likely never regain full vision in her right eye after an injury she suffered when police broke up an anti-Israel protest last month.

Hannah Thomas warned to ‘prepare for worst’ after serious eye injury

The former Greens candidate has been warned she is unlikely to ever regain full vision in her eye after suffering an injury when police broke up an anti-Israel protest.

  • Michael McGowan
Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi is a frontrunner for the party’s leadership.

Mehreen Faruqi keeping mum after offloading landholding in Lahore

The Greens deputy leader has quietly sold off a 500-square-metre parcel of land in Pakistan.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook

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