NewsBite

Parliament House

Advertisement
Parents Mia Bannister (left), Robb Evans and Emma Mason with Communications Minister Anika Wells and Anthony Albanese at a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra on Wednesday.

Google cancels parliamentary lobbying concert at last minute after YouTube ban

Rock band The Rubens were scheduled to play for Google on Wednesday night, but the company pulled the show, saying it risked being disrespectful.

  • Olivia Ireland

Latest

Departing Labor staffers. Clockwise from top left: Lachlan McKenzie, Brigid Delaney, Katharine Murphy, Katie Connolly, Stela Todorovic, Lanai Scarr

Labor staffers could help change the nation. But there’s a reason they’re leaving

In the weeks since securing an election triumph, dozens of senior political staff with decades of experience have quit the Albanese government.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman and Nick Newling
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
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Jodie Haydon with friends he grew up with in what was then the working class suburb of Camperdown in inner Sydney.

‘None of us had been on an aeroplane’: Albanese’s old crew remembers

The group of friends who grew up with the future prime minister recall his humble origins, but also his teenage declaration that he would be a politician.

  • James Massola
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

Secretive Albanese government goes backward on transparency

Labor refused freedom of information requests in its first term more often than the Morrison government despite campaigning on a platform of integrity.

  • Paul Sakkal and Brittany Busch
Federal officers confront a masked man atop a police car outside Parliament House.

Pro-Palestine protesters disrupt opening of parliament

Seventeen pro-Palestine protesters were detained inside Parliament House after they managed to enter the building, and one woman was arrested outside.

  • Nick Newling and Brittany Busch
Advertisement
Mark Latham’s portrait, bottom right, will remain in Labor’s caucus room with text added below.

‘Can’t erase history’: Labor to keep Latham’s portrait in parliament

The federal party decided on Monday to add a note to its former leader’s image, saying he had been expelled from the party and that his actions conflicted with its values.

  • Brittany Busch
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
Abe Saffron dropped a bomb during secret testimony in Canberra.

Who killed Sydney heiress Juanita Nielsen? ‘Mr Sin’ points finger from the grave

For the first time in 33 years, Saffron’s evidence before an in-camera parliamentary inquiry can be revealed.

  • Peter Rees and Neil Mercer
Donald Trump held a big, beautiful parade in Iowa… the celebrations didn’t extend to US soil in Canberra though, where the US embassy was closed for July 4.

A big beautiful day for US diplomacy in Canberra? Under Trump, the doors are closed

July 4 was for many years a day for celebrating American style at the US embassy in Canberra. Not this year. There’s no ambassador, for starters.

  • Tony Wright

Original URL: https://www.smh.com.au/topic/parliament-house-act-e3x