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From a high of 16 MPs after the 22 election, the party has lost its leader and a handful of MPs to have just 11 in the new parliament.

Betrayal over breakfast: How Dorinda Cox’s shock defection was a year in the making

Hours before Dorinda Cox put herself forward to be deputy leader of the Greens, she was spotted having breakfast with unusual dining companions.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos and James Massola

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Dorinda Cox said she had lost confidence in the Greens and felt her values aligned with Labor.

Greens call on defector to do ‘honourable thing’ and resign

The comment is an escalation of the party’s criticism of its former senator, Dorinda Cox, who it had previously wished well.

  • Paul Sakkal
Alan Stockdale raised eyebrows at the NSW Liberal Women’s Council meeting.

‘Nobody cares about the Liberals’: Party elder’s message to women

Alan Stockdale, one of a trio of external administrators running the NSW Liberals, angered female members during a four-hour Zoom briefing on Tuesday night.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook
The exterior of the block at 16 St Georges Rd, Toorak, taken in 2019.

The most controversial vacant block in Melbourne is up for sale for north of $40 million

The historic and highly controversial Toorak property covering more than 4000 square metres is firmly back in play.

  • Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
Dorinda Cox was highly critical Labor in her application to join the Greens.

Defecting senator torched ‘patronising’ Labor in leaked Greens application

A leaked document from Dorinda Cox’s application to become a senator for the Greens shows she was highly critical of Labor, which she has now rejoined.

  • James Massola
Anthony Albanese and Greens defector Dorinda Cox.

Dorinda Cox’s party switch highlights the defect in political defections

If a politician jumps ship midterm, voters are more than entitled to look askance at the move, even to feel outraged.

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Dorinda Cox.

Dorinda’s digital detox

Some of the senator’s most recent posts were bagging the Labor government’s decision to approve the extension of energy giant Woodside’s North West Shelf gas project until 2070.

  • Gemma Grant and Kishor Napier-Raman
Anthony Albanese and Greens defector Dorinda Cox.

Albanese is riding high. Why did he take on a senator with so much baggage?

Dorinda Cox’s move to the government benches is a big risk for Anthony Albanese and Labor, and it could go very wrong.

  • James Massola
Greens-turned Labor senator Dorinda Cox and One Nation leader Pauline Hanson.

Greens defector’s use of slur against fellow senator exposed in text leak

The leak from a party source comes as Greens leader Larissa Waters also wrote of Cox’s “betrayal” in an email to members, in a sign of escalating tensions between the minor party and the government.

  • Paul Sakkal, James Massola and Olivia Ireland
Australia has a long, and frequently unhappy, history of political defections.

Call that a political defection? Here are the deserters for the ages

Political defections are in the news – Jacinta Price and Dorinda Cox the most recent examples – but the recent crop pale in comparison to the grand champions of political absconding.

  • Tony Wright

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