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Jacqui Lambie in the Senate in November.

The best – and worst – of 2024: My list isn’t objective, but that’s the fun of it

Here are my top 10, for better or worse.

  • George Brandis

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Exclusive polling reveals the most and least popular politicians in Australia.

The pollies we like to like – and the ones we love to hate

Voters have deemed Jacqui Lambie to be the nation’s most likeable federal politician, after a year in which many others have taken a popularity hit.

  • David Crowe
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese arrives for a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra on Friday.

Albanese’s small-target strategy has given rise to a dysfunctional parliament

A race to secure parliamentary assent for a range of measures before the holiday season is hardly new. But there were troubling aspects of this week’s events in Parliament House.

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was pleased with the progress made in the final sitting week of 2024.

World-first social media ban for the young passes in rush of bills

The government managed to rush through a range of laws, as Peter Dutton challenged Anthony Albanese to call an election.

  • David Crowe and Paul Sakkal
Communications Minister Michelle Rowland put the misinformation bill to parliament in September after a year of dispute over draft changes.

‘Deeply flawed’: Truth bill on the brink in Senate showdown

Key senators are blockading a divisive government plan to crack down on lies in major public debates.

  • David Crowe
Sophie Ray, Mick Bainbridge

North Bondi RSL calls for board to be removed

North Bondi RSL’s members initially supported NSW RSL president Mick Bainbridge. Like them, and unlike most other members of RSL branches, he was young and he had seen combat. Now they want him to resign.

  • Julie Power
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RSL NSW president Mick Bainbridge was a founding partner of the veteran-friendly law firm Operational Legal Australia.

‘Unethical cowboys’: RSL NSW president accused of ‘exploiting’ veterans by overcharging for legal advice

Independent senator Jacqui Lambie said RSL NSW had taken no action against lawyers who overcharged veterans for legal advice because some of the worst culprits sat on its board.

  • Harriet Alexander
Former Defence Force chief Angus Campbell has said he did not receive any reports of wrongdoing or alleged war crimes during his time as the commander of Australian forces in the Middle East. 

‘Moral accountability demands more’: Calls for top brass to hand back medals

Former Defence Force chief Angus Campbell and other leading military figures are facing growing calls to surrender their military honours after more junior Afghanistan war commanders were stripped of theirs.

  • Matthew Knott
“I take my job seriously. I’m not here to just have a cruisy ride for the next four years,” Fatima Payman says.

‘Payman is correct’: Senators call for parliament staff overhaul

Crossbench senators who would not usually agree on anything are united. They want the prime minister stripped of the power to decide MPs’ staffing levels.

  • Matthew Knott
The fact that Lette had just been talking about her first book, Puberty Blues, which is full of molls and Chiko Rolls, meant it could have been passed off as clever satire.

I saw a woman call Kathy Lette a moll. It could have been me

This literary fan had suffered an unfortunate affliction known as a spoonerism, where the beginnings of two words are transposed.

  • Jo Pybus

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