GOVERNMENT BREAKS 17 YEARS OF CONVENTION – SCRAPS SENATE ESTIMATES HEARINGS CONSIDERING INDIGENOUS MATTERS

This afternoon in the Senate, the Albanese Labor Government – backed by the Greens – voted against reinstating two critical standalone Estimates hearings that had been scheduled for Monday, 13 October 2025: the Cross Portfolio Indigenous Matters and the Cross Portfolio Murray-Darling Basin Plan hearings.
Transcript – 2CC Breakfast with Stephen Cenatiempo – 8 July

Topics: NAIDOC Week, Closing the Gap, Kumanjayi Walker Coroner’s Report
Transcript – ABC RN Breakfast with Kylie Morris – 8 July

Topics: Kumanjayi Walker Coroner’s Report; Yoorrook Justice Commission Report; Quotas
Ley Shadow Ministry

Opposition Leader Sussan Ley today announced her new Shadow Ministry with Nationals Leader David Littleproud.
Cost of living still hurts

Federal Senator Kerrynne Liddle was in Whyalla last week to visit local organisations and businesses struggling with the cost of living crisis.
IMPROVING COMMUNITY SAFETY IN ALICE SPRINGS AND THE NORTHERN TERRITORY
LABOR MISMANAGEMENT PUTS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIMS AT RISK KATY GALLAGHER MUST CLEAN UP BILL SHORTEN’S MESS
The Prime Minister’s visit to the Northern Territory

The Prime Minister’s wrong priorities are on full display when he hasn’t included visiting locals in Katherine or Alice Springs to see first-hand what his government’s handywork hasdone to the Northern Territory.
Call for transparency on family violence funding

Every parliamentarian stands united in ending the scourge of family violence.
Making Australians safer needs action – not announcements

AS 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence ends, Australians enter one of the most dangerous times of the year: the festive season.