The voting behaviour of senators on February 6 was bizarre to say the least. Labor’s Criminal Code Amendment (Hate Crimes) Bill 2025 passed both houses in what can only be described as a whirlwind.

The Coalition is facing extensive backlash following its decision to embrace Labor’s new hate speech laws. Despite having ...

General Mark Dreyfus while the Jewish MP speaks about antisemitism and his recent visit to Auschwitz for Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Rio Tinto (down 1.2 per cent), BHP (down 1 per cent) and Fortescue (1.5 per cent) deepened their losses at the end of ...

The new legislation, in which Albanese agreed to include draconian mandatory jail terms, is a serious threat to anti-genocide ...

The Senate confirmed Russell Vought as White House budget director on Thursday night, putting an official who has planned the ...

Terrorism and hate symbol offences will now carry a mandatory minimum sentence after the federal government passed new laws that are a departure from the Labor Party's national platform.

The battle to contain antisemitism in Australia finds both sides of politics embracing measures they would otherwise abhor.

People found guilty of displaying terror symbols or some terrorism offences will spend time in jail after amended hate speech laws passed parliament. The legislation, which cleared the Senate on ...

Firebrand independent senator Lidia Thorpe has defended a controversial Queensland University of Technology conference that featured a “Dutton’s Jew” cartoon and left a Jewish academic in tears.

ANALYSIS: Trump has finally bent the Senate to his will. And, as Eric Garcia writes, he has done it at the expense of ...

Lambie told the Senate a member of her staff regularly turned up late and painted her nails at her desk, then resigned and sued.