An Australian far-right lawmaker wore a burqa to Parliament on Monday, drawing outrage from fellow senators who accused her of racism. Sen. Pauline Hanson appeared in the burqa, a full-face covering ...

She won office running under Jacqui Lambie's banner, but brand-new Labor recruit Tasmanian senator Tammy Tyrrell says she ...

SYDNEY, Nov 25 (Reuters) - Australia's Senate on Tuesday suspended far-right Senator Pauline Hanson for seven sitting days after she wore a burqa to Parliament as a political prop in her campaign to ...

(Corrects to change typographical error in word "risk" in paragraph 13) SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australian far-right Senator Pauline Hanson wore a burqa to Parliament on ...

The Liberal Party has been accused of “letting the cat out of the bag” after its deputy leader was quizzed on how Angus ...

A clutch of senators who offered tobacco giant Philip Morris a private hearing at a parliamentary committee have been accused ...

When an Australian Senate committee released its final report of a year-long inquiry into university governance this month, the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) hailed it as marking “a new ...

Buttons have been pressed to electronically distribute preferences for the Senate in Victoria, the ACT, Queensland and Western Australia. Labor gained a seat from the Liberals in Victoria, with the ...

CANBERRA, Nov 2 (Reuters) - Australia's upper house Senate will vote on carbon emissions laws on November 8, paving the way for the world's most comprehensive emissions trading system outside Europe, ...

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