Senate report calls for royal commission-like judicial inquiry into media diversity

A parliamentary inquiry into media diversity has backed former prime minister Kevin Rudd’s calls for a broader probe into the ...
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Senate Committee signs off on Australia’s education reform Bill

Australia’s Education and Employment Senate Committee has recommended that the Education Legislation Amendment (Integrity and Other Measures) Bill 2025 – a wide-ranging package of education reforms – ...
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Australian Senate universities report covers up Labor’s onslaught on tertiary education

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 ...

Is Australian democracy eroding?

Across the world, concern about democratic backsliding – the erosion of democratic institutions and civil liberties – is growing. It has become a live issue even in established systems, where erosion ...

Senate inquiry launched into Labor’s controversial CGT reforms

Labor’s controversial CGT reforms will face a Senate inquiry as startups, investors and business groups escalate criticism of ...

Senate Estimates committee told Attorney-General approved Ben Roberts-Smith war crimes prosecution faster than ISIS brides

A Senate Estimates Committee has been told Australia’s Attorney-General signed off on the prosecution of decorated war ...