Australia

The Australian Labor Party is built on a complex decision-making structure, which is divided along state and factional allegiances between left and right. Here’s everything you need to know.

We take you inside the opaque and complex decision-making structure of the Labor Party, which is divided along state and factional allegiances between left and right. 

The Prime Minister has invited the new pope, Leo XIV, to visit Australia and lauded his election as a momentous day for Catholics around the world.

After almost a week of increasingly bitter campaigning in the shadows, acting Liberal leader Sussan Ley and shadow treasurer Angus Taylor publicly declared their candidacies for the leadership on Friday.

Women will outnumber men as an enlarged Labor caucus gathers for the first time since claiming a dominant federal election victory.

Jim Chalmers’ Division 296 policy received relatively little attention during the election campaign. But finance experts are warning that it could upend Australia’s investment landscape.

Liberal Party acting leader Sussan Ley was excluded from important campaign decisions by former leader Peter Dutton during and before the election, according to her supporters.

‘We are just coasting along, she’ll be right, that sort of attitude and all the evidence is starting to show without exaggerating that she won’t be alright.’

The media company and its board are still refusing to answer serious questions over a massive hush money payment to a witness in the Ben Roberts-Smith war crimes case that has plunged the network into crisis.

Netball Australia is facing growing pressure over its handling of bullying allegations, with a former player claiming key witnesses to the ‘appalling conduct’ were overlooked and proper procedures were neglected.

Newly elected Labor MPs will descend on Canberra on Thursday for factional negotiations ahead of a major caucus meeting on Friday to determine the future make-up of the Cabinet and top government roles. 

Catherine West has refused to say if she signed off on a $700,000 cheque to silence a witness in the Roberts-Smith case, running away from questions about the scandal engulfing the media company.

While the Prime Minister said he wanted to wait for the full election results before finalising his post-poll Cabinet, the party’s left and right factions are already looking at two vacant portfolios.