Joe Hockey’s “condescending” comments to two young journalists this week highlighted the general discrimination faced by young people in politics today, according to Greens Party representatives.
Federal Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce has been embroiled in the Rhinehart legal battle after emails from the Minister allegedly pressuring Gina Rhinehart’s daughter to drop the case came to light.
Marriage inequality is driving Australian money overseas with gay and lesbian business owners moving abroad, according Sydney Gay and Lesbian Business Association (SGLBA) president Mark Haines.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott (above) has dismissed the possibility of Australia joining Indonesia and Malaysia in giving shelter to Burmese Rohingya Muslim refugees rescued off the coast of Thailand last week.
The Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse today heard of the terrors Gordon Hill (above) endured as a child at St Joseph’s Home, Ballarat, in the 1940s.