A senior political staffer to federal teal MP Monique Ryan has raised the stakes in her unfair dismissal claim after private talks broke down. The Kooyong MP’s chief of staff Sally Rugg will seek to add claims of “serious contraventions” of the Fair Work Act after mediation failed to resolve her legal dispute with Dr….

Many Indigenous Australians who disagree with the left’s proposed “Uluru Statement from the Heart” have been “ignored or bullied,” contrary to the narrative that the statement represents a consensus among Indigenous leaders, an Australian senator has warned. The Uluru Statement is a 2017 petition by a group of Aboriginal leaders who called for constitutional reform…

Six Australian Independent MPs that campaigned heavily on a climate change platform managed to raise $10 million (US$6.4 million) at the last federal election, according to figures from the country’s electoral oversight body. The so-called “teal” independents played a key role in dislodging the incumbent centre-right Liberal Party government in May after winning over inner-city…

Newly elected “teal” independent MP, Dr. Monique Ryan, has accused the Liberal Party’s Peter Dutton of “alienating” the People’s Republic of China and local Chinese-Australians because of his strong comments against Beijing’s aggression. She warned that Dutton as leader of the Liberal Party, would entrench such views within Australia’s main centre-right political party. Ryan made…

Newly elected “teal” independent MP, Dr. Monique Ryan, has accused the Liberal Party’s Peter Dutton of “alienating” the People’s Republic of China and local Chinese-Australians because of his strong comments against Beijing’s aggression. She warned that Dutton as leader of the Liberal Party, would entrench such views within Australia’s main centre-right political party. Ryan made…