Tag: Tanya Plibersek

We'll give you a hint; she sits on a front bench in Canberra and wants you to enrol to vote.

The federal opposition is critical over reports that Iran has summoned the Australian envoy to complain about the death of an Iranian asylum seeker in PNG.

Labor’s shadow frontbench includes 11 women and six new faces as Opposition Leader Bill Shorten seek a new direction for his party.

Labor will need Tanya Plibersek’s skills as a communicator and her popularity with colleagues as it tries to unite after a devastating election loss.

Bill Shorten may have the majority support of the ALP caucus for the party's federal leadership but he's going to have a tough fight winning over NSW rank and file members.

Anthony Albanese and Bill Shorten have begun their leadership pitch to Labor members voting in a historic ballot.

Tony Abbott’s government has been accused of pettiness after incoming foreign minister Julie Bishop axed a plum posting as Australia's next consul-general in New York for former Labor premier Steve Bracks.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's recently revealed reforms to asylum seeker policy would send gay refugees to Papua New Guinea despite the country's strict laws against homosexuality.

The addition of abortion drug RU486 to Australia’s Pharmaceutical Benefit Scheme has been criticised by pro-life supporters claiming that it was an example of the government abusing its power to pursue its own agenda.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has promoted many of his key leadership backers with his new look frontbench.

Health Minister Tanya Plibersek has welcomed the Irish government’s move to introduce laws for cigarettes to be sold in plain packaging.

POLL POSITION | Girl power has taken hold of the land Down Under where Australian "women now occupy the highest offices in the land". But does this gender shift really reflect what is happening in society?