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Why freezing out Fatima Payman wouldn’t look good for Labor

Payman is not the first young woman of colour to have crossed the establishment and sparked fury. And there will be more like her in the party’s future.

Riding chill streets, listening for the lessons of Zen on a motorcycle

The first rule of riding a motorcycle is look where you want to go. Could it be a metaphor for life?

Tony Wright
Tony Wright

Associate editor and special writer

Assange, hero or villain? Either way, Albanese is keeping his distance

Now Julian Assange is free, a huge divide remains about whether he is right to insist on the unfettered release of information.

David Crowe
David Crowe

Chief political correspondent

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Labor senator Fatima Payman.

Why freezing out Fatima Payman wouldn’t look good for Labor

Payman is not the first young woman of colour to have crossed the establishment and sparked fury. And there will be more like her in the party’s future.

  • by Natassia Chrysanthos
Portrait of Shadow Minister for Veterans’ Affairs Barnaby Joyce, at Parliament House in Canberra.

Barnaby Joyce quits alcohol, loses 15kg after infamous night he barely remembers

Colleagues say the firebrand has never been sharper having lost 15 kilograms, partly through runs around Canberra’s northern suburbs and playing touch footy.

  • by Paul Sakkal

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