Senators


A-X of new senators

Read it and weep as the youth brigade take over, writes Bernard Keane.

Perhaps all the Nationals should become family men now

It is a wonderful sight to behold how politicians become so concerned for family life when they lose access to their white cars and all the other lurks and perks of ministerial office, writes Richard Farmer.

Why Family First can’t help Labor in the Senate

It’s a story that won’t go away: the idea that the ALP might again do a preference deal with the Assemblies of God party, Family First, despite the angst that it brought them in 2004.