Michelle Rowland
Labor split over renewed push for AI to be able to harvest Australian art
A rift has opened within the Albanese government over chasing global investment in artificial intelligence and a creative sector warning it is being asked to bankroll the technology.
- Rob Harris
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Chalmers’ razor gang eyes cuts to legal services for DV victims
Two years after the Albanese government pledged an extra $1 billion in funding to combat domestic violence, a program that helps victims navigate courts is under review.
- James Massola
International students locked out of in-person hearings for visa appeals
The Albanese government wants to speed up tribunal reviews after being swamped with almost 50,000 cases of students contesting their visa rejections.
- Natassia Chrysanthos
Michelle Rowland taps bureaucrat of Optus debacle fame as chief of staff
The attorney-general has decided James Chisholm, who held a senior leadership position in a department that could barely manage an email inbox, is the best man to run her office.
- John Buckley
The sports minister’s summer of no sport
Anika Wells has skipped every major sporting event this summer and stayed home in Brisbane after her expenses scandal.
- James Massola
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Attorney-general tells imams new hate speech laws won’t silence criticisms of foreign governments
Attorney-General Michelle Rowland has written to the Australian National Imams Council to tamp down concerns of unintended consequences of the federal government’s hate laws.
- Mostafa Rachwani
Greens senator’s lobbyist husband gets free pass on $50k of taxpayer-funded flights
Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young’s husband Ben Oquist works for a high-powered lobbying firm but taxpayers paid for his flights to work in Canberra.
- Brittany Busch
The other travel perk politicians pocket when they go to Canberra
Senator Michaelia Cash has claimed $123,978 over 40 months, or more than $3000 a month, to stay in a home she owns in the nation’s capital.
- Brittany Busch and Nigel Gladstone
MPs’ family travel to be limited to economy class after expenses saga
Anthony Albanese said he advised family travel should also be limited to Canberra or an MP’s electorate – aside from special circumstances – after an expenses scandal engulfed his government.
- Natassia Chrysanthos
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Anthony Albanese to cauterise MPs’ expenses furore as Michelle Rowland moves to repay part of family trip
A fortnight into the furore over politicians’ travel, Attorney-General Michelle Rowland will repay some of a $22,000 trip to Perth.
- Shane Wright