dear jo

this december, we celebrate a very important 30th anniversary: it is 30 years since jo vallentine was elected to the senate.

On October 19 I was invited to participate in a ‘Men of Letters’event in Sydney — an occasional departure for the wonderful women of letters team. ten of us were…

thanks to you, the real opposition

END OF YEAR SENATE SPEECH TO GET A FEW THINGS OFF MY CHEST.

Welcome to Western Australia

Tonight I rise to invite Prime Minister Tony Abbott to visit the beautiful state of Western Australia. I do this in good faith, because we are only a matter of weeks away from a historic by-election that will not just determine the final makeup of this chamber after July but…

what even is #estimates

Three times a year, the ordinary sittings of the Senate are suspended for the obscure but essential business of budget estimates hearings. For the next fortnight, the bleak theatre in the House of Representatives will continue as expected, but the Senate chamber will lie empty; the…