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Tanya Plibersek

Tanya Plibersek is an Australian politician and the current deputy leader of the Australian Labor party

June 2026

  • Barnaby Joyce

    Barnaby Joyce claims people who ‘look like’ recent arrivals dominate auctions. Who is he talking about?

    Statistics show fewer than 1% of homes are bought by foreigners, as race discrimination commissioner warns against blaming migrants for housing woes

March 2026

  • Federal Minister for Social Services Tanya Plibersek

    Plibersek accuses Mafs of platforming ‘coercive control’ after contestant wanted a woman ‘obedient’ like a dog

    Social services minister Tanya Plibersek criticises hit reality TV show Married at First Sight for ‘messaging which encourages control and dehumanises women’

December 2025

  • John Howard as prime minister and Philip Ruddock as attorney general during a press conference in 2005

    Philip Ruddock laments removal of lifetime pensions for MPs as cabinet papers shed more light on Howard government

  • Tailings dam site. A proposed gold mine site near Blayney.

    Mining company claims government didn’t follow proper process for Aboriginal heritage protection order

November 2025

  • Federal Minister for Social Services Tanya Plibersek speaks to the media in Sydney, Friday, June 27, 2025. (AAP Image/Steven Markham) NO ARCHIVING

    ‘Dangerous and undermines our systems’: Tanya Plibersek condemns serious police failures in Queensland DV deaths

    Plibersek said those victims – Hannah Clarke and her children, Kardell Lomas and her unborn child, and Gail Karran – ‘should have been kept safe’

August 2025

  • Centrelink signage on a building.

    About 3m Australians affected by unlawful Centrelink debt calculation to be eligible for up to $600 compensation

  •  A Tesla car charges up.

    Road tax for Australian EV users ‘sensible’, Tanya Plibersek says ahead of key economic summit

July 2025

  • Tanya Plibersek

    Social services department warned Tanya Plibersek she faces uphill battle amid ‘political polarisation’

    Brief obtained under freedom of information laws shows new minister told of ‘increased risk of entrenched disadvantage’ in Australia

June 2025

  • Plibersek speaks to the media

    Coalition happy to have quotas for Nationals on frontbench but not for female Liberal MPs, Tanya Plibersek says

    Labor frontbencher rubbishes Angus Taylor’s assertion that gender quotas ‘subvert democratic processes’
  • Anthony Albanese and Penny Wong at a press conference

    PM backs Iran strikes but says Australia is ‘deeply concerned about any escalation’

    Penny Wong refuses to say whether Pine Gap communications facility in NT was used in US bombing of three Iranian nuclear sites
  • A truck passes a Beetaloo sign

    Federal Labor ministers at odds over contentious NT gas pipeline decision, internal document shows

    Exclusive: Agriculture minister Julie Collins and Indigenous affairs minister Malarndirri McCarthy expressed concern over Sturt Plateau pipeline’s construction

May 2025

  • Environment Minister Murray Watt visited the Lamington National Park in the Gold Coast hinterland on Friday.

    Federal EPA a ‘very high and immediate’ priority of Albanese government, environment minister says

    Murray Watt is also considering ditching the ‘nature positive’ title for Labor’s overhaul of the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act
  • Anthony Albanese

    Anthony Albanese’s new cabinet suggests cautious PM will pick his battles

    The reshuffle sees the main players in place, some middle-ranking changes, and two switches that speak to factional politics
  • Tanya Plibersek

    Anthony Albanese reveals new cabinet with Tanya Plibersek named as minister for social services

    PM has named his new frontbench, including Michelle Rowland as the new attorney general, after a factional brawl over positions

April 2025

  • Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese seemingly blocked a hug from Tanya Plibersek at the Labor campaign launch ahead of the federal election

    ‘I should’ve done the elbow bump’: Plibersek and Albanese brush off awkward greeting at Labor election campaign launch

    ‘During an election campaign, the last thing you want is to catch a cold from someone – so that’s on me,’ environment minister says
  • The environment minister went in for a hug and a kiss, but Albanese grabbed both her hands seemingly to block her from getting any closer

    Anthony Albanese seemingly blocks a hug from Tanya Plibersek at Labor campaign launch – video

    The environment minister went in for a hug and a kiss, but Albanese grabbed both her hands seemingly to block her from getting any closer
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      Massive swarms of bogong moths once resembled rain clouds – then their numbers crashed to earth

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      A high-flying visitor – the wondrous far eastern curlew – faces fresh threat in NT wetlands haven

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      Australia is in an extinction crisis – why isn’t it an issue at this election?

March 2025

  • Salmon farm in Macquarie Harbour, Tasmania

    Controversial bill to protect Tasmanian salmon industry passes despite environmental concerns

    Critics say industry threatens the endangered Maugean skate and laws were rushed through with ’no proper process’
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