Byron Shire councillor Janet Swain has officially launched her campaign as Labor’s candidate for the state seat of Ballina at the March 2027 NSW election.

Labor branches in the seat of Ballina voted in their preselection over the weekend and it is understood that Janet Swain has comfortably won, though this won’t be confirmed until Thursday.

Lachlan Hall says he's putting his hand up in Labor’s internal preselection process to stand as his party's candidate for Ballina.

The Australian Labor Party's 50th Annual Conference, at the Adelaide Convention Centre, was a tightly stage-managed affair.

In the kind of move that Labor once derided in their opponents, the government used the cover of the federal budget – while most journalists were literally locked up – to deliver its response to the late Peta Murphy's report into online gambling, 'You Win Some, You Lose More'.

Last week, while Albo flew around the world trying to secure emergency fuel and fertiliser supplies for Australia, as a result of the international crisis caused by the United States, Acting PM and Defence Minister Richard Marles was in Canberra talking about defence.

Recent amendments to the state’s main planning law just adopted by NSW Labor will result in councillors losing their powers to approve development applications (DAs).

Anthony Albanese's government has no functional opposition, but an Australian socialist utopia seems as remote as ever. Would Ben Chifley recognise Labor in the 21st century? What happened to the 'betterment of mankind'? The party which once existed to serve the interests of the working class now seems utterly beholden to the military industrial complex, big miners and the gambling industry.

Greens MLC Sue Higginson has accused the state government of ‘a secret Labor deal to cut funding from 1000 flooded homes’.

The NSW Labor government is planning to halve the amount of time local communities are given to express their views on large housing developments in their towns and suburbs.