The Coronavirus pandemic has seen the number of locals relying on unemployment payments increase from 3,947 in December 2019 to more than 9,800 in August 2020 – up by more than 5,800 people or 249 per cent.

This September, for the first time in almost a quarter of a century, pensions will not be increased through indexation.

New numbers reveal that more than 27,000 workers on Brisbane’s Southside could be worse off and more than $24 million will be ripped out of the local economy every fortnight if the Morrison Government goes ahead with its cuts to JobKeeper at the end of September.

An international survey found that more than 44 % of women in politics have been threatened with murder, rape, beatings or abduction.

Terri Butler MP looks back at the first week of the Spring sittings as parliament returns.