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Nick Xenophon

Latest news about Australian politician Nick Xenophon from the Guardian

May 2022

  • Simon Birmingham for the Coalition and Penny Wong for Labor in the Senate chamber of Parliament House. Labor will be hoping for a more sympathetic Senate if it forms government next week after the 2022 Australian federal election on Saturday

    Federal election 2022: what are the chances for each party in the Senate and who will win?

    The makeup of the Senate will be crucial to the success of the next Australian government: here is a prediction of the seats most likely to change

March 2022

  • Independent Senator Rex Patrick

    Rex Patrick takes aim at Nick Xenophon over Huawei in parliament remarks as former senator rejoins race

  • Katharine Murphy

    Katharine Murphy on politics
    From Lambie’s ‘loud girl’ to Ericmentum, Tasmania’s fierce Senate race is a taste of what’s to come

    Katharine Murphy

August 2021

  • Independent senator for South Australia Rex Patrick outside his offices in Parliament House

    Rex Patrick, accidental senator: ‘I do cause trouble. But it’s public interest trouble’

    He’s a gadfly, obsessive, a dog with a bone. The bureaucrats who face his relentless grilling might be surprised to know he isn’t always so headstrong

December 2019

  • Angus Taylor during question time

    Nick Xenophon defends his new role with controversial telco Huawei – as it happened

    Former senator says his job is simply to correct untruths and slurs against the Chinese technology giant. This blog is now closed

August 2019

  • Burnt building

    'Public at risk': bill to ban flammable cladding imports returns to Senate

    Centre Alliance says it will reintroduce a bill to ban the import of combustible cladding

July 2018

  • Rebekha Sharkie on Sunday

    Rebekha Sharkie credits 'people power' with byelection victory

    Live export ban and ABC funding among top priorities, Centre Alliance MP says

June 2018

  • The Senate chamber at Parliament House.

    Seeing red: the personal feuds and party splits that plague the Senate

    Almost two years on from the double dissolution election, its effects are still being felt with an endless game of musical chairs

April 2018

  • Birds at sunrise on the Coorong near the mouth of the Murray River where it flows into the Great Australian Bight. Photograph taken in 2013. Photograph by Mike Bowers. Guardian Australia

    Our wide brown land
    Ghost water, poor planning and theft: how the Murray-Darling plan fell apart

    More than five years and $9bn since the basin plan began, the Murray-Darling river system is in crisis. In a series of in-depth features and articles this week, Guardian Australia will explore what’s gone wrong

March 2018

  • Former senator Nick Xenophon with Frank Pangallo (centre) and Connie Bonaros (right) in Adelaide on Sunday.

    SA Best vows to crack down on attack ads after 'dirty' election campaign

  • South Australian premier-elect Steven Marshall gives his victory speech at the Liberal party reception

    South Australian Liberals claim victory after 16 years in opposition

  • Katharine Murphy Political editor

    How two third-party insurgencies pulled up short in Australia's super Saturday

    Katharine Murphy Political editor
  • South Australia’s Liberal Leader Steven Marshall gives a thumbs up to a voter at a polling station in Adelaide

    Australian politics live with Amy Remeikis
    Liberals triumph in South Australian election – as it happened

  • South Australia heads to the polls for unpredictable election

  • This South Australian election is a shemozzle! Nobody has any idea what is going to happen

    First Dog on the Moon
  • SA election promises compared: how do the policies add up?

  • SA election: Weatherill comes out swinging in final leaders' debate

  • Grogonomics
    Why South Australians are older, poorer and on their way interstate

    Greg Jericho
  • The Conversation
    FactCheck: would SA Best pokies plan wipe out 'many' of 26,000 jobs?

  • South Australian mining baron attacks Labor and donates to Liberals and SA Best

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