Live: Teal independents launch new centrist political party

live Federal politics live: Teal independents launch new centrist political party Two Sydney teal independent MPs have launched a new centrist political party, with ambitions of picking up seats in the Senate. Follow all the updates in our live blog. Submit a comment or question Live updates New: Filters Choose what information you see below by using filters Thu 25 Jun 2026 at 7:14am Breaking: IS-linked woman on temporary exclusion order issued permit to return home An Australian woman in Syria with links to Islamic State (IS), who had been issued a Temporary Exclusion Order (TEO), has now been issued a permit to return to Australia. The woman was the only person issued a TEO from the cohort of Australian women with links to IS in Syria. Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke told ABC's AM that the woman was issued a permit to return last night. He says the TEO applies until a permit is issued, and when a permit is requested, it has to legally be issued. "We received the final advice yesterday that we can no longer have an exclusion condition any longer for her" He says Australian intelligence and security agencies are ready, and her permit to return will include a raft of monitoring measures. "She will have to report where she lives, where she works, where she studies, if she books a ticket to anywhere, for telecommunications she cannot use any telecommunications device without giving 24 hours notice," he said. Thu 25 Jun 2026 at 7:13am Nicolette Boele won't be joining new political party, for now Independent MP Nicolette Boele has congratulated the formation of the new Community Strong party and has left the door open to joining. Boele, who was elected to parliament at the last election, says she expects to work with the centrist political party often. The Bradfield MP says she is "genuinely excited" what the formation of the new political party means for Australia. "For now, I am remaining independent. That is the mandate Bradfield gave me, and any decision to change that belongs to my community, not to a press conference," Boele says. "I am still working through what this party would allow me to do for the people I represent that I cannot already do as a community independent and until I am certain, I will not pretend otherwise." Key Event Thu 25 Jun 2026 at 7:10am Independent MPs launch new centrist political party called Community Strong Australia Independents Zali Steggall and Allegra Spender have announced the creation of a new centrist political party called Community Strong Australia. In a statement, the Sydney MPs say the party will support "community-backed" candidates and parliamentarians in both houses of parliament. Community Strong Australia representatives will be able to collaborate on policy yet retain the right to a free vote on the floor of parliament, according to the statement. An application has been lodged with the Australian Electoral Commission to register the party, and the process should be finalised by October. The party's focus will be on integrity, climate action, and economic prosperity, according to a statement from Stegall and Spender. "Australia is at a turning point and people are worried about what the future holds. Community Strong Australia offers unity over division and reason over rage. We invite everyone who shares those values to join us," Steggall says. Thu 25 Jun 2026 at 7:06am PM to defend tax reforms in 'State of the Nation' speech The prime minister will use an upcoming address to the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) State of the Nation conference to assert Labor's tax reforms will make a positive difference to people's lives. Anthony Albanese will say capital gains tax and negative gearing changes, which are expected to pass parliament today, will "help correct the negative consequences of tax changes made in 1999". "The changes that John Howard and Peter Costello made to capital gains tax and its interaction with negative gearing were supposed to boost investment in the share market," Albanese will tell the independent think tank's event in Canberra later today. "Instead, they turbocharged property as an investment vehicle." Albanese will outline recently announced capital gains carve-outs for small businesses and start-ups, and acknowledge the "constructive engagement" of the business community, which largely reacted negatively to the tax changes unveiled on budget night. The speech also contains sharp criticism of the Coalition, with Albanese to say the opposition has chosen "irrelevance". "They have gone beyond defending a status quo that is failing people — they are now promising to re-impose it. To bring back the distortions that have locked young people out of the housing market. "They want to repeat the mistakes of decades past, we are fixing them — in housing and across the economy." Thu 25 Jun 2026 at 7:00am Good morning 👋 Hello and welcome to our federal politics live blog! It's great to have you join us early this Thursday morning. I'm Josh Boscaini, joining you live from Parliament House in Canberra, here and ready to bring you all of today's federal politics news. Independent MPs Zali Steggall and Allegra Spender have launched a new centrist political party named Community Strong Australia. We'll hear more about that a little later. The prime minister will this morning deliver an address to the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) for the State of the Nation address. And the government's budget bill will go to a vote in the Senate this afternoon, following that deal between Labor and the Greens to pass the legislation through the upper house. 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