Eric Abetz is an Australian politician and member of the Coalition government.
March 2024
Australia news live
Tasmanian Labor leader concedes Liberals should have first opportunity to try to form government – as it happened
This blog is now closed.
November 2023
Eric Abetz behind push to dump moderate Liberals, including Bridget Archer, party sources say
Veteran adviser criticises Tasmanian rightwing powerbroker’s ‘factional warfare’ to ‘blast Bridget out of the party’
October 2022
‘Don’t criticise us’: Australian Monarchist League defends welcoming Hanson and Deves as speakers
‘Socialism sucks’ stickers on display as CPAC Australia stokes fears of Indigenous voice
August 2022
Australian Monarchist League appoints former Liberal senator Eric Abetz as chairman
The group aims to fight the Labor government’s plans to hold a referendum on a republic, should it win a second term
June 2022
Liberal Eric Abetz to leave parliament as Jacqui Lambie Network claims Tasmanian Senate seat
Abetz takes credit for reelection of Liberal colleagues as new senator Tammy Tyrell says ‘today is a bloody good day’
April 2022
Eric Abetz’s $2,000 expense to attend Tony Abbott farewell dinner justified by former PM’s ‘pro-Tasmania policies’
Expenses watchdog says Liberal MP’s interstate travel bill qualified as parliamentary business
March 2022
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
Weeks out from the 2022 federal election, it pays to remember the House contest determines who governs but the Senate always shapes what happens next
May 2021
‘I can’t do anything about my sex’: Eric Abetz blames sexism and ageism for Senate ticket demotion
Eric Abetz dumped from top spot on Liberal party’s Tasmanian Senate ticket
March 2021
Australian politics live with Amy Remeikis
Government 'pursuing' investigations into staffers – as it happened
Simon Birmingham says government working to ‘get to the bottom of these allegations’; Liberal MP Andrew Laming apologises over correspondence with constituents. This blog is now closed
Senator Eric Abetz denies claim he made highly offensive comments about Brittany Higgins
Tasmanian speaker Sue Hickey alleged in state parliament the veteran Liberal senator made comments ‘slut shaming’ the former Liberal staffer
Death threats, distrust and racism: how anti-Chinese sentiment in Australia 'seeped into the mainstream'
Threatening letters sent to Asian councillors and a surge in race hate attacks during the pandemic has renewed calls for a centralised hate tracker
February 2021
Some witnesses too afraid of Chinese authorities to give evidence at Australian inquiry
The Labor chair of the inquiry raises safety concerns as report tells of ‘extremely troubling’ incidents in diaspora communities
October 2020
'All the right causes': Miranda Devine and Coalition senators back extreme Queensland candidate
Eric Abetz refuses to apologise for demanding Chinese-Australians denounce Communist party
June 2020
The transparency project
Eric Abetz billed taxpayers to attend gala mining industry event
Exclusive: Tasmanian senator says his attendance at the dinner, which was headlined by John Howard, was in the interests of his electorate
March 2020
Covid-19 is pushing sports rorts from the news. But at least one potential crime must be investigated
Tony Harris
Who made the unauthorised alteration to the list of applicants? Will the AFP try to find out?
November 2019
Tony Abbott accuses China of bullying neighbours and warns of 'cold peace'
Former PM’s comment puts him at odds with Paul Keating who claims relationship has been poisoned by hysteria
September 2019
Australian politics live with Amy Remeikis
Coalition MP to climate strike students: 'Everything you are told is a lie' – as it happened
Craig Kelly declares ‘there is no link between climate change and drought’ as Labor grills government over $4.6bn underspend on NDIS. All the days events, live
