Josh Burns worked a number of jobs before politics, including as a teacher’s aide and a factory hand, but it was his time serving as a Senior Adviser to the Premier of Victoria Daniel Andrews that he says inspired him to move further into the political sphere. Since being elected Labor’s Federal Member of Parliament for Macnamara in 2019, Josh has been a passionate campaigner for support for local businesses and an advocate for tackling Australia’s housing affordability and homelessness crisis.

March saw the end of the JobKeeper wage subsidy, a modest increase to the JobSeeker unemployment benefit, a bungled vaccine rollout blame game and a reshuffle kerfuffle. We flesh out what was yet another month of reports of horrific treatment of women in Australian politics and how a government in crisis scrambles to deal with the continued fallout.