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Lessons from the teal seats

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Simon Holmes à Court outlines the Lessons from the teal seatsThe phrase was coined by a volunteer for Sophie Scamps in Mackellar, but it was just as fitting in Kooyong or Goldstein or anywhere else that people were experiencing the optimism and satisfaction of engaging for the first time...
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We didn’t turn left. We wised up

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Peter Hartcher writes in The Sydney Morning Herald When an election is held, powerful explanations for victory and defeat form quickly. They will direct political behaviour for years. Some explanations will be well founded. Others will be myths. What explains last week’s election results? Why was the Coalition defeated? Why did...
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Morrison’s boat turnback blitz on election day was his final act of political bastardry

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Michael Bradley writes in Crikey It’s perfectly fitting that Scott Morrison’s final official act as prime minister should have been one of pure self-interested political bastardry at the expense of vulnerable people. Stick that on his headstone — it’s all he deserves. Instructing Border Force to publicise the turnback of an...
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After-dark pundits want to push the Liberals further right. Let them

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Guy Rundle writes in CrikeyThe proposition that’s been put out by the right, in the wake of its shellacking, is that the Coalition lost because it pandered to the teals in the inner cities. It should have been going to the suburbs and the fringe urban areas, the argument...
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Who is Peter Dutton? The ex-cop tipped to be the next leader of the Liberal Party

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Zac Crellin writes in The NewDaily. Peter Dutton is the man tipped to be Australia’s next Opposition Leader. With Scott Morrison stepping down on Saturday night after his election defeat, and former treasurer Josh Frydenberg losing his seat, the field is clear for Mr Dutton to take the reins of the...
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Time for change – the Attorney General and the AAT

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Just before erstwhile Prime Minister Scott Morrison called Saturday’s election Senator Cash shamelessly appointed a number of Liberal and government members and staffers to the AAT where they will earn between around $190,000 to $380,000 a year. There was no attempt to hide this stacking of this quasi judicial...
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The crossbench is dead. Greens and indies are a third force in Parliament

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Guy Rundle writes in CrikeyWaking amid half-empty bottles, dried sick and dead roaches (figuratively and literally), and despite all efforts to remain jaded and louche, your correspondent regrets to report feelings of excitement, hope and possibilities. Labor victory — rah! More Greens — rah! But it’s the vast crossbench that...
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It’s time

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The remarkable fact about Anthony Albanese is that until about six years ago he never thought he would be prime minister. This may not seem surprising, but it marks him as different to his predecessors. Possibly, it makes him more normal. He is not Tony Abbott, whose mother told family friends...
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Government exits amid shredding snowstorm, Labor ministers make staged entry

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View from The Hill: Government exits amid shredding snowstorm, Labor ministers make staged entry Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra The transition from one government to another involves a democratic miracle and a physical mess. In parliament house’s ministerial wing on Monday, shredding machines were working flat out, fragments of their massive output...
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Women — teal, red or green — are this election’s central stor

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Madonna King writes in Crikey As much as this election is a story shunning Scott Morrison, it’s also a story about the rise of strong, savvy and professional women. A story that began with Brittany Higgins and Chanel Contos and Grace Tame, and was carried on by their big sisters last...
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