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Mackellar malaise: could an independent GP cause an upset in the Liberals’ beachside bastion?

ELECTIONS
By The Guardian's    Anne Davies Until now, the contest between Liberal MP Jason Falinski and former middle distance runner and local GP Dr Sophie Scamps for Sydney’s northern beaches seat of Mackellar has been dismissed as a case study in optimism over hard facts. The Liberals have held Mackellar for...
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PM turns blue heartland teal

ELECTIONS
By Peter Hartcher SMH's Chief Political Editor When other independent candidates for federal parliament started to colour their campaigns teal, some of Zali Steggall’s supporters got very protective. They urged her to intervene. It was her colour, after all. Teal was the colour of Steggall’s 2019 campaign when she defeated Tony...
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Lobbyland: The scourge of powerful special interests and lobbyists

ECONOMY
By John Menadue This article was first published on October 29, 2020.A major reason for the loss of trust in governments and parliaments is the way powerful special interests with their lobbyists have come to dominate the public debate and skew decisions in their favour. The fossil fuel sector is...
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By what measure is Australia’s economy leading the world? We went searching

ECONOMY
By Alan AustinThe Coalition’s repeated claims that Australia’s economy is one of the world’s strongest can be refuted by simply looking at the numbers. At every opportunity, Scott Morrison and Josh Frydenberg declare that “our economy today is one of the strongest in the advanced world”, as the PM did...
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The last wildcard: will the UAP ‘chaos agent’ turn his cash on Labor again?

ELECTIONS
By Kishor Napier-RamanClive Palmer has outspent the major parties on advertising this election. But will the United Australia Party have any success this time? The biggest wildcard of this election period may not have been played yet. At about this point of the 2019 campaign — two weeks before voters...
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Australian Electoral Commission investigating fake signs suggesting independents are Greens

ELECTIONS
The Australian Electoral Commission is investigating a series of doctored posters that have appeared overnight incorrectly showing the names and faces of "teal" independent candidates with the Greens logo. Pigsfly News notes this abhorrent derogatory marketing ploy requires fairly deep pockets and has been used in past elections in...
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Morrison washes his hands of teal contests as Liberals roll out two-tier campaign

ELECTIONS
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has all but washed his hands of campaigns to save inner-city moderate Liberal MPs facing serious challenges from “teal” independents. Mr Morrison made his fifth campaign stop in Labor-held Parramatta on Thursday, a push into rival territory that would usually be a show of confidence. But it...
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Vote for ‘teals’ can fix nation: Turnbull

INDEPENDENTS
By Farrah Tomazin SMH's North America correspondent Washington: Former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has encouraged Australians to vote for independents a month after he declined to say if he would vote for Liberal MP Dave Sharma in his former seat of Wentworth. In an intervention likely to infuriate the former colleagues Turnbull...
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Dark money in Australian politics

ELECTIONS
By Michael Yabsley When former Liberal Party treasurer and shrewd political fundraiser Michael Yabsley says big money in politics shreds integrity, it's a jarring warning from the poacher turned gamekeeper. When he addressed the National Press Club on February 16, Climate 200 founder Simon Holmes à Court placed integrity in politics...
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Morrison’s election pitch is short on substance, contradictory and confusing

ELECTIONS
By Niki Savva Award-winning political commentator and author Unless Scott Morrison comes up with a compelling new policy or gambit in the next few days, he could go down in history as the Liberal leader who won an election he should have lost, then lost the one he should have won...
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