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Yes, independents are agents of chaos … for the major parties

ELECTIONS
Jacqueline Maley write in The Sydney Morning Herald ‘If you had said to me two years ago, I would be wearing an aqua T-shirt up in Mosman, I would have said: ‘No way.’’’ So said one of the Zali Steggall volunteers I interviewed during the 2019 election, a resident of Warringah. She...
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How Nationals and lobbyists play the new climate wars

COAL
By The SaturdayPaper's Marian Wilkinson   Young and with a ready smile, James Thomson appears an unlikely foot soldier in the new climate wars. But the Maitland Christian School community relations officer turned National Party candidate for Hunter has some big enemies in his sights. Close to the top of his list...
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NSW Ministers must show reasons for pork-barrelling: grants report

FUA AWARDS
By Sydney Morning Herald reporters  Lucy Cormack and Matt O'Sullivan By SMH's Alexandra Smith 7 May 2022 Ministers must give written reasons for approving taxpayer-funded grants, according to the state’s two top public servants in a new report sparked after several damaging pork-barrelling scandals. All grants must also be publicly available on a...
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Independent Suzie Holt’s fight for Groom – the 2nd safest Liberal seat in the nation

POLITICS
The Saturday Paper's Margo Kingston writes. A week ago, on April 28, 150 businesspeople paid $50 each to attend the first ever Toowoomba Chamber of Commerce federal candidates’ forum in Groom, the second-safest seat in the nation. It’s the only candidates’ forum the sitting MP, Garth Hamilton, will attend. He’s...
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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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