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Morrison washes his hands of teal contests as Liberals roll out two-tier campaign

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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

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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

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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

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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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Oh, for the stability of a ‘hung parliament’

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It’s pretty amusing that a party that has had three prime ministers and three treasurers in nine years is warning about the chaos and instability of a ‘hung parliament’. The Liberal MPs in danger of losing their seats to independents, backed by a riotously melancholy chorus at News Corp, are...
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Scott ‘making shit up as I go along’ Morrison confused over governments versus experts

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By Crikey's Bernard KeaneRemember “internationalist bureaucracy”? Scott Morrison, in full-blown Trumpian mode after his 2019 election win, decided to rail against an “ill-defined borderless global community” and “negative globalism”. Like most Morrison neologisms — especially the notorious “can do capitalism”, which didn’t last 24 hours — it was soon abandoned....
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Ex Prime Minister Howard’s enlightened words

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Former prime minister John Howard has issued a stark warning to fellow Liberals that the election is so close that any loss in a socalled ‘‘teal’’ seat will spell the end of the Morrison government. Launching Liberal MP Trent Zimmerman’s campaign to retain the seat of North Sydney on Tuesday...
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The Verdict: Labor tax solution better than Coalition, worse than Donald Trump

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by Callum Foote Timid, worse than Donald Trump but better than the Coalition. That’s the verdict on Labor’s policy to combat multinational tax avoiders. Although large corporations have been subsidised through the pandemic like never before, they will still now enjoy years of tax-free profits thanks to gaping holes in...
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Clive Palmer, his money and his billboards are back. What does this mean for the 2022 federal election?

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Clive Palmer, his money and his billboards are back. What does this mean for the 2022 federal election? Susan Harris Rimmer, Griffith University Clive Palmer has had a tough run leading up to the 2022 election campaign. He faced COVID-19 without the protection of vaccination in March, tripped at his National Press...
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Lowe blow: Reserve Bank misled millions, leaving PM with huge mess to clean up

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Campaign Diary By Dennis Atkins The interest rate rise will be a defining issue as we swing into the second half of this campaign. Dennis Atkins looks at what’s happened and what political cost might ensue.If this was Japan and Phillip Lowe was Haruhiko Kuroda, the Reserve Bank’s governor would have...
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