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Australia votes
Allen among potential challengers as redraw kicks off jockeying for seats
Liberal moderate Katie Allen is expected to seek a return to politics at the next election and progressive independents may target senior NSW Liberal Angus Taylor.
- by Paul Sakkal
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Peter Dutton has revved up Australia’s climate war – and scientists and business are in despair
The return of the climate war has entrenched old fault lines.
- by Nick O'Malley
Harbhajan Singh leaves behind his wicket ways, turns to diplomacy
Once the key antagonist in an incident that brought relations with India to an all-time low, the former spinner is now working to boost bilateral relations.
- by Kishor Napier-Raman and Noel Towell
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Political leadership
The narratives cloaking ‘weak’ Albanese and ‘nasty’ Dutton are setting like cement
Sensible women and men have had more than enough. They also have plenty of alternatives come the next election if they still feel that the current crop of national leaders is failing them.
- by Niki Savva
Simon Holmes a Court, the son of a Liberal premier, and their hopes for a local ‘teal wash’
Teal candidates were the surprise success at the last federal election. Now the people who backed them to win are targeting local government.
- by Cara Waters
Rugby Australia chair’s wife crash-tackles the haters
Rugby fans have the knives out for RA boss Hamish McLennan. On Instagram, his wife Lucinda fought back.
- by Kishor Napier-Raman and Noel Towell
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Nuclear energy
‘No good reason for ongoing nuclear ban’: Holmes à Court
One of the key backers of the teal movement argued nuclear energy could conceivably play a role in Australia in the 2040s, though he described the Coalition’s energy policy as fanciful.
- by Paul Sakkal
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Victorian Parliament
‘Nearly impossible for an independent’: Holmes a Court blasts multimillion dollar ‘head start’ enshrined in state rules
The Climate 200 political funding group says the Labor and Liberal parties benefitted from $212 million in public funding in the four years before the 2022 Victorian election.
- by Annika Smethurst
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Political donations
Teals fear new donations rules could kill off independents’ movement
Labor’s Don Farrell shrugged off the teal movement’s concern that new election spending rules will stymie independents.
- by Paul Sakkal
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Victorian Parliament
Holmes a Court nephew considers byelection run in Warrandyte
Angelo von Moller, 18, is considering running as an independent in the state seat following the resignation of Liberal MP Ryan Smith.
- by Annika Smethurst
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City life
Normal people: Booze-free brewers join mega-rich in teal funders’ club
Climate 200, which is backing teal independent candidates, received donations from non-alcoholic brewers Heaps Normal.
- by Kishor Napier-Raman and Noel Towell
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