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Independent candidate Kate Hulett.

Why have the Liberals changed their tune on Kate Hulett?

Hulett’s placement was one of several surprises contained in the major parties’ how-to-vote cards released over the past two days following the draw of ballots earlier this week. 

  • Hamish Hastie

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Willoughby business owner has been selling flowers for 45 years but says business has never been so bad.

This electorate is one of Sydney’s most affluent. It is not immune to cost-of-living pressures

Bradfield stayed in Liberal hands when electorates around it went teal in 2022, but can the party hold the once blue-ribbon seat at this election?

  • Alexandra Smith
Campaign corflutes damaged in marginal electorate in the run up to this year’s federal election.

Torched, defaced, smeared: have Australia’s corflute wars gone too far?

Candidates in marginal electorates have reported a high number of incidents with campaign posters being torn down, or worse.

  • Daniel Lo Surdo, Penry Buckley and Cindy Yin
Goldstein MP Zoe Daniel.

Teals called slanted polls ‘an affront to democracy’. Climate 200 uses them

Listen to a call obtained by this masthead that delivers praise of teal Zoe Daniel and tarnishes her opponents under the banner of a survey.

  • Olivia Ireland
Zoe Daniel: “People are looking for a disruptor. If not a disruptor in Trump form, maybe a disruptor in teal form.”

‘In that moment, everything changed’: Goldstein MP Zoe Daniel’s teenage grief

The TV journalist turned teal MP on the drift from the two-party system, struggling to keep fit – and the day she lost her innocence.

  • Benjamin Law

This election is one of the worst I’ve seen. Here’s the one thing we can do to fix Australian politics

I think both sides of politics are treating us like mugs. Maybe like the mugs many of us have allowed ourselves to become.

  • Ross Gittins
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Wentworth’s Allegra Spender, Kingsford Smith MP Matt Thistlethwaite and Liberal candidate for Wentworth Ro Knox.

Handshake, strong words: first public face-off for Spender and Knox after legal threat

The independent Wentworth MP has debated Ro Knox for the first time since she threatened to sue the Liberal candidate over a campaign sign controversy.

  • Penry Buckley
Dr Kerryn Phelps briefly held the inner-Sydney seat of Wentworth.

Independents wield the power of balance

The emergence of more and more credible community independent campaigns is a sign that more Australians are actively engaging in the political process.

  • Kerryn Phelps

We asked Australians what they really think about this election. Here’s what they said

We spoke to 12 undecided voters and asked them how they felt about the May 3 election, what they thought the big issues were - and what they thought the result would be.

  • Angus Delaney, Nick Newling, Penry Buckley and Hannah Hammoud
Curtin MP Kate Chaney.

Kate Chaney accuses Seven West Media of smear campaign

In a statement Chaney said the Kerry Stokes-chaired company was running a campaign against her to claw back lost influence on Australian politics.

  • Hamish Hastie

Original URL: https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/topic/teal-independents-6hcj