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James CampbellNational weekend political editor

James Campbell is national weekend political editor for Saturday and Sunday News Corporation newspapers and websites across Australia, including the Saturday and Sunday Herald Sun, the Saturday and Sunday Telegraph and the Saturday Courier Mail and Sunday Mail. He has previously been investigations editor, state politics editor and opinion editor of the Herald Sun and Sunday Herald Sun. Since starting on the Sunday Herald Sun in 2008 Campbell has twice been awarded the Grant Hattam Quill Award for investigative journalism by the Melbourne Press Club and in 2013 won the Walkley Award for Scoop of the Year.

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PM Malcolm Turnbull and his wife Lucy attending a Nationals Party Reception at the Hyatt Hotel in Canberra. Picture Kym Smith

‘PM has my support’: Dutton

MALCOLM Turnbull has radically changed his energy policy in a desperate bid to prevent a possible leadership challenge, as Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton claims the PM has his support.

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Victorian Liberal Party president Michael Kroger leaves the Federal Court in Melbourne, Thursday, June 14, 2018. The Victorian Liberal party are in a dispute with their biggest donor, the Cormack Foundation, and its $70 million war chest. (AAP Image/David Crosling) NO ARCHIVING

Liberals’ preselection strife continues

THE longstanding hostility of Liberal Party members to admin preselections — and their heartfelt desire for party democracy — has been clear for many years, writes James Campbell. Which is why the latest decision is so unpopular.

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Prime Minister of Australia and Leader of the Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull talks at a press conference outside State Parliament in Sydney today.   Pic Jenny Evans

Dark clouds hang over the Coalition

HAVING dared to dream they might take a seat off the Labor Party, Coalition MPs and their friends and supporters woke on Sunday morning to a brutal reality, and things are likely to get worse, not better, writes James Campbell.

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Federal Opposition Leader Bill Shorten speaks at the launch of the Labor campaign for the seat of Longman, at the Caboolture RSL in Caboolture, Sunday, July 22, 2018. Mr Shorten launched the campaign of the ALP's candidate Susan Lamb ahead of the by-election to be held on Saturday July 28. (AAP Image/Darren England) NO ARCHIVING

Shorten’s preselection demand lost on Left

BILL Shorten told the ALP’s National Executive he wanted it to take over preselections in Victoria in order “that the efforts of all sitting MPs and candidates should be wholly focused on campaigning to win the next federal election.” It seems however that somebody forgot to tell the Socialist Left, writes James Campbell.

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