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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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The Leader of the Opposition, Bill Shorten is in Caboolture to launch LaborÕs campaign in Longman. Pics Tara Croser.

Poll boon for Albanese supporters

A POLL lifting Anthony Albanese’s potential as a rival leader of the Labor Party will give Bill Shorten a fresh headache ahead of the Super Saturday by-elections, 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

Senator dumped amid infighting over preselections

VETERAN Labor senator Gavin Marshall has been brutally dumped amid rising factional tensions which are threatening Bill Shorten’s authority over the Victorian party.

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Former Victorian Emergency Services Minister Jane Garrett at home. Picture: David Caird

Garrett will get a Labor seat

LABOR factional heavyweights say they expect a deal will done over the weekend to end Labor’s Victorian preselection brawl that will see former emergency services minister Jane Garrett given a seat in state parliament.

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Inquiry into matters relating to the misuse of electorate office staffing entitlements. John Lenders speaks at the inquiry at Parliament in Melbourne. Picture: Tony Gough

Lenders starts strong, but not for long

FORMER state treasurer John Lenders arrived at the parliamentary inquiry into Labor’s rorts-for-votes scheme in a combative mood. But he was immediately on the back foot, writes James Campbell and Monique Hore.

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Federal Opposition Leader Bill Shorten speaks to the media after a tour of the Summit Health Centre in Mt Barker, Adelaide, Friday, July 13, 2018. (AAP Image/David Mariuz) NO ARCHIVING

Shorten smashes Victoria’s Labor faction mess

BILL Shorten has dramatically stepped in to end the Labor Party’s preselection chaos in Victoria which has descended into an ugly factional war with words of abuse flying between two powerful unions.

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Opposition Leader Bill Shorten and PM Malcolm Turnbull attend Ecumenical Service for the start of the 2018 Parliamentary year at the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture in Canberra.

Pollsters rethink as viewers switch off

THE drop in free-to-air TV viewers has forced political campaigners to rethink their strategies to target voters, writes James Campbell.

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Peter Marshall, UFU Victoria Secretary speaks outside a Senate Inquiry at Parliament House, Melbourne. Picture: Mark Stewart

Marshall calls for fundraising probe as Labor brawl escalates

UNITED Firefighters Union boss Peter Marshall has launched an extraordinary new salvo into Labor’s preselection brawling by calling for an inquiry into party fundraising and memberships.

Peter Marshall united firefighters union secretary giving evidence at inquiry into fire services bill at State Parliament, Melbourne. PictureNicole Garmston

Marshall still a hurdle in Shorten’s run for Lodge

TWO years after he helped to sink Bill Shorten’s previous run at the Lodge, Peter Marshall is still causing him headaches, writes James Campbell.

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Former Victorian Emergency Services Minister Jane Garrett at home. Picture: David Caird

UFU, CFMEU in war of words over Garrett

TWO of Victoria’s most powerful unions are at loggerheads over the future of former emergency services minister Jane Garrett as the Labor Party allegedly investigates a tweet joking about her murder.

Australian Social Services Minister Dan Tehan speaks during House of Representatives Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra, Thursday, February 8, 2018. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

Tehan’s move on rights and religion

FRESH from their defeat over gay marriage, the conservative forces ascendant in the Liberal Party have moved on to campaigning for a religious discrimination act, writes James Campbell.

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