Sophie Scamps
Pat Cummins turns craft beer investor
The men’s cricket captain has become the first outside investor with Mountain Culture Beer Co
- by Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook
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Former RSL NSW boss to take on teal MP Sophie Scamps in northern beaches
Some senior Liberals in Mackellar were convinced a female candidate was needed to take on teal MP Sophie Scamps. Instead, the party chose a man.
- by Michael McGowan and Alexandra Smith
Opinion
Five Minutes with Fitz
Simon Holmes à Court: Dutton has ‘localised Trumpian tactics to Australian tastebuds’
The man most associated with teal candidates says he doesn’t know what the definition of a “teal” is.
- by Peter FitzSimons
The battle for Mackellar could come down to Sophie v Sophie
Northern beaches Liberals were deep in the Pittwater byelection when nominations for the federal seat closed.
- by Alexandra Smith
Teals back tax reform despite backlash risk on negative gearing
The “teal” independents and other crossbench MPs have called for negative gearing to be on the agenda in a total rethink of tax and housing policy.
- by David Crowe
The teals stunned the nation in 2022. They could make or break the next government
The seven women who won formerly blue-ribbon Liberal seats in Melbourne, Sydney and Perth promised a “new way” of doing politics. How have they changed the parliament?
- by James Massola
We should be so proud of our voting system
As a former resident of the US, I can attest to the differences between the two nations. For starters, even in the hotly contested 2020 US presidential election, 33 per cent of the voters abstained from voting. Even worse, the crazy electoral system in the US enabled the popular vote loser to become president in two of the last six presidential elections (George W. Bush in 2000 and Donald Trump in 2016).
Opinion
Parliament House
Be more civil, you racist: Why insults should not be banned in parliament
The teals want to raise the tone of debate, but they get the lowest political Scrabble score with the word “racist”.
- by Parnell Palme McGuinness
Gina Rinehart receives Cambodia’s highest honour from country’s king
The billionaire mining magnate has won a new foreign admirer in the South-East Asian nation’s monarch, Norodom Sihamoni.
- by Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook
Updated
Australia votes
Independents fight for survival as Sydney’s election battlelines redrawn
The draft redistribution for NSW seats would scrap the seat of North Sydney in a blow to independent Kylea Tink, while radically changing several others.
- by David Crowe and Paul Sakkal
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