Zali Steggall
Opinion
Australia votes
Teals snared Liberal seats. Now Dutton’s surge could take them back
Three years ago, the Coalition returning to government in 2025 seemed utterly implausible. It is no longer unrealistic – and the teals know it.
- by David Crowe
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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
Teals 2.0: ‘People are dying to express their dislike for the majors’
Inspired by 2022’s teal wave, community independent campaigns are building momentum across the country in lead up to the next federal election.
- by Brook Turner
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
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Labor slams teals over spending as movement targets Dutton’s seat
Dutton holds his seat of Dickson by a thin 1.7 per cent margin from Labor, which could get a leg-up from teal candidate preferences.
- by Paul Sakkal
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Revealed: The TV presenter looking to take on Zali Steggall in Warringah
After more than a decade with Tabcorp, endurance swimmer Jaimee Rogers has lodged her nomination forms with the Liberal Party intending to win back the blue-ribbon electorate.
- by Chris O'Keefe
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’re not getting value for money from absurdist parliamentary theatre
When Zali Steggall calls out Dutton’s racist rants, she is the one in the wrong. When Steggall is goaded and responds she is blamed, all under parliamentary privilege. It’s absurdist theatre at times and often childish and inappropriate.
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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
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Parliament House
Is ‘rip him a new one!’ really necessary for robust democratic debate?
The teals are inviting us to see the cacophony as something else – stupid, harmful to social civility and, above all, unnecessary.
- by Jacqueline Maley
‘Unlike any workplace I’ve ever been in’: The push to punish MPs for bad behaviour
Kylea Tink said she will explore the possibility of making a complaint about Coalition MPs sending out electronic direct mail that she said is “inflammatory”.
- by Olivia Ireland
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