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Pat Cummins has become the first outside investor with Mountain Culture Beer Co.

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Former NSW RSL president James Brown has been preselected to run for the Liberals for the federal seat of Mackellar

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.

  • Michael McGowan and Alexandra Smith
Climate 200 founder Simon Holmes à Court.

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.

  • Peter FitzSimons
Sophies Stokes with her husband Rob and Mackellar teal independent Sophie Scamps.

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.

  • Alexandra Smith
Independent MPs Allegra Spender, Zali Steggall, Sophie Scamps, Zoe Daniel and Monique Ryan all back tax reform, including changes to negative gearing.

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.

  • David Crowe
Teal independent MPs composite index image. Monique Ryan, Kate Chaney, Zali Steggall, Allegra Spender, Sophie Scamps, Zoe Daniel and Kylea Tink.

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?

  • James Massola
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Sibling bribery

It’s the price of healthy competition.

George Brandis

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).

Teal independents (from left) Sophie Scamps, Zali Steggall and Kylea Tink.

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”.

  • Parnell Palme McGuinness
Member for North Sydney Kylea Tink on Friday.

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.

  • David Crowe and Paul Sakkal

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