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Independent member for Mackellar Sophie Scamps will announce a key policy announcement of a new scheme to subsidise household batteries - one of her top asks if she is in the balance of power in a hung parliament. Pictured at the residence of Avalon locals Ian and Michelle Millner, who have solar panels and two household batteries. Photographed Wednesday 12th March 2025. Photo: James Brickwood. SMH NEWS 250312

The campaign battle over the next step to cheaper power bills

Teal independent Sophie Scamps wants financial support to underwrite the cost of household batteries - and both major parties are working on it.

  • Mike Foley

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Teal MP Sophie Scamps.

‘Serious policy on the table’: Teal MP names her terms for support in a hung parliament

The Sydney doctor turned MP says she will support the party that avoids “sugar-hit” policies, even as she faces a battle with the Liberals to retain her seat.

  • David Crowe
The contest between Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton will take place in the shadow of Donald Trump.

Young men are drifting to Dutton. Will their mothers vote with them?

When young women supported the teals at the last federal election, some of their former Liberal-voting fathers swung behind them. Might mothers follow their sons’ lead this time?

  • Parnell Palme McGuinness
Pat Cummins becomes the first outside investor with Mountain Culture Beer Co.

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

  • Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
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
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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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