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Anti-Voice band back together as Price, Abbott back Warren Mundine for key seat
The one-time Labor Party president turned anti-Voice campaigner is running in one of the few seats that voted “yes” for the Indigenous body.
- by Paul Sakkal
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Where’s the good in Riverwood? Get a heart!
With the number of homeless aged people on the rise, how heartwarming it would have been if the residents of Hardwicke Street had put out the welcome mat.
Politicians from across the aisle farewell ‘man of conviction’ Kevin Andrews
Family, friends and former prime ministers have gathered to farewell Liberal Party stalwart and former defence minister Kevin Andrews at a state funeral in Melbourne.
- by Holly Hales
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Liberal Party
Pesutto’s leadership hanging by a thread after deadlocked Deeming vote
John Pesutto has been given 24 hours to stand down or face a leadership challenge after the narrow vote on allowing Moira Deeming back into the party room cost him support from key backers.
- by Rachel Eddie, Kieran Rooney and Chip Le Grand
Howard, Abbott mooted as Deeming peacemakers in abandoned deal
Previously undisclosed details of John Pesutto’s settlement plan will be weighed by Liberal MPs as they prepare for Friday’s vote on Moira Deeming’s return.
- by Chip Le Grand
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Faith and conviction: Tributes flow for late Liberal minister Kevin Andrews
The former defence and immigration minister and longest continuously serving member of federal parliament has died at 69 after a year-long cancer battle.
- by Ashleigh McMillan
Voters laboring under gutless government
Ross Gittins may well bemoan the “era of gutless government”, but perhaps he should direct his criticism to the people responsible, the electors of Australia.
Protests to go on ‘until liberation’, say pro-Palestinian rally organisers
Melbourne’s 61st consecutive pro-Palestinian protest has taken place as the state government mulls changes to protest laws.
- by Michael Bachelard and Carla Jaeger
Liberal MPs get advice to deal with gatecrashing neo-Nazis
Security experts have been called in to coach opposition MPs on how to deal with the spectre of right-wing extremists hijacking Liberal Party events.
- by Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
Opinion
Australia votes
Demonising Dutton will backfire for Labor, just as it did for Harris with Trump
I expect Anthony Albanese’s Labor will do it just the same, all the way until Peter Dutton is elected.
- by George Brandis
Power out for Birmingham as he turns out the lights
The resignation of the last leading Liberal moderate, Simon Birmingham, means that it is definitely a case of asking Simon to turn off the lights in the house when he leaves.
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