Chinese ancestry-heavy aspirational seats break for Labor
Labor continues to be most attractive to cosmopolitan, high-migration, high-education voters whereas its message is not cutting through as much elsewhere.
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Labor ministers survive Muslim threat
A pro-Palestine political wave that had threatened to topple Labor in inner-city seats failed to materialise, with two ministers romping home.
Jewish leaders declare Greens suffered ‘electoral punishment’
Jewish groups have congratulated Labor on its win and welcomed the return of Jewish MPs, while celebrating rejection of the Greens and their ‘extreme and anti-Israel agenda’.
Buoyant unions to pressure Labor for increase in workers’ rights
Unions will press the Albanese government for policy action to lift workers’ living standards as they identified Peter Dutton’s unpopularity with voters and disastrous working from home policy backflip as key factors in the Coalition’s defeat.
Bandt in fight to hold seat in nightmare evening for Greens
The Greens have already lost two prized seats in Brisbane with Max Chandler-Mather and Stephen Bates losing out to Labor.
UniMelb tutor in anti-Israel slur claim
When a Jewish student left the classroom after the tutor allegedly accused Israel of genocide and apartheid, he brushed it off, saying it didn’t matter because the subject co-ordinators were ‘anti-Zionist’.
Dutton claims ‘life will be cheaper under Coalition government’; ‘Kept his word’: Assange endorses Albanese
Peter Dutton continues to hammer home cost of living messaging as Julian Assange praises Anthony Albanese for doing ‘more to secure my freedom than any other politician or public figure’.
‘Grossly biased’: Law lecturer wears anti-Dutton T-shirt
A UWA law lecturer on Tuesday donned a T-shirt that read ‘good morning to everyone except Peter Dutton’ and delivered a lecture on how it was ‘unfortunate’ the Greens were not a major party.
Coalition’s public service cuts would ‘focus on Canberra’, Chalmers slams costings ‘con-job’
Opposition public service spokeswoman Jane Hume says the Coalition’s public service cuts would reduce the headcount of the Australian Public Service by 41,000 in Canberra, as Treasurer Jim Chalmers labels the Coalition a ‘joke’ and ‘sham’.
Council uses permits to remove Lib posters
A council in the teal-held seat of Kooyong is using local permitting rules to remove Liberal Party campaign posters, sparking an accusation the council was imposing an ‘impermissible burden on constitutional freedom’.
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