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Clive Palmer at a press conference last month.

Billionaires tried to buy this election. At least they’ve provided some much-needed comic relief

Palmer’s logo of a lion with Fabio-style tresses tooting a trumpet encapsulates the incoherent messaging we can expect when a billionaire gets involved in politics.

  • Melanie La'Brooy

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Trumpet of Patriots candidate Joseph O’Connor

Serial pest in sperm donor groups joins Clive Palmer’s colourful cast

A man who uses various aliases to troll sperm donation groups is standing for the Trumpet of Patriots.

  • Harriet Alexander
Malcolm and Lucy Turnbull.

Leaving on a jet plane: Turnbull skips the country in time to avoid election night

Malcolm Turnbull isn’t the only former PM who won’t be sprinkling their particular brand of stardust at election night parties.

  • Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese won’t commit to do anything to stop the text messages.

Albanese ‘happy’ to ban annoying texts, won’t commit to make it happen

Mining magnate Clive Palmer’s Trumpet of Patriots has been sending large volumes of texts, but the mainstream parties also have a history of using unsolicited messages.

  • Olivia Ireland and Sarah McPhee
Clive Palmer (left) and his candidates (from top centre clockwise) Suellen Wrightson, Todd Charles Juchau, Michael Norman Jessop, Gabrial Pennicott and David Sarikaya.

The prince, the pauper, perp and other Patriots in the Trumpet

One candidate was allegedly discovered with duct tape and a cadaver bag in his car. Another is a prince.

  • Harriet Alexander
A cut through image of politics for a generation glued to a much smaller screen.

Billboards vs content creators – the new frontier in election marketing

While some politicians are leveraging different mediums to reach new audiences ahead of the election, others are sticking with the signs of their times.

  • Courtney Kruk
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Clive Palmer at a press conference at Parliament House.

Teal independents to get an unlikely preference boost – from Clive Palmer

Clive Palmer’s Trumpet of Patriots party will put incumbent MPs last, threatening Liberal MPs in key electorates they are defending against independent challengers.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos and Paul Sakkal
The Seven Network has been dealing with staff underpayments.

Seven West Media grapples with underpayment scandal

The bad headlines are back for Seven West Media.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook
The Seven Network has been dealing with staff underpayments.

$25,000 short: Seven underpays journalists, then sells it as ‘good news’

So much for the end of the bad headlines for Seven. It’s now been revealed that it’s dealing with an underpayment controversy.

  • Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
Tim Wilson (second from right) posing with campaign staff.

Police mystery as Lib candidate cops a (primary) schooling in campaigning

It’s a case of claim and counterclaim over an election campaign effort outside a school. One side says there was an apology.

  • Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman

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