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Teals snared Liberal seats. Now Dutton’s surge could take them back

Three years ago, the Coalition returning to government in 2025 seemed utterly implausible. It is no longer unrealistic – and the teals know it.

  • David Crowe

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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
Gold Coast couple Leah Stacpoole and Malcolm Edgar were politically unaligned but concerned enough about the climate crisis to help set up a community-led tilt at the federal seat of McPherson. “We realised there was a real movement around Australia,” Stacpoole says.

Teals 2.0: ‘People are dying to express their dislike for the majors’

Inspired by 2022’s teal wave, community independent campaigns are building momentum across the country in lead up to the next federal election.

  • Brook Turner
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
Special Minister of State Don Farrell, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton and independent MP Zali Steggall.

Labor slams teals over spending as movement targets Dutton’s seat

Dutton holds his seat of Dickson by a thin 1.7 per cent margin from Labor, which could get a leg-up from teal candidate preferences.

  • Paul Sakkal
Jaimee Rogers has set her sights on taking on Zali Steggall in Warringah at the next federal election.

Revealed: The TV presenter looking to take on Zali Steggall in Warringah

After more than a decade with Tabcorp, endurance swimmer Jaimee Rogers has lodged her nomination forms with the Liberal Party intending to win back the blue-ribbon electorate.

  • Chris O'Keefe
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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
Zali Steggall

We’re not getting value for money from absurdist parliamentary theatre

When Zali Steggall calls out Dutton’s racist rants, she is the one in the wrong. When Steggall is goaded and responds she is blamed, all under parliamentary privilege. It’s absurdist theatre at times and often childish and inappropriate.

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
When asked about reports that Peter Dutton was seeking legal advice, Zali Steggall said it was “part of the playbook”.

Is ‘rip him a new one!’ really necessary for robust democratic debate?

The teals are inviting us to see the cacophony as something else – stupid, harmful to social civility and, above all, unnecessary.

  • Jacqueline Maley

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