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The Liberals and Labor spent much of the week crunching and debating the financial figures — but it was that One Nation preference deal and Pauline Hanson's candidates who dominated much of the debate.
Topics: elections, states-and-territories, alp, liberals, one-nation, perth-6000, wa
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Pauline Hanson and her One Nation colleagues are asked to move their press conference from private property, February 17, 2017.
Topics: political-parties, government-and-politics, political-parties, one-nation, media, qld
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| UpdatedOne Nation leader Pauline Hanson and new Queensland recruit Steve Dickson are interrupted during a media conference at a Sunshine Coast shopping centre and told to leave the "private property".
Topics: government-and-politics, states-and-territories, one-nation, liberal-national-party-queensland, pauline-hanson, nambour-4560
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| UpdatedPauline Hanson and her One Nation colleagues are asked to move their press conference from private property, February 17, 2017.
Topics: political-parties, media, government-and-politics, one-nation, qld
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| UpdatedLabor and the Liberal Party both have problems beginning with the number 50, and in both instances, the number has more to do with political messaging than anything else, writes Andrew Probyn.
Topics: alp, political-parties, government-and-politics, liberals, one-nation, tax, emissions-trading, turnbull-malcolm, bill-shorten, australia
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| UpdatedDeputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce is predicting an early state election in Queensland.
Topics: government-and-politics, elections, liberal-national-party-queensland, alp, one-nation, nationals, qld
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| UpdatedThe former Labor leader and ambassador to the US says Pauline Hanson's One Nation is a threat to Australia's national security and prosperity.
Topics: federal-government, government-and-politics, federal---state-issues, states-and-territories, one-nation, world-politics, australia, wa
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| UpdatedPauline Hanson strikes back at One Nation's WA candidates who are complaining about a controversial preference deal with the Liberal Party, telling them if they're not happy with it, "don't stand under my name".
Topics: government-and-politics, elections, state-parliament, one-nation, states-and-territories, wa
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| UpdatedOne Nation candidates in the WA election are threatening to disobey their own party on the controversial preference deal struck with the Liberal Party.
Topics: government-and-politics, elections, state-parliament, one-nation, states-and-territories, bullying, wa
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| UpdatedAttorney-General George Brandis accuses Labor senator Penny Wong of having an "unhealthy obsession" with Pauline Hanson after she launched a fiery attack on One Nation.
Topics: one-nation, government-and-politics, political-parties, pauline-hanson, wa, australia
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| UpdatedThe success of the Liberal Party's preference deal with One Nation in WA could be determined by how many support staff are available to hand out how-to-vote cards on the day, a political analyst says.
Topics: elections, liberals, one-nation, polls, wa
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Federal frontbencher Arthur Sinodinos has entertained the possibility of the Liberal party entering into preference deals with the One Nation party.
Topics: political-parties, government-and-politics, one-nation, liberals, elections, australia
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| UpdatedAs Pauline Hanson and her party enjoy a resurgence, Liberal sources confirm the party will direct preferences to One Nation above the National party in the upcoming WA election.
Topics: political-parties, one-nation, liberals, elections, government-and-politics, australia
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The WA Greens say polling shows 33 per cent of Liberal voters will not support the party if it does a preferences deal with One Nation.
Topics: greens, one-nation, polls, government-and-politics, elections, liberals, wa
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| UpdatedThe Queensland Government talks up its jobs policies after a new opinion poll shows a surge in support for Pauline Hanson's One Nation in the state.
Topics: one-nation, political-parties, government-and-politics, alp, public-sector, elections, brisbane-4000, qld, australia
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| UpdatedOne Nation is taking on the WA election with a 20-year-old rookie candidate and a focus on jobs and the economy, not immigration.
Topics: elections, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, one-nation, baldivis-6171, wa
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WA Labor rules out a blanket preference deal with One Nation but appears to leave the door open to seat-by-seat deals once candidate nominations close later this week.
Topics: elections, political-parties, one-nation, alp, wa
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| UpdatedOne Nation scraps plans to fine any of its candidates who are elected at next month's WA election and then quit the party, following an outcry from members.
Topics: elections, political-parties, one-nation, wa
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| UpdatedWA Premier Colin Barnett is adamant he can rescue his Government from the brink of defeat to win a third term, amid polling showing Labor is on track for victory in the March election.
Topics: elections, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, one-nation, alp, liberals, wa, perth-6000
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| UpdatedWestern Australia's Deputy Premier brushes off the results of a poll showing the Barnett Government is on track to suffer a heavy loss in the upcoming state election and tipping One Nation to pick up 13 per cent of the primary vote.
Topics: elections, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, one-nation, alp, liberals
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| UpdatedLabor and Liberal parties label controversial comments about single mothers by a One Nation candidate as "offensive and rude", but decline to rule out striking a preference deal with the party ahead of the state election.
Topics: elections, alp, one-nation, states-and-territories, perth-6000, karratha-6714, wa
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Comments by a Western Australian One Nation candidate attacking "lazy" single mothers hark back to the pre-World War II era and are not acceptable, a peak national body says.
Topics: government-and-politics, one-nation, political-parties, port-hedland-6721, karratha-6714, wa
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| UpdatedFederal Labor frontbencher Anthony Albanese calls for one of Pauline Hanson's WA election candidates to be dumped for disparaging comments about single mothers.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, political-parties, family-and-children, one-nation, wa
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| UpdatedOne Nation's candidate for the seat of Pilbara in the West Australian election stands by an article he wrote saying taxpayers should not support single mums who are "too lazy" to attract and hold a mate.
Topics: one-nation, elections, karratha-6714, wa, perth-6000
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| UpdatedPauline Hanson's One Nation party secures its fourth LNP defector in Queensland, with former Logan MP Michael Pucci joining as state campaign director.
Topics: one-nation, liberal-national-party-queensland, pauline-hanson, logan-central-4114, qld, brisbane-4000