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| UpdatedWA Labor says it expects the Prime Minister will back down on a threat to prevent $1.2 billion in Perth Freight Link funding being diverted to the party's flagship transport project Metronet.
Topics: government-and-politics, political-parties, elections, wa
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| UpdatedAs the Barnett Government battles for a third term in office, Albert Jacob, John Day and Paul Miles face tough struggles to hold seats normally considered safe.
Topics: elections, political-parties, wa
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| UpdatedThe Liberals peddle their cycling policy, Labor talks up patient accommodation and the man behind a micro party preference deal gets paid as the second full week of the campaign winds up.
Topics: elections, political-parties, 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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| 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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| UpdatedGeorge Christensen reportedly threatens to quit the Coalition, citing Federal Government inaction in a dispute between a foreign-owned sugar mill and cane growers in his north Queensland electorate.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, liberal-national-party-queensland, liberals, political-parties, australia
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A good week for the crossbenchers, not so much for the government. Fran Kelly and Patricia Karvelas, hosts of the Party Room, choose their winners and losers.
Topics: turnbull-malcolm, political-parties, federal-government, government-and-politics, canberra-2600
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| UpdatedIt was back to the 1990s on the campaign trail as former leaders lent their support, while old tweets, solar subsidies and law and order also rated mentions.
Topics: elections, political-parties, solar-energy, prisons-and-punishment, wa
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Labor clears the path for Peter Malinauskas, seen by some as a potential future ALP leader, to switch houses at the next South Australian election, which is just over a year away.
Topics: states-and-territories, alp, political-parties, government-and-politics, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedThe South Australian Labor Party is set for more infighting over preselections, with a group of left-wing industrial unions backing their own candidate for a vacancy in the Upper House.
Topics: political-parties, parliament, state-parliament, states-and-territories, adelaide-5000
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| UpdatedPrime Minister Malcolm Turnbull accuses Opposition Leader Bill Shorten of having the "biggest glass jaw in Australian politics" during a Question Time stand-off. Follow live.
Topics: political-parties, government-and-politics, federal-government, parliament, federal-parliament, australia
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| UpdatedMicro-parties and preferences dominate discussion on the WA election campaign, with Pauline Hanson wading into the preference deal debate.
Topics: elections, political-parties, wa
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| UpdatedThe Barnett Government pledges to lift the payroll tax threshold for business to $900,000, claiming the change will boost jobs and save small businesses millions.
Topics: elections, political-parties, small-business, tax, wa
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Federal Liberal Party director Tony Nutt supports a ban on foreign donations provided it does not exclude dual citizens or companies with established business interests in Australia from the political process.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, political-parties, australia
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| UpdatedA call by a Tasmanian young Liberal supporter group to banish poker machines wins rare praise from an arch political rival — but also a distancing from the Liberal Party.
Topics: gambling, political-parties, tas
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| UpdatedRetired Government MP Jillian Skinner is thought to be missing in action by colleagues after failing to turn up to New South Wales Parliament today.
Topics: state-parliament, parliament, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, liberals, political-parties, north-sydney-2060
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| UpdatedPrime Minister Malcolm Turnbull accuses Labor of threatening crossbench senator Derryn Hinch after he supported the Government's key industrial relations bill.
Topics: government-and-politics, political-parties, federal-government, parliament, federal-parliament, australia
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| UpdatedThere has been no love lost between the political parties this Valentine's Day, with the campaign trail marked by digitally-altered photographs, public declarations of political "love" and thorny tax questions.
Topics: elections, political-parties, wa
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WA Premier Colin Barnett seeks to defend the Liberals' preference deal with One Nation by claiming Pauline Hanson's party holds less extreme views with "racial components" now than it did two decades ago.
Topics: government-and-politics, political-parties, elections, wa
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| UpdatedThe Fiji government has rejected a recent Amnesty International report alleging the use of torture by the security forces.
Topics: political-parties, government-and-politics, pacific, fiji
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Topics: political-parties, government-and-politics, federal-government, australia
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| UpdatedGreens senator Nick McKim launches a blistering attack on Labor and the Coalition, accusing them of playing politics with energy policy and climate change.
Topics: political-parties, government-and-politics, parliament, federal-parliament, federal-government, australia
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| UpdatedThe Nick Xenophon Team says it will not support the Federal Government's package of changes to child care and welfare benefits, meaning the Coalition will have to negotiate with the Greens.
Topics: welfare, community-and-society, government-and-politics, political-parties, law-crime-and-justice, laws, australia
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Exiled Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy tells Beverley O'Connor he stepped down to save his party from dissolution.
Topics: world-politics, forms-of-government, political-parties, cambodia