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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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The WA Liberal Party denies its surge in the polls is due to a preference deal with Pauline Hanson's One Nation, instead attributing the gain to a growing lack of faith in the Labor Party.
Topics: government-and-politics, elections, wa
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| UpdatedThe Barnett Government makes a pitch to the third of the state who fish, offering to create artificial reefs and invest more money boosting stocks if it wins re-election.
Topics: fish, elections, government-and-politics, rural, fishing-aquaculture, environment, wa
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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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| 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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| UpdatedPolitical casualties during the WA election campaign mount as social media posts and inappropriate behaviour continue to land candidates in hot water.
Topics: state-parliament, elections, social-media, perth-6000
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| UpdatedBoth major parties bring out retired, successful leaders to boost their image as they campaign ahead of the March state election.
Topics: elections, perth-6000
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Another week, another round of bluff and bluster in the halls of Parliament House. Are the Liberals cosying up with One Nation? Have the wheels fallen off the Omnibus? What do former politicians entitlements have to do with Nazi Germany? Matthew Doran and Stephen Dziedzic try to make sense of the week that was.
Topics: government-and-politics, elections, federal-elections, australia, parliament-house-2600
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| UpdatedIt's not uncommon to hear Papua New Guineans complain about their members of parliament and the lack of services they've delivered.
Topics: elections, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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| UpdatedWith the general election in Solomon Islands just over a year away, the Guadalcanal Provincial Council of Women is taking the initiative by working on strategies to get more female candidates into parliament.
Topics: elections, pacific, solomon-islands
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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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| 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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WA Premier Colin Barnett maintains his staunch defence of the Liberals preference deal with One Nation, while distancing himself from extreme comments of some of its candidates.
Topics: elections, minor-parties, gays-and-lesbians, wa
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Beverley O'Connor speaks to Professor Vedi Hadiz at the University of Melbourne's Asia Institute about the likely run-off election for Jakarta's next governor.
Topics: elections, religion-and-beliefs, indonesia
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The incumbent Governor of Jakarta, who is from the Christian minority, is expected to make it through to the next round of voting in the election, according to unofficial counts.
Topics: elections, world-politics, indonesia, asia
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| UpdatedA re-elected Barnett Government would take a hard line on reforming the public sector and launch a push towards privatising more services to help restore the budget to surplus, the WA Treasurer reveals.
Topics: elections, states-and-territories, state-parliament, perth-6000, wa
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Five micro parties strike a preference deal that could deliver as many as five Upper House seats in the WA election, with the pact orchestrated by "preference whisperer" Glenn Druery.
Topics: government-and-politics, elections, wa
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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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In Indonesia, millions of Jakartans will head to the polls to elect a new governor in what has become a bitter campaign revolving around religion and race.
Topics: elections, government-and-politics, world-politics, indonesia
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The State Library of Western Australia needs your help adding to its archives by donating the political advertising that comes through your letterbox during the election campaign.
Topics: history, library-museum-and-gallery, elections, human-interest, perth-6000
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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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| UpdatedVoting begins in Jakarta as millions of locals descend on makeshift polling booths to elect the capital's Governor after a highly charged and divisive campaign, during which the incumbent Ahok was tried on blasphemy charges.
Topics: elections, world-politics, government-and-politics, indonesia
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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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| 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