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The latest reshuffle of Queensland's electorates honours seven distinguished women from all over the state.
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| UpdatedFind out what the Queensland Redistribution Commission's proposed boundary changes mean for your electorate, and where the lines and names are changing.
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| UpdatedQueensland's politicians, including Environment Minister Steven Miles and Shadow Treasurer Scott Emerson, are scrambling to come to terms with proposed electorate boundary changes, only months from an expected election.
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| UpdatedThe battle lines for the next Queensland election are released, in what is the biggest redistribution of boundaries in decades.
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| UpdatedA Labor Party preselection fight looms for the seat of Florey in Adelaide, as Health Minister Jack Snelling tells long-serving MP Frances Bedford he will nominate in her seat.
Topics: states-and-territories, electoral-system, elections, government-and-politics, ingle-farm-5098, modbury-5092, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedThe introduction of four-year terms, four more seats and full preferential voting were the biggest changes in Queensland politics this year, state political reporter Chris O'Brien writes.
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| UpdatedAn unprecedented legal challenge is launched by the Labor Party against South Australia's redrawn state electoral boundaries.
Topics: states-and-territories, government-and-politics, electoral-system, elections, law-crime-and-justice, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedOne Nation leader Pauline Hanson announces 36 candidates who will stand at the next Queensland election, saying there are plans to announce more soon.
Topics: one-nation, political-parties, government-and-politics, electoral-system, elections, brisbane-4000, qld, australia
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Changes to Queensland's voting system pushed through by the Labor State Government may actually end up helping the LNP at the next election, political experts say,
Topics: elections, government-and-politics, electoral-system, alp, political-parties, liberal-national-party-queensland, qld
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| UpdatedThe Liberal Party's chances of winning the 2018 South Australian election have greatly improved after a boundary redistribution notionally handed the party two additional seats.
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The retirement of long-serving Liberal National Party MP Ian Rickuss will not make Lockyer more open to attack from One Nation than any other seat, Opposition Leader Tim Nicholls says.
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| UpdatedPapua New Guinea's government under fire for its plan to raise the cost of standing for parliament in next year's elections to 10,000 kina.
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| UpdatedABC election analyst Antony Green says a potential recount of the South Australian Senate vote could make life harder for Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-parliament, electoral-system, minor-parties, australia, sa
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A preselection showdown pitting Bill Shorten against the Transport Workers Union in the race to replace former Victorian senator Stephen Conroy appears to have been avoided, with the union withdrawing its male candidate.
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| UpdatedFormer NSW Labor powerbroker John Della Bosca says the two major political parties are locked in a funding arms race, and has called for drastic reform of political donations.
Topics: activism-and-lobbying, electoral-system, federal-parliament, state-parliament, alp, liberals
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Northern Tablelands MP Adam Marshall hits out at the NSW Electoral Commission for offering what he says is an overpriced, bloated and inefficient electoral system to local councils.
Topics: government-and-politics, elections, electoral-system, tamworth-2340, armidale-2350, nsw
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| UpdatedAustralia has only held three national plebiscites; its first a century ago divided the nation over the issue of military conscription.
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Plebiscite ballot paper for the national anthem
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| UpdatedCountry Liberal Party-authorised signs instructing voters to "just vote one" at Saturday's election are unlikely to help the party at the polls, experts say.
Topics: elections, electoral-system, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, nt, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedQueensland Opposition leader Tim Nicholls tip-toes through a political minefield after the LNP indicated it would preference One Nation ahead of Labor at the next election.
Topics: liberal-national-party-queensland, political-parties, government-and-politics, one-nation, electoral-system, brisbane-4000, qld, australia