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Topics: government-and-politics, electoral-system, federal-government, polls, federal-parliament, liberals, greens, minor-parties, federal-elections, canberra-2600, australia
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| UpdatedAngry micro parties are threatening to run a marginal seat campaign against the Federal Government if it goes ahead with Senate voting reforms.
Topics: federal-elections, electoral-system, federal-parliament, liberals, minor-parties, greens, australia
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| UpdatedSince his election in 2013, Clive Palmer and his Palmer United Party have gone from holding the Senate balance of power to becoming something of a short-term residence for political defectors. Election analyst Antony Green explores whether Palmer's glory days may be over.
Topics: clive-palmer, federal-government, parliament, federal-parliament, federal---state-issues, federal-elections, government-and-politics, federal-election, minor-parties, australia
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| UpdatedQueensland's minority government is told to urgently address the Katter's Australian Party's list of priority policies or face losing the minor party's support.
Topics: state-parliament, minor-parties, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedIndependent Queensland MP Billy Gordon says his seat of Cook in the state's far north needs a third electorate office.
Topics: state-parliament, alp, liberal-national-party-queensland, minor-parties, qld, brisbane-4000, mount-isa-4825, cairns-4870
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| UpdatedHost: Julia Baird. Panel: Ticky Fullerton; Graeme Innes and Sabine Wolff.
The panel discusses: the Government’s Murray Review response; Joe Hockey's resignation; anti-Islam political parties and tattoos.
Topics: consumer-finance, money-and-monetary-policy, hockey-joe, unions, minor-parties, multiculturalism, australia, india
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Federal independent Bob Katter condemns the major airlines for a spike in fares ahead of Sunday's NRL Grand Final between the Brisbane Broncos and the North Queensland Cowboys.
Topics: bob-katter, minor-parties, townsville-4810, cairns-4870
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| UpdatedMinor parties' preferences on how-to-vote cards could play a "crucial" role in who wins the Canning by-election, analyst says.
Topics: federal-elections, minor-parties, greens, wa, armadale-6112, pinjarra-6208, byford-6122
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Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan approves the make-up of the provisional cabinet that will run the country until November 1 elections, including for the first time two pro-Kurdish party MPs.
Topics: government-and-politics, minor-parties, unrest-conflict-and-war, turkey
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Turkey's prime minister vows a quick start to coalition talks after president Erdogan instructed him to form the new government.
Topics: world-politics, government-and-politics, minor-parties, turkey
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The former Independent for New England Tony Windsor says he's considering a return to politics after the Environment Minister Greg Hunt conditionally approved a mine in the Liverpool Valley in New South Wales.
Topics: government-and-politics, environment, mining-rural, mining-environmental-issues, minor-parties, nationals, liberals, australia
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Labor is divided over the possibility that a new Senate voting system stopping micro-parties "gaming the system" could ultimately give the Coalition more power.
Topics: electoral-system, federal-parliament, elections, federal-elections, political-parties, minor-parties, alp, liberal-national-party-queensland, liberals, nationals, greens, australia
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| UpdatedEmbattled member for Cook Billy Gordon delivers his maiden speech to Queensland Parliament, saying his life "does not make for the typical member".
Topics: state-parliament, alp, minor-parties, cairns-4870, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedNew laws mean Queensland's state politicians will now only get a pay rise when other public servants do.
Topics: state-parliament, minor-parties, liberal-national-party-queensland, alp, public-sector, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedFormer Labor MP-turned independent Billy Gordon votes with the Opposition for LNP's first win in Queensland's hung Parliament.
Topics: state-parliament, minor-parties, liberal-national-party-queensland, alp, public-sector, health-policy, brisbane-4000, cairns-4870
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The Australian Sex Party's Leader Fiona Patten fought for years to enter politics and finally became a member of the Victorian Parliament. She talks about the cornerstones of the party; sex, drugs and voluntary euthanasia.
Topics: government-and-politics, political-parties, minor-parties, programs-and-initiatives, social-policy, sexual-health, euthanasia, relationships, australia
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| UpdatedMedia should not cast judgement on embattled independent Queensland MP Billy Gordon, as he grew up in an Indigenous community where domestic violence is rife, MP Rob Katter says.
Topics: state-parliament, regional, minor-parties, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, community-development, mount-isa-4825, cairns-4870, qld, australia
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| UpdatedEmbattled MP Billy Gordon is expected to come under further scrutiny when Queensland MPs return to Parliament following a five-week break.
Topics: government-and-politics, state-parliament, liberal-national-party-queensland, alp, minor-parties, parliament, qld, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedFew of us actually vote for the minor parties, but more of us see their existence as a boon for democracy rather than a destabilising influence on the Senate crossbench.
Topics: federal-government, federal-parliament, minor-parties
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| UpdatedThe state member for Cook says he will "become a really effective member" of Parliament despite being absent from his electorate office for most of the past month.
Topics: government-and-politics, parliament, minor-parties, alp, state-parliament, qld, mareeba-4880, cairns-4870
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| UpdatedTasmania's recreational fishers are to launch a political party fielding senate candidates to lobby against the use of super trawlers in Australian waters.
Topics: minor-parties, fishing-aquaculture, tas
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| UpdatedNow that Billy Gordon MP has parted ways with Labor, it is unclear what will happen in the Queensland Parliament. He may stay on as an independent, or quit, sparking a by-election, with both scenarios bringing instability.
Topics: states-and-territories, state-parliament, liberal-national-party-queensland, alp, minor-parties, political-parties, government-and-politics, qld, cairns-4870
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| UpdatedA new corruption watchdog and a royal commission into coal seam gas are among the recommendations of a Senate inquiry into the former Queensland government.
Topics: public-sector, state-parliament, federal---state-issues, federal-parliament, liberal-national-party-queensland, alp, minor-parties, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedJohn Kaye, Fred Nile and Robert Borsak, three MPs who could share the balance of power in the NSW Upper House, could pose a major barrier to the Coalition's privatisation plans.
Topics: elections, states-and-territories, privatisation-and-deregulation, minor-parties, political-parties, greens, nsw, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedThe journalists' union and crossbench senators criticise a compromise aimed at protecting reporters' sources from the Federal Government's proposed metadata retention laws.
Topics: federal-government, greens, minor-parties, information-and-communication, journalism, bill-shorten, abbott-tony, australia