Nothing wrong with dual citizenship
"The answer is to be more careful before you nominate."
Andrew Clark writes on News specialising in National, World.
"The answer is to be more careful before you nominate."
A nasty spat at a closed door Liberal Party meeting last Friday showed just how high the stakes were in Tony Abbott's Plebiscite push.
Amid threats of mass defections, leading figures in the NSW Liberal Party's resurgent right-wing faction are confident they will secure support for the introduction of preselection plebiscites at a special convention this weekend.
The scent of blood, political paybacks, settling old scores, lust for power seem to have taken over the NSW Liberal Party.
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The Abbott-Turnbull imbroglio has not just stultified the government but stunted broader debate.
The levy announcements have revived memories of past attempts at bank nationalisation.
The PM needs to claim a few more wins before he can build a political recovery and avoid any more landmines along the way.
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Turnbull understands only too well that energy policy can be the modern killing fields of Australian politics.
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How Greg Lindsay went from being a maths teacher to starting a think tank in his Sydney garage.
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The Middle East, like the burnt out military equipment scattered throughout it, is littered with the wrecks of peace plans
Article11 of the US Constitution provides for Impeachment over acts of "treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanours".
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