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| UpdatedIt all began with a phone call from an old friend. Little did Rodger Muller know that it would change his life for three years, leading him to become the head of Gun Rights Australia and cosying up with America's powerful National Rifle Association.
Topics: journalism, world-politics, one-nation, crime-prevention, crime, foreign-affairs, politics-and-government, australia, united-states
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| UpdatedSome of the biggest swings away from Labor in the 2019 Federal Election were in Queensland.
Topics: elections, government-and-politics, federal-election, alp, greens, liberal-national-party, liberals, minor-parties, nationals, one-nation, australia
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| UpdatedEven the Prime Minister Scott Morrison sees Saturday night's election victory for the coalition as something of a miracle, saying it's thanks to quiet Australians with dreams and aspirations of getting ahead.
Topics: federal-election, government-and-politics, elections, alp, greens, liberal-national-party, liberals, minor-parties, nationals, one-nation, australia
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Pauline Hanson has tweeted footage of her campaign truck on fire in Tasmania as she was noticeably absent during election voting. The truck was parked outside a shop while the One nation candidate was buying groceries. “Someone was seen torching it before fleeing,” Ms Hanson said.
Topics: political-parties, fires, federal-election, government-and-politics, one-nation, pauline-hanson, tas
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| UpdatedMore than 80 per cent of Australians want the Government to take more action on climate change. That's 20 percentage points higher than in 2013.
Topics: federal-elections, emissions-trading, environment, alternative-energy, climate-change, environmental-technology, federal-government, alp, greens, liberal-national-party, liberals, nationals, one-nation, australia
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| UpdatedFranking credits have been one of the most hotly contested issues of the election campaign. Vote Compass data shows voters largely fall in line with the policy of the party they support.
Topics: federal-elections, greens, liberal-national-party, liberals, nationals, one-nation, australia
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| UpdatedOne Nation's Mark Latham unleashes on "leftist elites", expresses his love for gay people and defends Israel Folau in his maiden speech to the NSW Parliament with references to Monty Python and George Orwell.
Topics: states-and-territories, state-parliament, one-nation, nsw
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| UpdatedAs part of the You Ask, We Answer project, we were asked how many millennial candidates were running in this federal election.
Topics: federal-elections, youth, greens, liberals, liberal-national-party, alp, one-nation, political-parties, australia, perth-6000, sydney-2000, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedWhen it comes to social issues, nothing unites Australian voters quite like the topic of voluntary euthanasia, according to the ABC's Vote Compass. But others issues continue to divide Australians.
Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, ethics, euthanasia, lgbt, welfare, primary-schools, federal-election, federal-elections, greens, liberal-national-party, liberals, nationals, one-nation, republic, australia
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| UpdatedThe re-emergence of Clive Palmer as a political force could pose a threat to One Nation this election.
Topics: government-and-politics, one-nation, australia
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Despite One Nation being in the headlines for all the wrong reasons over the past month, at least one candidate still thinks the party can match or even surpass its result from 2016, when it picked up four senate seats.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-elections, one-nation, minor-parties, australia
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A majority of voters would like to see Sunday penalty rates restored and the minimum wage raised, Vote Compass data shows.
Topics: federal-election, federal-elections, alp, greens, liberal-national-party, liberals, nationals, one-nation, unions, industrial-relations, australia
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| UpdatedThere's an iron clad law in election campaigns: your past behaviour will come back to bite you. Several candidates from Labor, the Liberal Party and One Nation learnt that the hard way this week. Satirist Mark Humphries meets the resignation consultant to whom disgraced politicians turn when their past misdeeds become public.
Topics: government-and-politics, comedy-humour, federal-elections, federal-parliament, alp, liberals, one-nation, australia
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| UpdatedOne Nation Senate candidate Malcolm Roberts angrily defends Far North Queensland candidate Ross Macdonald and says he will not be standing down over photographs of him groping the breast of a "ladyboy" in Thailand.
Topics: one-nation, federal-elections, cairns-4870, brisbane-4000, qld
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| UpdatedAustralian women are in favour of gender rules to get more female MPs elected, efforts to boost wages in female-dominated industries and better access to abortion services.
Topics: federal-election, children---preschoolers, women, access-to-education, preschool, federal-elections, greens, liberal-national-party, one-nation, alp, abortion, australia
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| UpdatedLabor is calling for Prime Minister Scott Morrison to sack Liberal candidate Jeremy Hearn after a recent social media post surfaced that revealed controversial opinions he now says are "not right".
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-elections, one-nation, pauline-hanson, alp, liberals, liberal-national-party, nationals, bill-shorten, scott-morrison, australia, melbourne-3000, vic, mentone-3194, mordialloc-3195, keysborough-3173, dandenong-3175
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One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has defended herself and her party in the wake of her Senate candidate Steve Dickson's resignation.
Topics: pauline-hanson, one-nation, federal-election, australia
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| UpdatedA tearful Pauline Hanson says the strip club scandal involving former One Nation Senate candidate Steve Dickson has been used to unfairly attack her political party.
Topics: pauline-hanson, one-nation, government-and-politics, federal-elections, australia, united-states
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| UpdatedDay 19 of the federal election campaign ends with the Prime Minister distancing himself from the National Party's approach to dealing with Pauline Hanson's party.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-elections, one-nation, pauline-hanson, alp, liberals, liberal-national-party, nationals, bill-shorten, scott-morrison, australia
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| UpdatedI can only imagine the collective eye-roll of Australian sex industry workers on Tuesday morning as we woke to the coverage of Steve Dickson's "strip club scandal", writes Gala Vanting.
Topics: one-nation, work, workplace, pauline-hanson, community-and-society, sexuality, sexual-offences
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| UpdatedQueensland One Nation leader Steve Dickson has created something of a historic moment by quitting the party before election to public office, rather than after as has become traditional, writes Annabel Crabb.
Topics: one-nation, pauline-hanson, federal-elections, federal-parliament, political-parties, government-and-politics, australia
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Steve Dickson was caught on hidden camera at a US strip club.
Topics: pauline-hanson, minor-parties, one-nation, government-and-politics, australia
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| UpdatedOne Nation Senate candidate for Queensland Steve Dickson resigns after footage is released of him making derogatory comments and touching a dancer in a US strip club.
Topics: government-and-politics, one-nation, political-parties, federal-parliament, australia, united-states, maroochydore-4558, brisbane-4000, qld
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The voters of Australia don't always agree with the immigration policies of the party they support. Though there's one clear exception.
Topics: immigration, refugees, multiculturalism, population-and-demographics, federal-election, federal-elections, immigration-policy, greens, alp, liberal-national-party, one-nation, australia
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| UpdatedOne Nation leader Pauline Hanson is touring regional South Australia this week to promote two local candidates, prompting a warning from Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young for voters to be aware of her "toxic politics".
Topics: government-and-politics, politics-and-government, elections, federal-elections, federal---state-issues, federal-government, political-parties, greens, one-nation, pauline-hanson, alternative-energy, sarah-hanson-young, adelaide-5000, sa, australia, nsw