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Kylea Tink
Independents fight for survival as Sydney’s election battlelines redrawn
The draft redistribution for NSW seats would scrap the seat of North Sydney in a blow to independent Kylea Tink, while radically changing several others.
- by David Crowe and Paul Sakkal
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Opinion
They can work, drive and graduate. But teenagers want something more
Politicians can only ignore young voters for so long. Eventually, they’ll reach the ballot box, and they’ll remember who stood in their way.
- by Daniel Cash
Analysis
Political leadership
If not now, when? Frydenberg now bets on a distant future
The former treasurer has no realistic way to contest the next election. Could he try for Kooyong later? The truth is that nobody gets a smooth elevation to the top.
- by David Crowe
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Political leadership
Labor faces battle for key seats under boundary redraw
Labor faces losing the Melbourne seat of Higgins and tough contests in two others under a proposed revamp of Victoria’s electoral boundaries, but may gain ground in WA.
- by Shane Wright and David Crowe
Government urged to ban AI-generated election materials
There are fears deepfakes of Anthony Albanese or Peter Dutton could be used to spread misinformation ahead of the next federal election.
- by David Swan
Liberals’ star WA candidate pulls out of race for Tangney after family ‘medical episode’
The former reality TV star is withdrawing from the race after a close family member suffered a serious medical episode requiring intensive medical care in Melbourne.
- by Michael Genovese and Hamish Hastie
Bet your house on it: The issues Dutton wants as election battlegrounds
The opposition leader seems utterly sure of his power to drive Albanese out of office. Too sure, perhaps.
- by David Crowe
Dutton pledges to slash permanent migration to 140,000 a year
In his budget reply speech, the opposition leader intensified a political fight over housing and congestion by vowing to drive permanent migration below Labor’s target.
- by David Crowe
Opinion
Political leadership
The narratives cloaking ‘weak’ Albanese and ‘nasty’ Dutton are setting like cement
Sensible women and men have had more than enough. They also have plenty of alternatives come the next election if they still feel that the current crop of national leaders is failing them.
- by Niki Savva
Analysis
Political leadership
Sliding to a crisis: These numbers show Labor cannot win on the vibe
The old assumption about a Labor victory at the next election is well and truly out of date. The government is clearly losing the fight to hold wavering voters.
- by David Crowe
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Melbourne
Zahid Safi was warned about the Liberals. Now, he is a candidate
The Afghan-born former refugee had only just arrived in Australia when he was told the man in a suit at his mosque was a candidate for the Liberals and they were against immigrants. A decade on, he wants to be the party’s first Muslim MP in federal parliament.
- by Annika Smethurst