Splits, fusions and evolutions: how Australia’s political parties took hold
In an extract from The Conversation’s new book on democracy, we chart the origins of the parties that dominate politics today ...
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A former Miss America takes her nuclear sales pitch to audiences in Australia
Nuclear engineer and former Miss America Grace Stanke has entered the fierce debate in Australia over its future energy ...
ABC News (AU) on MSN1d
Health dominates state election campaign as Labor mirrors Liberal policies
It's been another day of health announcements dominating the state election campaign... with Labor following the Liberals' lead on some policies. The Greens have launched their upper-house campaign ...
Western Australia calls election in test for Albanese before national vote
The state of Western Australia has called an election, setting the stage for a final test for Australian Prime Minister ...
The Australian Financial Review13d
Why the WA Liberal leader thinks her state prefers Dutton to ScoMo
West Australian Liberal leader Libby Mettam on the steps ... Albanese government policies including the ban on live sheep exports and the twice-revived, twice-terminated Nature Positive ...
WA State Election: How much ‘respectability’ WA Liberal Party can win back is big question of election
The campaign for the Western Australian election is now under way, with the state Liberal Party fighting to win back “electorate respectability” after it was almost obliterated in 2021.
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Australia’s Labor Party Must Return to Working-Class Values
Australian Labor Party (ALP) senator Doug Cameron summed up his eleven-year senate career with characteristic candor. “It all comes down to one thing: socialism,” he said. Cameron’s words — and the ...
The Spectator Australia13d
Australia’s founders understood MAGA better than today’s centre-right
The Australia Day debating season has now finally, mercifully, come to an end for another year. It is clear the right and ...
The Australian4d
Libby Mettam: WA Liberal leader has a mountain to climb
“While this government have had the luxury of being able to pull any policy lever ... people of Western Australia on those key areas that really matter,” she said. The Liberal campaign has ...
Macquarie becomes first Australian bank to exit Net Zero Banking Alliance
Macquarie Group has withdrawn from the world’s largest climate banking alliance, making it the first major Australian ...
The Australian Financial Review6d
Liberal Party is yet to heed the message sent in Werribee
The Liberal candidate in ... or for improving Australia’s cellar-dwelling productivity performance. Its only formally announced policies – to establish a government-owned corporation to ...