Hostile environment:The changing climate within the Australian Greens

Hostile environment:The changing climate within the Australian Greens

A party with vaulting ambitions for grabbing hold of the balance of power with a big picture agenda has discovered the script has been hijacked from within.

  • byJames Massola

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NSW Liberal leader at war with Dutton-led takeover

NSW Liberal leader at war with Dutton-led takeover

Conservatives wrote to party members saying Mark Speakman had made “sad” claims and “issued a blatant challenge to the leadership of Peter Dutton”.

  • byPaul Sakkal andAlexandra Smith
Revealed:The secret timetable that could have stopped the NSW Liberals’ council fiasco
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Revealed:The secret timetable that could have stopped the NSW Liberals’ council fiasco

Secret documents reveal internal party squabbling slowed down a Liberal Party push to be organised ahead of the local government elections.

  • byMax Maddison
Henskens survives NSW Liberals’ crisis talks after text message revelations

Henskens survives NSW Liberals’ crisis talks after text message revelations

The decision to keep the shadow attorney-general on the frontbench came with the party engulfed in crisis over the failure to nominate 140 candidates in the September 14 council elections.

  • byMax Maddison
Two NSW Liberal MPs deny leaking against leader as fallout from council bungle grows

Two NSW Liberal MPs deny leaking against leader as fallout from council bungle grows

2GB shock jock outs two “cowardly” conservative Liberal MPs,Alister Henskens and Anthony Roberts,claiming the pair have been privately texting him to undermine Mark Speakman.

  • byMax Maddison
Minns has passed one big political test,now he faces another

Minns has passed one big political test,now he faces another

The annual NSW Labor state conference is often dominated by domestic policy,but events in the Middle East look set to overshadow this weekend’s gathering.

  • byAlexandra Smith
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Conservative Liberals will challenge for top Victorian party roles

Conservative Liberals will challenge for top Victorian party roles

Former MP Graham Watt,who refused to stand for family violence campaigner Rosie Batty when she addressed parliament,is aiming to be party president.

  • byAnnika Smethurst
Wagga Wagga boo-boo? Perhaps,but Speakman must defang yappy Nats
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Wagga Wagga boo-boo? Perhaps,but Speakman must defang yappy Nats

If the NSW Coalition can almost fall apart over a juvenile spat,the leader must take change and reassert his authority.

  • byAlexandra Smith
Exiled senator Payman advised by Ricky Muir’s former preference whisperer

Exiled senator Payman advised by Ricky Muir’s former preference whisperer

Rogue Labor senator Fatima Payman is being advised by controversial election strategist Glenn Druery.

  • byJames Massola andPaul Sakkal
Perrottet-brokered peace deal saves NSW Coalition from split

Perrottet-brokered peace deal saves NSW Coalition from split

A 96-hour civil war between the NSW Liberals and Nationals was resolved late on Monday night with negotiations brokered by former premier Dominic Perrottet.

  • byMax Maddison,Alexandra Smith andChristopher Harris
‘Exiled’ Payman defiant after PM tells her to consider her position as senator

‘Exiled’ Payman defiant after PM tells her to consider her position as senator

The prime minister and the young Muslim senator are at loggerheads as Payman says she has been told to resign.

  • byPaul Sakkal andJames Massola