Teals furious as Coalition to wave through tough laws cutting campaign donations

Teals furious as Coalition to wave through tough laws cutting campaign donations

More than 10 crossbenchers united on Monday in parliament to condemn Labor’s handling of a major overhaul of Australia’s election system.

  • byPaul Sakkal

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Palmer plots High Court challenge as teals slam election funding overhaul

Palmer plots High Court challenge as teals slam election funding overhaul

Labor argues keeping United States-style mega-spending out of politics is a good thing for Australian democracy.

  • byPaul Sakkal
Kate Chaney on duty to family,falling into politics – and not putting up with crap

Kate Chaney on duty to family,falling into politics – and not putting up with crap

Kate Chaney talks about what her prominent West Australian political family taught her,and about being bold on climate policy in a mining town.

  • byJesinta Burton
The teals stunned the nation in 2022. They could make or break the next government

The teals stunned the nation in 2022. They could make or break the next government

The seven women who won formerly blue-ribbon Liberal seats in Melbourne,Sydney and Perth promised a “new way” of doing politics. How have they changed the parliament?

  • byJames Massola
Labor’s gas boost opens new front in crossbench election battle

Labor’s gas boost opens new front in crossbench election battle

Teal independents,the Greens and even Labor MPs are pushing back against the government’s gas plan as a Morrison-era rerun.

  • byMike Foley
Boxing has a blind spot when it comes to concussions

Boxing has a blind spot when it comes to concussions

The recent Tim Tszyu-Sebastian Fundora fight,much hyped by the media,developed into a bloodbath,serving only to prove that professional boxing on which so many promoters,agents and other hangers-on sponge livings,is a decadent activity.

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‘Banning big money,just not theirs’:Teal MPs accused of seeking to protect wealthy donors

‘Banning big money,just not theirs’:Teal MPs accused of seeking to protect wealthy donors

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and senior minister Don Farrell have turned their sights on a group of crossbenchers in a debate over big money in politics.

  • byPaul Sakkal
Big money to be taken out of politics in radical electoral overhaul

Big money to be taken out of politics in radical electoral overhaul

An individual,company or third-party activist group who could currently contribute an unlimited amount to a campaign will be outlawed from giving huge sums to parties.

  • byPaul Sakkal
Kate Chaney says Liberals haven’t learnt their lesson as she gears up for second election

Kate Chaney says Liberals haven’t learnt their lesson as she gears up for second election

Curtin independent MP Kate Chaney is confident the political winds that swept her and five colleagues in similar electorates across the country to power were part of an ongoing movement rather than a fleeting moment.

  • byHamish Hastie
Perth climate voters get MP on board with net-zero ‘vision for future’

Perth climate voters get MP on board with net-zero ‘vision for future’

The teal independent,who is glad to be free of “party ideologies”,says her constituents’ action and work will help her advocate for them at a federal level.

  • byHamish Hastie
Interchange makers:show us your workings

Interchange makers:show us your workings

In view of what has transpired,the NSW state government has to publish the traffic modelling that must have been done at the time the now-notorious Rozelle interchange was being designed.