The man most associated with teal candidates says he doesn’t know what the definition of a “teal” is.
Inspired by 2022’s teal wave,community independent campaigns are building momentum across the country in lead up to the next federal election.
The “teal” independents and other crossbench MPs have called for negative gearing to be on the agenda in a total rethink of tax and housing policy.
Dutton holds his seat of Dickson by a thin 1.7 per cent margin from Labor,which could get a leg-up from teal candidate preferences.
After more than a decade with Tabcorp,endurance swimmer Jaimee Rogers has lodged her nomination forms with the Liberal Party intending to win back the blue-ribbon electorate.
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?
When Zali Steggall calls out Dutton’s racist rants,she is the one in the wrong. When Steggall is goaded and responds she is blamed,all under parliamentary privilege. It’s absurdist theatre at times and often childish and inappropriate.
The teals want to raise the tone of debate,but they get the lowest political Scrabble score with the word “racist”.
The teals are inviting us to see the cacophony as something else – stupid,harmful to social civility and,above all,unnecessary.
Kylea Tink said she will explore the possibility of making a complaint about Coalition MPs sending out electronic direct mail that she said is “inflammatory”.
The teal MP said she did not regret telling Dutton in parliament to “stop being racist”,but shifted her language to focus on his policy of banning Palestinian refugees from the country.