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THE TRUTH ABOUT: 23 - Caught on Camera

Death in custody investigated – as it happened

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Here come the culture wars: can Queensland’s LNP resist wading into the ideological mire?

David Crisafulli’s small-target election campaign has created problems for how the LNP governs that are already beginning to show through

The Guardian - AU

View from The Hill: Coalition is being glued together again after crisis week

The Coalition is being glued together again, after a Liberal Party meeting on Friday gave the go ahead for Liberal leader Sussan Ley to negotiate with Nationals leader David Littleproud on the fine print of a settlement on policy.

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Afternoon Update: PM’s climate warning; Coalition on track to reunite; and New Zealand’s moose mystery

Albanese says extreme weather events such as the NSW floods are becoming more frequent and intense

The Guardian - AU

So, Are The Liberals & Nationals Getting Back Together After All?

Days after announcing they would be consciously uncoupling, the parties appear to be in talks of getting back together.

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Morning Mail: push to save Coalition, intense NSW rain heads south, Trump escalates war on Harvard

Liberal MPs appear set to accept the Nationals’ demands and reform their alliance; university ‘banned’ from taking international students

The Guardian - AU

Ditching the Liberals can put the grunt back into the Nationals – Australia’s rural party

Rural Australia holds the balance of power – if it wants to exercise it – in pretty much every parliament

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Grattan on Friday: if Ley and Littleproud find a way to cohabit, it will be a tense household

Remember that cliche about the Nationals tail wagging the Liberal dog? That tail wagged very vigorously this week, and smashed a lot of crockery, as it sought to bring Liberal leader Sussan Ley to heel.

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Afternoon Update: two Israeli embassy staff shot dead in US; Coalition tries to mend split; and a ruinous relationship with an undercover cop

Suspect in custody after being apprehended by security staff while entering a Washington DC Jewish museum

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Playing the crime card: do law and order campaigns win votes in Australia?

Crime and public safety are usually the domain of state politics. But the Coalition tried to elevate them as key issues for voters in the recent federal election.

The Conversation

NSW Nationals MPs criticise ‘distasteful’ move by federal counterparts

Fears split with Coalition will diminish party’s relevance and ability to advocate for rural communities

The Guardian - AU

View from The Hill: Coalition split puts Victorian and NSW Nationals Senate seats at high risk

The Victorian and NSW Nationals senators due to face the voters at the 2028 election will struggle to hold their seats if the former partners do not re-form the Coalition before then.

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Counts in Bradfield and Calwell become clearer, while Jacqui Lambie faces a possible problem in the Tasmanian Senate

Counting in several extremely close seats continues, but some results have become clearer. In Liberal-held Bradfield, Teal candidate Nicolette Boele has taken the lead, while the Calwell distribution of preferences indicates an independent is on track to pass the Liberals and benefit from their preferences against Labor. Meanwhile, Jacqui Lambie…

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After the Coalition’s very public split, I can only offer this time-honoured breakup advice: work on yourself

The Nationals say they’re doing this ‘for the right reasons’, and part of you has to respect that – provided it’s the part incapable of adding up numbers

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The fault line that opened up a Coalition chasm can be traced back decades

The four policy sticking points that broke up the Nationals and Liberals highlight their vastly different stances on privatisation

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Morning Mail: Liberals in turmoil after Coalition split, Sydney commuter chaos, UK condemns ‘monstrous’ Israel

Some senior Liberal figures think the party could be freed up to chase more urban voters; Britain halts trade talks and calls Gaza policy ‘repellent’

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Thousands isolated after heavy rainfall in New South Wales – as it happened

All the day’s news as it unfolded

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Senior Liberals fear Coalition split may damage party for years but others see silver lining

Reforming with Nationals could be very difficult once deep policy divergences set in and are openly debated, MPs say

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The band is breaking up: has the Coalition stopped making sense?

I remember seeing footage, several years ago, of a jubilant Malcolm Turnbull, then prime minister and Liberal leader, speaking in Tamworth to loyal members of the National Party. These were the rank and file who had spent weeks stumping for their man in New England, Nationals leader and deputy prime…

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Liberals and Nationals call it quits: what does the ‘monumental’ Coalition split mean for day-to-day politics?

The Nationals are now a minor party – here’s what’s changing, from question time allocations to salaries

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The Coalition is on a break, but the Nationals risk finding their former partner doesn’t want them back

In the weeks since the federal election, there’s been much speculation about the future of the Coalition agreement. In their soul-searching, it seemed possible the Liberals might pull the pin, given the degree of their electoral losses and their need to rebuild.

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The Nationals Have Left The Coalition For The First Time Since The 1980s — Here’s What It Means

What do all the Liberal-National break-up headlines really mean? We break it down.

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Follow the money: the organisations that spent the most on social media during the election

Social media advertising is an increasingly important frontier in election campaigns.

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David Littleproud cites nuclear energy disagreement as major factor in Coalition split

Nationals’ leader David Littleproud has singled out nuclear energy as a key reason for his party’s spectacular split from the Liberals, as both parties seek to rebuild following the Coalition’s devastating election loss.

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Nationals break the Coalition, in a major blow to Sussan Ley

The Nationals have broken the Coalition, for the first time in nearly four decades, because new Liberal leader Sussan Ley would not agree to their policy demands being part of a new agreement between the parties.

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