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Religious right roadmap to Liberal Party control revealed as internal ructions over church groups increase

A roadmap outlining how the religious right can "infiltrate" the Liberal Party with "Good Godly" candidates has been linked to a controversial former Liberal candidate and current member of the party's state assembly in Victoria.

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Attacks on Dan Andrews are part of News Corporation's long abuse of power

Sane people trying to fathom the Herald Sun’s bizarre coverage of Victorian Premier Dan Andrews over the past few days might be helped by some insights from the founding of News Limited, the company on which Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation empire has been built and of which the Herald Sun…

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Michael Pascoe: Will NSW’s political parties put people before donors? Don’t bet on it

Will the NSW government get out from under the thumb of the gambling industry? Alan Kohler writes he's not betting on it.

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Candidates in the Victorian seat of Caulfield put forward their cases for election

The sitting Liberal MP in Caulfield, David Southwick, holds the seat by a razor thin margin and is facing a challenge from a teal independent backed by the Climate 200 body.

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Replace ‘ideology and idiocy’: Malcolm Turnbull denounces ‘unelectable’ Peter Dutton

Mr Turnbull delivered a full frontal attack on the leadership of Peter Dutton and the party’s rejection of renewable energy.

The New Daily

James Paterson’s cyber hard line undermined as website is overrun by bots

As James Paterson took a hard line on cyber security, he had not noticed the spammers selling viagra under his photo.

The New Daily

Prosecutor confirms Bruce Lehrmann to face retrial over alleged Brittany Higgins rape

It's confirmed that former Liberal Party staffer Bruce Lehrmann will face a retrial next year over the alleged rape of Brittany Higgins.

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WA Liberal Party president Richard Wilson quits 13 months into role

The beleaguered WA Liberal Party’s state president has resigned just 13 months into the role, amid a battle to reform the party following its comprehensive drubbing in the 2021 state election.

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South Australian Liberal Party members impacted by unauthorised access to personal information

Police have been asked to investigate after some personal information of about 2,000 SA Liberal Party members was accessed without authorisation.

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Investigation into Liberal Party donation site unlikely to be resolved before Victorian election

The Victorian Electoral Commission's efforts to probe a Liberal Party fundraising campaign are slowed by a legal challenge, delaying it until after the election.

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Why was the Lehrmann trial aborted and what happens next?

The trial of Bruce Lehrmann, accused of raping former Liberal Party staffer Brittany Higgins, has been aborted after a juror was found in possession of material that had not been presented as evidence, against the judge’s specific directions.

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'Very clear who was on trial': Higgins thanks supporters, Lehrmann 'disappointed'

The alleged rape victim and her accused assailant have reacted outside court to the declaration of a mistrial.

Newcastle Herald

Michael Pascoe: The budget without reply

Next Thursday the Sydney Liberal Party faithful are being invited to pay $880 a seat for lunch and to listen to a budget reply.

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Liberal party opposes Labor’s truth in political advertising and spending cap laws

Dispute between major parties in parliamentary inquiry sets up battle on electoral law before 2025 election

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Jim Chalmers says the Coalition is responsible for $1 trillion of debt in the federal budget. Is that correct?

Treasurer Jim Chalmers says the budget is "heaving with a trillion dollars in Liberal Party debt". Is that correct? RMIT ABC Fact Check investigates.

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NSW Transport Minister David Elliott hits out at party factions as he announces retirement

Transport Minister David Elliott takes aim at factional power within the Liberal party as he becomes the latest Coalition member to announce their resignation ahead of the 2023 state election.

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Independent candidates take on high-profile Liberals in Victorian state election, but can the 'teal wave' be recreated?

The success of "teal" independents in blue-ribbon federal seats has spurred another wave of community independents in Victoria. But without a federal Liberal government to campaign against, will the teals have as much success at the local level?

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Australia needs an honest conversation about tax and budgets – and Jim Chalmers is ready to talk

Jim Chalmers is a wily operator. Ahead of delivering his first budget next Tuesday, he has given himself room to do the things a treasurer needs to do.

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'Please send us more chips' Canadian lawmaker says in Taiwan

A Canadian lawmaker who represents an area in the country's main auto producing province said on Friday he had asked Taiwan to "please send us more chips" to help resolve an ongoing shortage that continues to snarl some production lines.

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Morrison's staff 'knew about alleged rape'

A former staffer has claimed he spoke to then prime minister Scott Morrison's office about Brittany Higgins' alleged sexual assault within two weeks.

ABC News

Liberal Party legal counsel quits as concerns raised over postal vote application forms

Chandra Lloyd quit as the secretariat's legal counsel after raising concerns about the way the party's Victorian election campaign was being run.

ABC News

Brittany Higgins unavailable as trial of Bruce Lehrmann enters second week

A jury has been told former Liberal Party staffer Brittany Higgins is unavailable in the trial of her former colleague Bruce Lehrmann.

The Conversation

The Liberal Party is in a dire state across Australia right now. That should worry us all

“The duty of an Opposition is to oppose” – attributed to Lord Randolph Churchill – is one of those quotations I remember seeing on exam papers in high school politics classes. It is true, but only half-true.

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Police clash with abortion protesters, as opposing rallies take to the streets of Melbourne

Police tried to hold opposing groups of abortion protesters apart in Melbourne. The anti-abortion march was led by ousted Liberal MP Bernie Finn, who called for the repeal of Victoria's abortion laws. At the pro-choice counter rally, protesters said they were fighting "for the lives of women".

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Wedged between the CPAC circus and the teals, will Peter Dutton wither or find a new way to live?

Could the Liberal party be co-opted by the rightwing fringe? It is structurally and institutionally weak after the May election loss

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