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Domestic Violence Commissions Proposals by the Government and Labor

November 24, 2021
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The federal government and the opposition have both promised to create a commissioner to oversee the prevention of domestic violence against women and children. The Coalition will spend $22.4 million (US$16.1 million) over the next five years on a commission to look at domestic, family and sexual violence under the next national plan to protect…

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Lessons From Merkel’s Failed ‘Teal’ Electoral Strategy

October 11, 2021
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Commentary Politicians who aspire to lead their centre-right parties into the deep left might first consider the electoral cataclysm that has taken place in Germany over the past six years. Departing German Chancellor Angela Merkel has left her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party a husk of its previous heights in 2013 when it fell just…

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Morrison Government Faced With Choice Between the City or the Country

September 30, 2021
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Commentary The current Liberal-National Coalition government is faced with two competing electoral strategies ahead of a likely election in the early months of the new year. They can continue with the “teal strategy” of pursuing inner-city seats by moving closer to the Greens party on climate policy, or they can return to the “heartland strategy”…

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Right-Leaning Splinter Parties Could Hand Labor-Greens Government: Former Prime Minister

August 20, 2021
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Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott has warned frustrated conservative voters not to give up on the Coalition (Liberals or Nationals) for newer right-leaning parties, saying it would simply fracture the centre-right vote and hand government to the Labor and Greens parties. Abbott also said Australia’s preferential voting system made it difficult for a dark horse…

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Former Aussie MP Quits Over Governments Support of COVID Restrictions, Joins New Party

July 26, 2021
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Former Liberal Party MP, and ex-Sky News commentator, Ross Cameron has joined the Liberal Democrat Party, citing disappointment with the governing Coalition and its support of using lockdowns to tackle the CCP virus in Australia. His announcement follows the decisions of fellow Liberal Party members John Ruddick and Campbell Newman to quit the party. Cameron,…

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