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Sloganeering has always been integral to elections, but this kind of messaging risks adding to the problem of voter disengagement.
The overhaul of the program comes after pressure from various quarters including conservative Liberals for immigration to be lowered, and the government talking up the need for ‘congestion busting’.
Whether they form the next government or not, the Liberals need to reconsider their reliance on neoliberal economics, which may no longer be serving the party – or the country.
University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor Deep Saini and Michelle Grattan talk about the week in politics.
The exit of Bishop underlines the Liberals’ “woman problem”.
It comes after the decision by cabinet minister Kelly O'Dwyer to leave at the election.
Deep Saini speaks with Michelle Grattan about the week in Australian politics.
The former head of the government’s Clean
Energy Finance Corporation is expected to run against Treasurer Josh Frydenberg in the heartland Liberal seat of Kooyong.
The departure of Liberal women is a sign that they have always been outsiders within the party, and by world standards the gender imbalance is stark and woefully out of touch.
The Prime Minister’s reaction to Kelly O'Dwyer’s decision says much about the Coalition’s attitude to women.
The minister for women’s decision to walk away is appalling timing, and the government’s most popular woman might follow suit.
In the final sitting week for the year, the encryption bill was finally passed, and the Liberal Party changed its rules to prevent sitting prime ministers being toppled.
Star basketball players are suffering the fallout from a race scare campaign by politicians from the Liberal party over crimes committed by a small number of young people who came to Australia from South Sudan
Morrison described the rule change as historic and the biggest in the
74 years of the party’s history.
The right is strong within the
party. And with the Morrison government now dealing with a hung parliament, there has been a risk that a disendorsed Kelly could defect to the
crossbench.
Kelly has threatened to run as an independent if he loses preselection and also at times has left the way open to go to the crossbench.
Michelle Grattan speaks to Deep Saini about the week in Australian politics.
While the Liberals are losing out
politically because of their low female representation and inability to properly address the problem, on the crossbench the women are now standouts (and a majority).
Malcolm Turnbull has struck back angrily at a report that he has been helping independent Kerryn Phelps, his successor in Wentworth, as chaos continues to fracture the Liberals.
Josh Frydenberg on the Liberal troubles
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Frydenberg reiterates that the Liberal party is still a "broad church" and says he isn't concerned about other MPs like Craig Kelly following Banks' suit.
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