Bill Shorten on Sunday announced a Labor government would freeze health premium increases to 2% in each of its first two years in office.
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The Coalition now trails 48-52% on the two-party vote – the best result for it since April last year.
Ged Kearney has been announced as Labor’s star candidate for the inner-Melbourne seat of Batman.
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As the fallout from the dual citizenship saga continues, the Greens and Labor are set to fight a close contest in Batman, while Nick Xenophon has work to do ahead of the South Australian election.
David Feeney confirmed he still could not produce the paperwork to demonstrate he had renounced his British citizenship.
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Labor MP David Feeney has quit parliament and triggered a byelection in the Victorian seat of Batman.
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2017 has felt like a chaotic year in Australian politics, and one in which policy progress has been swamped by other distractions. We can only hope that 2018 is calmer and more productive.
Malcolm Turnbull and John Alexander celebrate victory in the Bennelong byelection.
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John Alexander won the seat of Bennelong after a fiercely contested byelection, and declared it ‘the renaissance’ of Malcolm Turnbull’s leadership.
Despite the setbacks, Bill Shorten is still very well-placed compared with Malcolm Turnbull.
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It will be months before Labor will know what damage the citizenship crisis might do to it.
Barnaby Joyce received a rousing return to parliament today after the New England byelection.
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The opposition failed in an attempt to get a ‘job lot’ of MPs referred to the High Court.
Labor senator Katy Gallagher has been referred to the High Court over her possible dual citizenship status.
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That it has taken more than five months and a compulsory declaration procedure for some MPs’ dual citizenship issues to come to light reflects extremely badly on them.
Last year David Feeney beat Greens candidate Alex Bhathal for the Victorian seat of Batman by a whisker.
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If David Feeney was found to be ineligible, Labor would be at high risk of losing his Melbourne seat of Batman to the Greens.
Katy Gallagher says she will not refer herself to the court because her legal advice was that she had taken all the steps required of her before she nominated.
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Katy Gallagher is one of several Labor MPs likely to be referred to the High Court as the citizenship crisis turns on the opposition.
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Michelle Grattan speaks with Nicholas Klomp about the week in Australian politics.
Skye Kakoschke-Moore said she would ask that her case be referred to the High Court.
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Nick Xenophon Team senator Skye Kakoschke-Moore has resigned from parliament after being advised she is a British citizen via her mother.
Liberal candidate John Alexander has a fight on his hands to win the Sydney seat of Bennelong.
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The polls are showing a close contest in the Bennelong byelection between the Liberals’ John Alexander and Labor’s Kristina Keneally.
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Michelle Grattan and Nick Klomp discuss the week in politics.
Jacqui Lambie bids a tearful farewell in the Senate this week, after becoming the latest politician caught up in the dual citizenship saga.
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Changing the Constitution is the only way to draw a line under this chaos.
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Greens Jordon Steele-John on being an ‘accidental’ senator
New Greens senator Jordon Steele-John is the youngest person ever to sit in the Senate.
Jim Molan, the architect of the Coalition’s border policy, appears set to become a Liberal senator.
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Hollie Hughes was the next candidate on the Coalition joint ticket for the 2016 election and was set to get the position on the recount.
Malcolm Turnbull has dealt with the Bennelong byelection news from the Phillipines.
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If Kristina Keneally could wrest Bennelong once again for Labor, the opposition would inflict a massive blow on the Coalition.
Bill Shorten with Kristina Keneally after announcing she will be running for the seat of Bennelong.
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Labor is running high-profile former New South Wales premier Kristina Keneally in the December 16 Bennelong byelection.
A ministerial vacancy has opened with the elevation of Scott Ryan to the Senate presidency.
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The government has agreed to Labor’s December 1 deadline and tougher conditions in a deal on MPs citizenship disclosure.