Malcolm Turnbull says Australians want parliament to end the ‘juvenile theatrics and gotcha moments’.
Historically, the CFA was a voluntary organisation. But with increasing urbanisation, there are pressures to increase the number of career firefighters.
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Malcolm Turnbull is using Victoria’s long-running enterprise bargaining dispute between the CFA and firefighters’ union to highlight the Liberals’ credentials to challenge union militancy.
Bill Shorten poses for yet another selfie, ready to be uploaded onto social media.
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Fron Jackson-Webb, The Conversation; Michael Courts, The Conversation y Emil Jeyaratnam, The Conversation
Before Australians go to vote on Saturday, The Conversation’s editors have assembled a guide to 11 key policy areas that could swing the vote.
With voters increasingly disillusioned with the two major parties, microparties such as those led by Jacqui Lambie and Nick Xenophon will play a bigger role.
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By continuing to see policies that affect women in economic rather than social terms, both major parties are offering little in the way of improved gender equity.
A Galaxy poll published in the Sunday Telegraph suggested Bill Shorten would have been elected with a large majority if up against Tony Abbott.
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Malcolm Turnbull is overwhelmingly more trusted than Bill Shorten to lead the country in the final round of Indi focus group research among ‘soft’ voters in the seat.
Was Malcolm Turnbull right about jobs and women?
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The government’s potential strength and Labor’s vulnerability were on mutual display on Sunday as, after seven gruelling weeks, the campaign entered its run to the finishing line. In these last days, with…
Malcolm Turnbull said the shockwaves of the past 48 hours were a sharp reminder of the volatility in the global economy.
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Malcolm Turnbull has warned voters of the need for stable government in uncertain times, in a pitch to counter Labor’s fear campaign and the temptation for electors to lodge a protest vote.
On the back of Labor’s election launch on Sunday, the party waged a Medicare scare campaign that has reverberated through the whole week.
Malcolm Turnbull’s criticism of Bill Shorten’s remarks on a treaty with Indigenous Australians reflects genuine anxiety that support for recognition is cooling.
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If we are to have a mature and sensible debate on Indigenous recognition, we must be more willing to embrace difficult issues and diverse perspectives.
Does the rest of the world care about Australia’s election?
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Experts in the UK, US, India, Indonesia and NZ explain how Australia’s election is playing out abroad and what’s at stake for our neighbours and allies.
Managing the same-sex marriage issue could be extremely difficult for Malcolm Turnbull after the election.
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The same-sex marriage debate, mostly at the margins of this campaign, has erupted between the parties and within the Liberals in a foretaste of the free-for-all a plebiscite would bring. Malcolm Turnbull…
Malcolm Turnbull is surrounded by Aboriginal dancers as he attends the Kenbi Native land claim ceremony near Darwin.
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Malcolm Turnbull is at his best when he can rise above the overtly partisan fray. So it was on Tuesday that he gave one of the most powerful speeches of his campaign, at a hand-back ceremony marking the…
Housing costs are driving poorer families into areas with fewer and fewer opportunities.
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The 2016 articulation of an urban agenda assumes building more highways, railways and trams will produce better, more productive cities that somehow give everyone a job.
In 2011 Malcolm Turnbull said federal Liberal Party members should be allowed to conduct a conscience vote on the issue of same-sex marriage.
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The posters are going out under Malcolm Turnbull’s signature “I guarantee Medicare stays”. The government is clearly alarmed that Bill Shorten’s Medicare scare campaign could take hold. But what, in the…
Malcolm Turnbull is facing many of the same obstacles as James Scullin but in a less extreme form.
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James Scullin’s prime ministership was ultimately cut short because, in the face of a great economic crisis, he did not appear to have a coherent plan.