Come election time, votes won’t turn on an integrity commission. They will turn on such issues as cost of living, discontent with flat wages, and health.
The National Integrity Commission was the specific announcement in Bill Shorten’s Tuesday National Press Club address.
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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’s excitement, no doubt fuelled by relief, at the Bennelong byelection win was obvious.
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The win in Saturday’s byelection was a crucial fillip for Malcolm Turnbull, who has finished a rocky year on a relative high – one he will hope continues into the new year.
Malcolm Turnbull and John Alexander celebrate victory in the Bennelong byelection.
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The Sam Dastyari episode underscores the need for clear-cut rules to prevent those with links to foreign governments from using money to influence the political process.
Sam Dastyari has been forced to resign as Labor’s deputy Senate whip.
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Malcolm Turnbull’s cancellation of next week’s House of Representatives sitting has been received sceptically by Queensland ‘soft’ voters, but they still prefer him over Bill Shorten.
Supporters of same-sex marriage in Melbourne celebrate the ‘yes’ result.
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Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten are inching toward an agreement on the form of a citizenship declaration that each MP would have to make within weeks.
Bill Shorten has said Labor would support a ‘universal disclosure to the parliament’ on citizenship.
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Labor has been on a unity ticket with the Coalition in opposing an audit, but as the crisis continues to unfold it has moved to a position that falls short of bringing in an outside auditor.
Michaelia Cash wrote a letter on Thursday asking the Registered Organisations Commission to refer the leak of the raids to the AFP.
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A senior staffer of Employment Minister Michaelia Cash was forced to quit after tipping off the media about police raids on the Australian Workers Union’s offices.
Bill Shorten said that the proposed fund would help local manufacturers innovate and diversify.
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Labor extends its crucial two-party preferred lead over the government, while in the marriage equality postal survey, the ‘yes’ case appears to be losing its advantage.
Senior Lecturer in Political Science: Research Fellow at the Cairns Institute; Research Associate for Centre for Policy Futures, University of Queensland, James Cook University