If a future government wanted to block fast-tracked projects, it could trigger investor-state dispute settlement clauses built into existing trade agreements, with billions potentially at stake.
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Farrell and Albanese were long-time factional opponents. But under Albanese’s government, Farrell is prospering. With the thaw in China-Australia relations, it’s a very good time to be trade minister.
Palmer sued Western Australia’s government in the High Court and lost. But an obscure clause in a little-known trade agreement is giving him a second chance
The mine was not refused on climate change grounds. So without legal reform, other fossil fuel projects may still go ahead.
Among the more arresting figures are that Clive Palmer spent more than the Labor Party on the 2022 election, and for the first time since 2010, the party that had the biggest wallet didn’t win.
Here are four reasons their victory is so significant.
An expert on populism gives 6 reasons why these minor parties failed to gain electoral success.
Clive Palmer is running candidates all around the country and spending big. But so far, the United Australia Party vote is only around 4%.
The government used to set interest rates but it doesn’t anymore. If UAP really did try to deliver on an election promise to cap interest rates at 3% for five years, what would the consequences be?
Clive Palmer is back trying to win a Senate seat, while Jacqui Lambie is aiming to get a second senator elected.
New research shows a large percentage of Australians value “freedom” as the most important human right – but politicians need to offer a more sophisticated version of that ideal.
Clive Palmer says vaccines don’t work and Craig Kelly is among those misinterpreting statistics to suggest COVID vaccines are causing more deaths overseas.
The court said WA’s new law to prevent Palmer from collecting damages against the state was not unconstitutional. Here’s why.
It is likely in future we will see more, not less, unsolicited text messaging — and not just in politics.
The battle to exit COVID
Michelle Grattan discusses politics with politics + society editor, Amanda Dunn
Palmer’s anti-lockdown ads were not breaching any laws, so the decision about whether to run them become a purely ethical one. In the end, Nine has made the right decision.
The bill to give parties the right to veto newer parties using the same names is full of problems - and they are not mathematical, but linguistic.
Threatening that if you lose your business your workers won’t have jobs has been tried in the past by figures such as Alan Bond and Clive Palmer.
A good political donation disclosure system would close the loopholes that allow major donors to hide, while protecting the privacy of small donors.
Australia has its own populist tradition. Unlike the US, it is about protecting Australians from the outside world, not asserting their liberties.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor and Director of the Policy Innovation Hub, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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Deputy Program Director, Budgets and Government, Grattan Institute
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Professor Emerita in Constitutional Law, University of Sydney
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Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, TC Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor, Politics and Public Policy, Flinders University
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Executive Director, Public Policy Institute, Australian Catholic University
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Research Manager and Doctoral Candidate, Centre for the Study of Australian Politics, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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CEO, Climateworks Centre
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Honorary lecturer, School of Social Sciences, UNSW Sydney
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Professor, School of Humanities and Social Inquiry, University of Wollongong
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Associate Professor, Australian Catholic University
