Any appearance in the Queensland campaign by Malcolm Turnbull can be expected to be minimal.
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People distinguish between levels of government when casting their votes. Nevertheless, a state result can reverberate federally, whether it is sending a protest or for other reasons. We only have to remember…
Annastacia Palaszczuk is seeking a second term as premier when the state goes to the polls on November 25.
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Whichever major party ‘wins’ the Queensland election will likely be forced into tricky negotiations with minor parties to form government.
A client whose hair she had been cutting for 20 years came in as usual, and then, without any prompting or preamble, launched into a tirade against Muslims.
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In a suburban hair salon, a Muslim woman suddenly feels unwelcome in the country she has loved for 40 years.
The status of facts and their use in politics hasn’t changed as a result of Donald Trump’s election.
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In politics, alternative facts exist. And they always have.
The government on Wednesday finally clinched a deal with the crossbench Nick Xenophon Team.
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Under the government’s new rules, a company will be able to have TV, radio and print outlets in the same market.
Why are communities that need government’s help seemingly rejecting it on principle?
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Why are we increasingly seeing voters support candidates whose policies are, superficially at least, against their own interests?
Tony Abbott said he was a reluctant banner but says the burqa is an affront to the Australian way of life.
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Tony Abbott was commenting on a motion for a ban George Christensen will move when the Nationals’ federal conference meets this weekend.
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Michelle Grattan and Deep Saini discuss the week in politics.
Senators were shocked when Pauline Hanson appeared in the chamber shrouded in the voluminous black garment.
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Pauline Hanson’s stunt of wearing a burqa into the Senate on Thursday drew a swingeing attack from George Brandis.
Pauline Hanson’s support for media reforms requires increased scruntiny of public broadcasters.
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Pauline Hanson’s One Nation has won major measures to increase scrutiny of the ABC and potentially clip its wings.
Pauline Hanson said Malcolm Roberts has her full backing.
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Pauline Hanson is set to move that the High Court consider the eligibility of her One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts.
Surely, things were easier in the past.
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There has been much attention paid to the widespread resurgence of populism. Restorationism in Western democracies is a subset of this.
Malcolm Turnbull has reasserted this week that the Liberal Party needs to be in the ‘sensible centre’.
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While a lot of people just shrug impatiently at insider politics, a substantial number have turned to ‘outsider’ players.
Only one Australian suburb, Lakemba in Sydney, has a population that is more than half Muslim.
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Local neighbourhoods where Asians and Muslims form a majority are almost entirely concentrated in Australia’s two major cities – Sydney and Melbourne.
Pauline Hanson has made claims about the negative impacts of having children with autism in mainstream classrooms.
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Evidence shows that the senator’s comments on the burden of children with disability are misleading.
Floral tributes near an an anti-Islamic State poster near Borough market, London.
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National security is a more complex issue in the UK these days, after a decade and a half of unpopular wars and years punctuated by regular, deadly terrorist attacks.
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The University of Canberra’s Deep Saini and Michelle Grattan discuss the week in politics.
ASIO head Duncan Lewis set off a new round of debate when he told Pauline Hanson there was no link between terrorism and refugees.
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In an uncertain world, we have to accept and deal with modest dangers for the sake of the wider good, which includes fulfilling the obligations of a rich and privileged country.
The AFP is evaluating a recording in which Pauline Hanson’s adviser James Ashby suggests a a scam on taxpayers.
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Federal Labor is pushing hard on James Ashby. A prime motive is embarrassing the Coalition over preferences, ahead of the Queensland election, and the later federal one.
One Nation is in hot water over the leak of a secret recording that reveals James Ashby suggesting a plan to scam public funds.
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At an extraordinary news conference, Hanson staffer James Ashby admitted the revelation was ‘embarrassing’, adding that it was a ‘poor choice of words on my behalf’.