Tag: Election
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Never mind Liberal v Labor – right now, it’s Big Gas v the rest
Australia is one of the world’s largest gas exporters. We send around 80 per cent of our gas overseas. More than half of the gas we export doesn’t even earn royalties or resources rent tax. We are literally giving away our gas resources. None of that has stopped the gas industry from trying to convince…
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Polls tilt towards Labor as campaign gets into full swing
Labor has surged ahead of the Coalition in polling, with primary support for the conservatives on a slump, as leaders begin crisscrossing the nation on the election campaign trail. A national Newspoll survey conducted for The Australian published on Sunday, has the Albanese government leading the Coalition 51 per cent to 49 per cent on…
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Albanese calls federal election for May 3
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has asked Governor-General Sam Mostyn to dissolve parliament and announced an election for May 3. Albanese visited Mostyn early on Friday, before announcing the election date at Parliament House. “In uncertain times, we cannot decide the challenges that we will face, but we can determine how we respond,” he said. “Our…
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Australia faces the prospect of a minority government – what will it look like?
After the election, Australia is likely to have a minority government with the independents, who will hold the balance of power, negotiating each issue on its merits. Democracy is best served if each independent politician states before the election which party they will support to form a government by guaranteeing supply. For months, opinion polls…
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Labor pledges biggest Medicare boost in over 40 years
Australians will have access to an extra 18 million bulk-billed general practitioner visits a year as part of a major election pledge from the federal government. The election date has yet to be announced but Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has promised a re-elected Labor government would spend $8.5 billion expanding bulk billing and training GPs…
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View from the Hill: Queensland’s lessons for Anthony Albanese, Peter Dutton and Adam Bandt’s band
Neither the Prime Minister nor the Opposition Leader will have missed the fact the actual campaign mattered. The new LNP government is headed to a comfortable majority but go back some time and Labor feared a wipeout. Initially, that prompted the replacement of Annastacia Palaszczuk with Steven Miles less than a year ago. Fast forward…
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LNP leader to be sworn in as Queensland interim premier
LNP leader David Crisafulli will take his first step toward becoming the next premier when he visits Government House on Monday. Crisafulli and his deputy Jarrod Bleijie will be sworn into interim leadership roles when they meet with Governor Jeannette Young. They will remain in the position until counting is finalised, with Labor’s outgoing premier…
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Never mind the ballot box, could this be the end of the democracy sausage?
More than one million Queenslanders have already cast their vote before Saturday’s poll, with the Liberal National Party aiming to end Labor’s nine-year reign. It represents more than a quarter of the Sunshine State’s 3.68 million eligible voters, eclipsing the number of early voters during the 2020 election amid the COVID-19 pandemic. An expert said…
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GREG HALLAM: Our last two conservative governments have been one and done – will this one be any different?
In the closing days of the 2024 State election campaign discussion has emerged as to whether a Crisafulli Government will go the way of the last two conservative state governments, gone after one term. Alternatively, that they parlay Saturday’s certain victory into a 2028 win, then get a bonus third term in the immediate afterglow…
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MADONNA FRIDAY : Why we’ll be voting with hope, not conviction, when Queensland gives government its marching orders
Twenty years ago, early on the morning of the 2004 State election, I confronted a stranger coming out of our bedroom. And that moment, when our eyes locked, is etched in my memory two decades later. His eyes, I later learnt, told the story of drug use. Mine were filled with fear. I remember turning…