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Labor’s Adelaide conference reveals the perils of governing by accumulation
The ALP’s sprawling draft platform combines social objectives with an ever-expanding role for government, unions and regulators. Its accompanying fringe program travels further still, exposing the risk that Labor’s governing discipline will be overwhelmed by the ambitions of its activist constituency. When delegates assemble at the Adelaide Convention Centre on Thursday for the 50th Australian…
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Taylor distils Coalition agenda into four-part challenge to Labor and One Nation
The Opposition Leader has consolidated the Coalition’s emerging election platform around lower taxes, cheaper energy, reduced migration and an “Australians first” doctrine, while insisting political discontent need not culminate in institutional demolition. The federal Coalition has recast its developing election platform into four headline commitments, intensifying its attempt to convert economic discontent into support for…
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Taylor declares One Nation ‘not fit to govern’ as Coalition confronts polling squeeze
The Opposition Leader has intensified his attack on Pauline Hanson’s party, rejected recent remarks attributed to Senator Malcolm Roberts and declined to say whether he would counsel Liberal Senator Alex Antic. The Leader of the Opposition, the Hon Angus Taylor MP, has sharpened the Coalition’s confrontation with Pauline Hanson’s One Nation, declaring the ascendant minor…