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How a hardline ‘Trump-style’ Liberal immigration policy to ban migrants from Gaza and Somalia was developed

Another senior member of Sussan Ley’s team has expressed serious reservations about aspects of the plan

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Grattan on Friday: How did the Liberals’ first female leader find herself on the mat in under a year?

Sussan Ley always seemed set to be only an interim Liberal leader. If, as is likely, Angus Taylor wins the ballot on Friday morning, he could suffer the same fate.

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View from The Hill: Littleproud and Ley turn on the music for another attempt at the two-step

Nationals leader David Littleproud easily saw off a token move to spill the party leadership on Monday. But he is now under immense pressure to reach a deal with Liberal leader Sussan Ley to put the Coalition together again.

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Call for independent body to review minister's spending

The coalition wants a review of the communications minister's spending as she comes under renewed fire for the cost of taxpayer-funded trips.

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View from The Hill: fractured Liberals drown net zero and themselves in a torrent of verbiage

Here is a statistic that tells you what a self-defeating funk the federal opposition is in. On Monday alone, as it wallowed in the crisis over energy policy, its parliamentarians indulged in more than 35 media appearances.

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Grattan on Friday: Sussan Ley hasn’t solved her Jacinta Price problem – it may just become bigger

It says everything about the Liberals that the fracas over Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s comments about Indian immigrants became a proxy for the longer-term, debilitating battle over the party’s leadership and identity.

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Right-leaning MPs rally around Nampijinpa Price as she resists calls to apologise to Indian Australians

But Liberals say party has ‘degenerated into open warfare’ over the issue and accuse NT senator of pushing her own agenda

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View from The Hill: Should Sussan Ley extend the apology to Indian community that Jacinta Price refuses to give?

Sussan Ley’s difficulties in dealing with the Jacinta Nampijinpa Price affair have widened, amid signs it could be weaponised by her factional enemies.

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View from The Hill: Damage done by Jacinta Price’s Indian immigration comment likely to long haunt Liberals

In their different ways, Liberal frontbenchers Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and Alex Hawke are two bare-knuckle fighters.

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Hawke urges Nampijinpa Price to say sorry for ‘real damage’ her migration comments caused Indian Australians

Sussan Ley under pressure to repair ties with diaspora group after NT senator claimed without evidence Labor was bringing in migrants to win votes

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Nampijinpa Price accuses Liberal colleague of ‘cowardly’ conduct as Ley tries to limit fallout from offensive comments

Northern Territory senator says Alex Hawke berated her staff and that some media reporting on her comments has been ‘agenda-driven’

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‘A very divisive period’: the challenges facing a Liberal party in existential crisis

In the first of a four-part series, Liberal party insiders look to whether Sussan Ley will lead a new era of conservative politics or face ongoing internal brawls and lingering animosity

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Grattan on Friday: Sussan Ley has her first big outing with the national media next week, so here are some questions for her

On Wednesday, Opposition Leader Sussan Ley will front the National Press Club. So why is that a big deal?

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What a $5,000 ticket will and won’t get you at one of Canberra’s budget night fundraising soirees

As you decipher how the budget may alter your life on Tuesday night, your politicians will be raking in the cash by wining and dining donors and lobbyists

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‘Sign here’: high court finds no requirement for minister to read submissions on visa decisions

Long-running dispute, featuring ‘bizarre’ photo of visa cancellation next to a steering wheel, ends with ruling that minister can rely on department summaries

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Morrison ally Alex Hawke faces push to expel him from NSW Liberals amid fresh party turmoil

State council will also consider motion pushed by the conservative faction to reopen preselection challenge against frontbencher Paul Fletcher

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Coalition ministers ‘covering themselves’ by ordering Brittany Higgins incident be reported to police, court hears

Former Liberal staffer Fiona Brown tells Bruce Lehrmann defamation trial she defied Linda Reynolds and Alex Hawke’s orders as she did not want to take ‘agency’ from Higgins

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Lehrmann proceedings day 18 – as it happened

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The week in parliament: political debate sinks to new lows as Scott Morrison begins hard relaunch

Labor MPs frustrated by lack of fight back, the Nationals get rowdy and Alex Hawke’s Photoshop fail

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Why is Labor defending Alex Hawke’s ‘bizarre’, ‘steering wheel’ visa decision in the high court?

The former Coalition minister cancelled a man’s visa without reading his personal pleas to stay. A court says that was unfair, but Labor disagrees

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Liberal factions ready for brawl over free Senate spot

Liberal moderates have met in a bid to quell internal divisions over selecting a candidate for a vacant Senate seat as they try and gain support from the right.

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Deputy Liberal leader Sussan Ley spared preselection challenge after opponent blocked from running

Opposition leader Peter Dutton says he supports Ley along with other Liberals facing challenge, including Alex Hawke, Paul Fletcher and Melissa McIntosh

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Peter Dutton says NSW preselections will ‘roll out’ as Sussan Ley, Alex Hawke and Melissa McIntosh threatened

Opposition leader says members should be re-endorsed by Liberal party despite challenges facing Ley and colleagues

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Alex Hawke and Sussan Ley among Liberal MPs facing preselection challenges

Nominations for first batch of federal NSW seats reveal Scott Morrison allies Hawke and Melissa McIntosh face contest as does Paul Fletcher

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Afternoon Update: Morrison ally faces possible Liberal expulsion; first home buyers slash spending; and the 10 highest-paid Australian CEOs

Alex Hawke delayed preselections, harming party’s chances at 2022 election, a motion submitted to NSW Liberal state council claims

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