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Teals and independents are fighting hard to win seats in NSW parliament. Have they done enough?

Three-horse races and optional preferential voting making calling seats ahead of Saturday’s state election a risky wager

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Election sign row triggers teal push to make preferential voting compulsory in NSW

Independents accuse Liberals of attempting to ‘deceive’ voters after signs that say ‘you can just vote one’ appear in contested seat

The Guardian - AU

Climate 200 accused of ‘push polling’ in key Sydney seat ahead of NSW election

Exclusive: fundraising group defends telephone polling after complaint by NSW Liberal party director

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Can Dominic Perrottet hold off Labor wave sweeping nation to continue Coalition's 12-year reign in NSW?

A Dominic Perrottet win on March 25 would not only continue the Coalition's 12-year reign in New South Wales but also stem the Labor tide sweeping across Australia.

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Judge says Sally Rugg returning to work for Monique Ryan may be ‘simply unworkable’

Ryan cited Rugg’s decision to travel by aeroplane while she had Covid as a reason for losing trust and confidence in her

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Horses, housing and LGBTQ+ rights: would-be NSW kingmakers outline demands

With a hung state parliament a real possibility, independents are listing the issues they want addressed to guarantee their support

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Ballots are yet to open in the NSW election but have the teals already won?

Independent challengers spruik their influence on government policy as a sign of the benefits they bring

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Big money was spent on the 2022 election – but the party with the deepest pockets didn't win

Nine months after the 2022 federal election, voters finally get a look at how much the parties spent and who funded their campaigns.

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Clive Palmer’s mining company pumped $116m into UAP at 2022 election, helping it outspend major parties

Revelation likely to add to transparency stakeholders calls’ for caps on political donations

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Clive Palmer's mining company tops political donations list with $116 million last financial year

Mineralogy was the single biggest political donor last financial year, pouring $116 million into Queensland businessman Clive Palmer's United Australia Party. Both Labor and the Liberals each received more than $100 million in donations.

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Networks and money: the inside story of how the teals won Australia's six richest electorates

For many voters despairing about the gridlock and lack of integrity in Australian politics in recent years, the success of the teal independents in the May 2022 federal election was an exhilarating moment. They won six formerly safe Liberal seats, returned four independents - Zali Steggall in Warringah, Helen Haines…

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‘Teal wave’ turns out to be barely a ripple as number of Victorian independents goes backwards

Of four state election candidates backed by Climate 200, two remain in contention – but both trail Liberals

The Guardian - AU

BoM update suggests big wet to continue as La Niña lingers – as it happened

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Morning Mail: Java quake kills at least 162, Climate 200 looks at NSW teals, Iran footballers silent protest

In today’s newsletter: Indonesia is counting the cost of a magnitude-5.6 earthquake, Simon Holmes à Court signals support for independents in New South Wales election

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Simon Holmes à Court considers supporting up to 10 teals to shake up NSW election

Climate 200 is looking at ‘seven to 10’ seats in the state and has had discussions with groups in ‘most’ of them

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Liberal claims of Victorian teals acting as a ‘party’ dismissed as ‘vexatious’ by Climate 200

Two independent candidates say the complaint to the state’s electoral commission is ‘unfounded’

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In the battle for Melbourne’s Bayside, can fired-up independents snatch seats?

Razor-thin margins put Brighton, Caulfield and Sandringham within striking distance this Victorian election – but the major parties remain quietly confident

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Australia’s progressive forces show signs of fracturing – and a test on free and fair elections looms

I suspect Australians don’t want to be spectators in an electoral arms race where wealthy individuals exercise oversized influence in our democracy

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Six independent MPs raised $10 million to get seats in federal parliament

Six 'teal' independent candidates raised $10.2 million to help them secure seats in the federal parliament.

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Climate 200 made nearly $6 million in political donations to teal independents ahead of federal election

Election disclosures detail the millions of dollars raised and spent by the teal independents to defeat high-profile Liberal MPs in blue-ribbon seats at the May federal election.

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Winning teal independents backed by $10.2m in political donations

AEC disclosures reveal Atlassian founder Scott Farquhar was the biggest Climate 200 donor, giving $1.5m, followed by Mike Cannon-Brookes

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Candidates in the Victorian seat of Caulfield put forward their cases for election

The sitting Liberal MP in Caulfield, David Southwick, holds the seat by a razor thin margin and is facing a challenge from a teal independent backed by the Climate 200 body.

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David Pocock backs caps on political donations and electoral spending in boost to Labor plan

ACT senator says caps are the only way to stop ‘wealthy entities from exerting undue influence’ on elections

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Climate group calls for donations overhaul

Climate 200, the group which helped with the election of teal independents, has called for changes to political donation laws.

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Melbourne’s eastern suburbs are ground zero in battle for Liberal party’s future

Hawthorn and Kew seen as vital seats for the Victorian Liberals, still reeling from their federal election rout

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