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Nicolette Boele ‘gave up’ on politics over Labor’s climate inaction. Now she wants to win a Liberal seat

Outgoing Bradfield MP Paul Fletcher has called the teals a ‘Green left con job’. Independent candidate Nicolette Boele says it shows the Liberals have learnt nothing from 2022.

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Paul Fletcher’s retirement took local Libs by surprise, as party faithful play down teal threat

‘It was very surprising — he had already begun campaigning for reelection and has been working the local crowds very hard,’ one Liberal source told Crikey.

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View from The Hill: another Liberal moderate to leave Dutton team

A second member of the shadow cabinet has announced he is quitting parliament, further depleting the moderates’ presence in the parliamentary Liberal party and boosting the chance of the teal candidate in the Sydney seat of Bradfield.

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Stage set for teal challenge in blue-ribbon seat of Bradfield as Paul Fletcher resigns

Moderate faction to rally behind Gisele Kapterian, a Salesforce executive and former Liberal staffer, in the North Sydney seat to combat independent Nicolette Boele

The Guardian - AU

Time for renewal: Liberal MP announces retirement

Paul Fletcher will quit federal politics at the next election, amid a prominent independent candidate preparing to mount a challenge.

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View from The Hill: Paul Fletcher’s rant against the teals risks insulting voters the Liberals need to win

Liberal frontbencher Paul Fletcher got a big shock last election in his Sydney seat of Bradfield. Teal candidate Nicolette Boele pushed the result to preferences, leaving her within striking distance for next year’s poll. She has been further helped by the redistribution.

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Albanese government gets an ‘F’ from voters on housing, wages

New polling shows voters are scathing of the government’s attempts to address the cost of housing and wage growth, and a new register will be set up requiring telcos to recognise and block scam texts.

Crikey

Paul Fletcher’s grand conspiracy theory is the most interesting thing he’s ever said

Paul Fletcher — a nullity of a politician who has occupied Bradfield for 15 years — is panicking over being replaced by a community independent.

Crikey

University fees to be set by new commission as Labor urged to reverse Scott Morrison’s price hikes

Anthony Albanese hits out at Coalition MP who got a ‘free education’ but is now ‘lecturing people they can’t have their debt reduced’

The Guardian - AU

Labor promised local content quotas for digital platforms. So… where are they?

It is looking less and less likely the government will deliver ahead of the next federal election.

Crikey

Claim Labor is answering fewer questions misleads

Is the Albanese government dodging scrutiny in question time?

Crikey

Man, woman charged with murder over 12-year-old's death

Two people have been charged with murder following a "heart-wrenching" years-long investigation into the death of a 12-year-old girl on the Gold Coast.

AAP

Register of interest updates, a Shire ‘shit fight’, and the PC’s ‘unconschionable’ behaviour

Some curious register of interests updates, the ‘shit fight’ that is Liberal council preselection, and Crikey starts the great cummerbunds wars of 2024.

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Dutton doubles down on nuclear, sledges PM

The prime minister is a "child in a man's body", Opposition Leader Peter Dutton says, as he ensures nuclear energy policy will be a centrepiece of the election.

The Guardian - AU

Electoral shake-up leaves awkward questions for the teals – and headaches for the major parties

Liberal party now has candidates preselected for seats that no longer exist while Labor dealt a blow in the seat of Bennelong

The Guardian - AU

Independent MP Kylea Tink’s electorate of North Sydney to be abolished under AEC proposal

New South Wales draft boundaries would also affect the seats of Bennelong and Bradfield, held by Labor and Liberals respectively

The Guardian - AU

Bill Shorten’s speechwriter paid $300,000 a year by Services Australia, Senate estimates told

Julianne Stewart has secured two-year contract despite agency employing 200 media and communication staff

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Australian children’s television production has tanked. Blame Paul Fletcher.

Bluey won’t save us — the latest ACMA report shows the devastating consequences of the Coalition’s decision to remove local content quotas for children’s television in 2021.

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With Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2, Ninja Theory is learning from player feedback and past experience in its sustained push to challenge mental health stigma

Interview | How Hellblade 2 is building on the foundations laid by 2017's Senua's Sacrifice

The Guardian - AU

The Nightly gives Gerry Harvey space to take a swipe at arch rival

Online newspaper gives one of its biggest advertisers the chance to outline his dim view of Temu. Plus: Peter Greste story gets the film treatment

The Guardian - AU

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

The Guardian - AU

Coalition to have sizeable contingent at Cop28 despite Peter Dutton jibe at climate change minister’s attendance

Frontbenchers Paul Fletcher and Bridget McKenzie part of group of nine MPs who will be in Dubai funded by Coalition for Conservation and Environmental Leadership Australia

AAP

Opposition loses bid to bring on workplace law debate

The federal opposition has failed in attempts to force a vote on worker protection as part of carved out workplace reforms.

The Guardian - AU

Centrelink officials recalled to Senate estimates after failing to answer ‘basic questions’

Request for welfare agency to return on 7 November follows ‘unnaceptable’ October hearing about growing call and payment wait times

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