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Victoria’s rogue Liberal MP Moira Deeming flips, flops and drops legal threat

Exiled Victorian Liberal MP Moira Deeming will not pursue legal action over her temporary suspension from the parliamentary party.

The New Daily

Victorian Liberals' bitter infighting seems more and more likely to end up in court. Can Dutton stop it?

The crisis consuming the Victorian branch of the Liberal Party sounds a warning to centre-right parties that pursuing the culture wars now gripping the United States and other countries brings dangerous volatility. And little public support.

The Conversation

Exiled MP Moira Deeming tells Opposition Leader John Pesutto she is taking legal action over her suspension

Senior Victorian Liberals have already begun discussing if MP Moira Deeming should be expelled from the party room over her threats to sue Opposition Leader John Pesutto.

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Moira Deeming tells Victorian Liberal MPs she will challenge her suspension from the party

Upper house MP threatened legal action if John Pesutto didn’t declare she’s not a Nazi sympathiser

The Guardian - AU

Morning Mail: Liberals accused of flirting with ‘far-right fringe’ over voice, rocketing rents, BP’s ‘heinous’ profits

Mark Dreyfus accuses Michaelia Cash after her appearance on controversial Sky News segment

The Guardian - AU

'We'd be getting it from both sides, which was horrendous': Australian political players on our brutal refugee policies

In September 2017, I interviewed a senior figure within the Australian Labor Party in his office in Canberra. At one point in our discussion he told me:

The Conversation

Matthew Guy says some ‘dangerously politically stupid’ Sky News hosts are damaging the Liberal party

Former Victorian Liberal leader also criticises his party’s state president in his first interview since November

The Guardian - AU

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Victorian Liberal MPs to have free vote in Indigenous Voice to Parliament referendum

Victorian Liberal MPs will be free to cast a conscience vote in the Voice referendum, putting the state party at odds with its federal counterpart.

ABC News

The Liberals are the fifth iteration of our main centre-right party. Could The Voice hasten a sixth?

Peter Dutton’s defensive posture of just appealing to "the base’" and trying to hold the Liberals together may prove the losing gambit.

The New Daily

The Liberals are the fifth iteration of Australia's main centre-right party. Could the Voice campaign hasten a sixth?

Party stability on the progressive side of politics, and repeated party reconfiguration on the conservative side of politics, is a marked contrast in the history of Australia’s two-party political system.

The Conversation

Former federal Liberal minister Ken Wyatt urges Australians on all sides of Voice debate to speak up

Former federal Liberal Indigenous Affairs minister Ken Wyatt encourages Australians to inform themselves about the Voice, and debate the looming referendum regardless of what side they are on.

ABC News

Liberal rebel Ken Wyatt: Voice is the hope our young people need

Australia can give Indigenous young people hope, and end "futility syndrome", if the Voice yes case wins, ex-federal minister Ken Wyatt says.

The New Daily

Hell hath no fury like a former PM – but it wasn't always so

In a television interview with Phillip Adams in 1999, Paul Keating remarked that he retained much influence on the international stage.

The Conversation

Will a preoccupation with party unity destroy the Liberal Party?

Such has been the turmoil over the Liberal Party’s recent decision to join the National Party in campaigning against the forthcoming referendum on the Voice to Parliament that even some of the most reliable supporters in the media have remarked on the internal division.

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Liberals want to give voters an alternative to Liverpool's 'big two'

The small group - led by Steve Radford - has set out its stall for next week's elections

The Conversation

Politics with Michelle Grattan: Labor MP Marion Scrymgour on the Voice and the need for a new NT jobs program

With the Liberal Party formally opposing the Voice, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton last week kicked off his no campaign in Alice Springs. His claim that child sexual abuse is rife was quickly under attack from the government and others who accused him of politicking, using the issue as a political…

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Medicare has been under pressure for years. So is it broken and can it be fixed?

These experts say Medicare is at breaking point and it's time for major reform.

The New Daily

Retiring Karen Andrews won’t campaign against Voice

The Coalition's outgoing home affairs spokesman, Karen Andrews, won't join the opposition's campaign against the Indigenous Voice.

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Liberal Party has a 'lot of work to do': retiring MP

Speaking about her retirement from parliament at the next election, Liberal MP Karen Andrews says her party has a lot of lost ground to make up.

The New Daily

Liberals’ ex-leader John Hewson: To win back voters we need to be more like Labor, especially on the Voice

The Liberal Party has not adjusted to a progressive electorate and has failed to position itself correctly, John Hewson says

The New Daily

Dutton in clash with journalist over Alice Springs ‘crime crisis’

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has clashed with a journalist in a heated confrontation over the "crime crisis" in Alice Springs.

Al Jazeera

Canada faces questions over alleged Chinese interference

An official inquiry is under way into allegations China meddled in elections but some say the influence goes further.

The New Daily

Birmingham’s Voice refusal delivers more trouble for Dutton

The Liberal split over the Voice appears to have widened further, with a senior MP saying he will refuse to campaign for the no case.

The Guardian - AU

Indigenous voice opposition has cost the Liberals Julian Leeser and Ken Wyatt. The own goals are mounting

Its Indigenous voice opposition has cost the party two key figures, Julian Leeser and Ken Wyatt. The casualties are starting to stack up

Newcastle Herald

Gresford Billy Cart Derby shows what happens when the good times roll

The humble billy cart can lure kids away from their expensive mobile phone chat rooms and computer games.

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