Greens team up with government to pass Hockey’s last tax bill
Shadow treasurer Chris Bowen has accused the Greens of being the "tax transparency traitors" in agreeing to the "dodgy deal" at the last minute.
View ArticlePoll Bludger: Turnbull’s thumping lead puts Labor MPs on endangered species list
If the current polling bears out on election day, federal Labor MPs will undergo a dramatic culling sometime from this September.
View ArticleAlbo’s fall from grace? Grayndler could go Green
Grayndler may no longer be the rolled-gold Labor seat it once was.
View ArticleGreens’ Senate deal sure pisses off Labor, but is it an own goal?
The Greens have done a deal with the Coalition on Senate reform -- but will it blow up in their faces?
View ArticleTips and rumours
Has the Greens-Lib preference deal been done? ... filthy, filthy chipmunks ... Bruce Billson enthusiastic (as usual) ...
View ArticleWho is doing what and why in the Senate this week?
The motions and counter-motions of this week's extraordinary Senate week, explained.
View ArticleSleepless in the Senate
The Senate likes butts, and it cannot lie -- things got a bit weird as senators stayed awake all night.
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Labor to Danby: thanks for preference claim, but we’ll take it from here
Outspoken Melbourne Ports MP Michael Danby has proudly announced he’ll be preferencing the Liberals, not the Greens, in his seat — but the party says, in fact, Victorian Labor, not individual...
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Much ado about preferences
Two days into an election campaign and all the parties could fight about was who was preferencing whom, and what deals were being made. Yesterday’s Herald Sun front page was splashed with claims that...
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Crikey campaign scorecard: Labor has edge, ‘jobs and growth’ falls flat
WHO WON THE DAY? Bernard Keane, Crikey politics editor: Yesterday was a clear win for the government — or is that more correctly a loss for Labor? Bill Shorten was bedevilled for a second day running...
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Crikey Campaign Scorecard: my infrastructure’s bigger than yours!
WHO WON THE DAY? Bernard Keane, Crikey politics editor: The government got away, mostly, with its clumsy deferral of the backpacker tax — better a morning of humiliation than the issue dragging on for...
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Tips and rumours
From the Crikey grapevine, the latest tips and rumours … David Feeney’s tricky disclosure history. Labor frontbencher David Feeney is in hot water over his undeclared $2.3 million Northcote house,...
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Tips and rumours
From the Crikey grapevine, the latest tips and rumours … One is the loneliest number. Yesterday we told you that journalism professor Matthew Ricketson had survived a meeting of the media union...
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Rundle: Greens Derangement Syndrome spreading (and not just among the right)
It’s been a good couple of weeks for Greens Derangement Syndrome in the press gallery. It kicked off last week, with James Massola’s report on Richard Di Natale, the farm he owns jointly with his wife,...
View ArticleMedia briefs: Holmes boned … 60 Minutes gets messier … Greens Derangement...
Jonathan Holmes says he has been boned from The Age. The post Media briefs: Holmes boned … 60 Minutes gets messier … Greens Derangement Syndrome part III … appeared first on Crikey.
View ArticleThe sausage factory
Crikey readers talk politics. The post The sausage factory appeared first on Crikey.
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Kelly O’Dwyer stares down the Greens in the Red Room
Tempers occasionally flared as cashed-up LGBTI businesspeople asked the Higgins candidates about asylum seekers, marriage equality and negative gearing. The post Kelly O’Dwyer stares down the Greens in...
View ArticleRundle: Greens Derangement Syndrome, part IV
Symptoms worsen. The post Rundle: Greens Derangement Syndrome, part IV appeared first on Crikey.
View ArticleTips and rumours
Greens for Zionism? ... Scots College mobilises ... the boats stop themselves ... The post Tips and rumours appeared first on Crikey.
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Greens backflip on copyright policy
The Greens introduced a bill in favour of fair use exceptions in 2013. But it seems they no longer are keen on changing copyright law. The post Greens backflip on copyright policy appeared first on...
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