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Liberal train wreck just the ticket for minor parties

The NSW Liberal Party has wrapped up a calamitous week by appointing a new state director after the predecessor was sacked for not submitting nomination forms.

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'Crisis of leadership': Hunter Liberal members' fury at party's nomination bungle

Wide-reaching fallout from Liberal Party nomination bungle.

Newcastle Herald

‘Absolute disaster’: Liberal Party blame game likely to result in heads rolling

The NSW Liberal Party stuffed up enormously yesterday, failing to nominate candidates for several councils. Who is to blame?

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Leaked letter reveals NSW Liberal leader’s fury after preselection defeat

Exclusive: Even allies of Mark Speakman wonder whether he is in control of his party after he failed to influence a council ticket in his own backyard.

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Howard minister ends 50-year career, Perrottet bows out

Former immigration minister Philip Ruddock has been turfed out by the Liberal party while ex premier Dominic Perrottet addressed parliament for the final time.

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Dutton doesn’t realise importing US politics means the death of the Liberal Party

As the Liberal Party has moved to the right, compulsory preferential voting has enabled the moderate centre it once represented to find new candidates.

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From broad church to narrow cult: Peter Dutton’s ‘Hansonisation’ of the Liberal Party

The Liberal Party has fully embraced the divisive right-wing populism past leaders worried would destroy it.

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Peter Dutton’s nuclear push makes sense in the modern Liberal Party

To conservatives and libertarians alike, the ‘moderates’ of the Liberal Party appear to be unprincipled shills virtually indistinguishable from the modern Labor Party.

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Ex Liberal Staffer Bruce Lehrmann Committed To Stand Trial For Rape Charges In Toowoomba

Bruce Lehrmann has been committed by a magistrate to stand trial for charges of rape that allegedly occurred in Toowoomba in 2021.

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Australian opposition puts nation's first nuclear power plants in its energy plan ahead of elections

Australia’s main opposition party says it plans to build Australia’s first nuclear power plants as early as 2035, arguing the government’s policies for decarbonizing the economy with renewable energy will not work

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Dutton rules out Jervis Bay as a nuclear reactor site

Power disputes spark up the federal election battle.

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Lehrmann rape hearing adjourned for 'no-case' argument

Lawyers for former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann plan to argue he has no case to answer when rape charges against him return to court.

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Australia's leader says opposition will renege on greenhouse gas emissions target if elected

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says the opposition Liberal Party will renege on the nation’s ambitious target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 if it wins elections due within a year

The Independent UK

Liberal Party head office rules out parachuting candidate into Paterson

Liberal Party head office says Paterson preselection will its course.

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Liberal leader's public apology after defamation suits

Victoria's opposition leader has apologised after settling two high-profile defamation cases that were triggered by a 2023 rally in Melbourne.

Newcastle Herald

Taylor Martin expelled from Liberal Party after investigation into abusive texts

The former Hunter Parliamentary Secretary has been kicked out of the NSW Liberal Party.

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Why moving to the right could be wrong for Dutton and the Coalition

The opposition leader’s strategy, outlined at his first press conference as leader and reinforced through words and practice since, emphasises a further hardening towards the populist right.

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Who is John Macgowan?

The former Liberal Party staffer flanked Bruce Lehrmann in the early days of his trial. But that wasn’t the first time his named appeared in print.

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Dutton in Wellington for global conservatives gathering

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton will meet with his conservative counterpart Chris Luxon in Wellington on Thursday.

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Scott Morrison absent as Cook Liberals sharpen knives over parachuting saga

The selection of an outsider in Morrison’s safe seat of Cook with the backing of party bigwigs has angered local Liberals.

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Ex-Victorian Liberals boss fined $40k over unlawful ads

Former Victorian Liberal Party director Sam McQuestin has been handed $40,000 in fines over a series of unlawful election ads.

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Amelia Hamer takes on Monique Ryan in Kooyong contest

The grand-niece of former Victorian premier Rupert 'Dick' Hamer is the Liberal candidate chosen to fight independent Monique Ryan for the seat of Kooyong.

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Libs withdraw election ad after 'unusual' intervention

South Australia's electoral commission has taken the unusual step of publicly calling out the state Liberal party's social media account over a complaint.

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Rats learn faster than men in the Liberal Party

The Liberals continue to grapple with their ‘woman problem’, two years after an election where lack of female party members was a key issue.

Newcastle Herald

Scene set for Newcastle Liberal Party bloodbath

Blake Keating faces expulsion from the Newcastle Liberal branch

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