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Sacked MLA denies hitting staffer labelling footage 'deliberately edited'

Comes as the MLA announces a new tilt for Assembly.

The Canberra Times

Canada’s Trudeau says ‘a lot of work to do’ after Montreal by-election loss

PM Justin Trudeau says he will work to ‘regain confidence’ of Canadians after his Liberal Party loses long-held seat.

Al Jazeera

‘Only gets worse from here’: court hears Victorian Liberal leader’s texts about Moira Deeming before he ‘tarred her with the Nazi brush’

Liberal leader had attempted to force Deeming’s resignation and falsely portrayed her as a Nazi sympathiser, court hears

The Guardian - AU

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Montreal by-election presents ‘litmus test’ for Justin Trudeau’s Liberals

Frustrations with Trudeau’s government and desire for change could see Liberal Party lose a long-held seat, experts say.

Al Jazeera

Shane Rattenbury for Chief Minister? Greens shift campaign pitch

Greens could lead government, more credible than Liberals, leader says

The Canberra Times

Dumped Libs MLA meets with Belco Party over political future

Liberals have advised the minor party against picking up the MLA.

The Canberra Times

'No tolerance': Kikkert dumped from Liberal party room after being disendorsed

Party room vote comes after allegations over compliance obligations.

The Canberra Times

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Grattan on Friday: Liberals send in veteran warhorses to deal with party’s hot mess

Finally, just months out from the election, the Liberal Party is tackling the Augean stable that is its New South Wales division. It is a task that should have been a priority two years ago, after the division’s toxic factionalism had been on inglorious display in the run-up to the…

The Conversation

Federal Liberal party to forcibly take over NSW division after ‘scathing’ nominations debacle review

Committee will be appointed for 10 months and the NSW Liberals have until next Thursday to comply

The Guardian - AU

Wild weather across three states – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU

‘Julian Leeser said I shouldn’t nominate’: Why Philip Ruddock got rolled by the Libs

Exclusive: Why did Liberal Party elder Philip Ruddock lose preselection as Hornsby mayor? The man himself says Julian Leeser was behind it.

Crikey

Ex-Lib ordered to fly in for Pesutto's defamation trial

A former Victorian Liberal MP-turned-educator in the UK must return to Australia to give evidence in a defamation trial brought against his former boss.

AAP

The Liberal party’s local government elections nomination fiasco is a boon to the left but bad for democracy

Political parties play a crucial role in simplifying the choices for voters – a voter confronted by a list of names without any party signals is forced to do a lot more work

The Guardian - AU

Not 'realistic' Libs didn't know deadline: commissioner

The NSW Liberals have threatened legal action after the state's electoral commission refused to extend a deadline for local government candidate nominations.

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Former Liberal MP settles bitter lawsuit with ex-lover

Ex-Liberal minister Craig Laundy, his wife and daughter have almost settled a lawsuit by his ex-lover who claimed she was threatened, lied about and harassed.

Crikey

‘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?

Crikey

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.

The Conversation

Compulsory voting in Australia is 100 years old. We should celebrate how special it makes our democracy

For nearly 200 years, the notion of American political exceptionalism has had currency in the United States: it is an idea rooted in the nation’s status as the first modern republic. As we watch from afar, disturbed yet mesmerised by the latest chapter of violent political division in America, the…

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Crikey

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.

Crikey

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.

Crikey

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.

Crikey

Can future Liberals achieve small government?

Peter Dutton’s vision for an Australian nuclear energy industry is incompatible with the idea of small government. But when push comes to shove, politics always trumps ideology.

Crikey

Something is deeply wrong with business regulation. Even the Liberals know it

What does it say about Labor when the Liberals are the ones pushing for more regulation of business conduct?

Crikey

What’s the deal with Dai Le?

The Fowler MP’s politics leave many scratching their heads. But she’s a clear warning to the ALP not to take its working-class heartland for granted.

Crikey

Jane Hume reignites the ‘gender’ wars ahead of the election

I suspect most Australian women don’t see addressing the cost of early childhood education or superannuation on parental leave as ‘welfare’.

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