POLITICAL PARTIES – AUSTRALIA

Demand for PM to purge frontbench

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Original article by Phillip Coorey
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 1 & 4 : 28-Jun-17

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is expected to make changes to his frontbench team in late 2017, but some members of the Coalition’s conservative faction want a cabinet reshuffle to be undertaken much sooner. They are pushing for moderates George Brandis and Marise Payne to be dropped from cabinet and replaced with conservatives. The leaking of a speech at a private function by moderate Christopher Pyne provided the impetus for the conservative faction to push for change, with some suggesting that Turnbull’s leadership may at risk if they are not given more representation in cabinet.

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AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF THE PRIME MINISTER AND CABINET, AUSTRALIA. ATTORNEY-GENERAL’S DEPT, AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF DEFENCE, AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY

Donations row engulfs Turnbull’s team

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Original article by Simon Benson
The Australian – Page: 1 & 6 : 9-Jun-17

China-born billionaire Chau Chak Wing has rejected claims that he has links to the Chinese Communist Party. Chau, who has been an Australian citizen for 20 years, has hit out after he was named in a television program about overseas donations to Australian political parties. Chau says he has never tried to seek any gain from donations made by himself or his companies to political parties. He notes that both of Australia’s major parties have solicited donations from him, and it has been revealed that one of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s campaign organisers approached Chau for a donation prior to the 2016 federal election.

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AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF THE PRIME MINISTER AND CABINET, AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY, LIBERAL PARTY OF AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIAN SECURITY INTELLIGENCE ORGANISATION, AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, FAIRFAX MEDIA LIMITED – ASX FXJ, COMMUNIST PARTY (CHINA)

Bernardi alliance out to block Xenophon

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Original article by Rosie Lewis, Verity Edwards
The Australian – Page: 5 : 27-Apr-17

Liberal Democrat senator David Leyonhjelm says he has agreed to a "loose" voting alliance with the newly-enlarged Australian Conservatives. They will co-operate when voting on issues on which they broadly agree, with the aim of curbing the influence of the Nick Xenophon Team in the upper house. Australian Conservatives founder Cory Bernadi says the new party would welcome any Liberal politicians who wish to defect. His party recently merged with Family First Australia.

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AUSTRALIAN CONSERVATIVES, LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY, FAMILY FIRST PARTY AUSTRALIA LIMITED, LIBERAL PARTY OF AUSTRALIA, NICK XENOPHON TEAM, ONE NATION PARTY

Greens amid top spenders on flights

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Original article by Rachel Baxendale
The Australian – Page: 1 & 2 : 13-Jan-17

The travel expenses of federal politicians have come under further scrutiny amid revelations that Australian Greens leader Richard Di Natale spent $A56,526 on travel during the first half of 2016. The Greens’ community services spokeswoman Rachel Siewert submitted claims for $A63,934 worth of travel expenses during the period. The Greens have criticised the high travel expenses of members of the major political parties, and Di Natale stresses that his team’s travel expenses were solely work-related.

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AUSTRALIAN GREENS, AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY, LIBERAL PARTY OF AUSTRALIA, NATIONAL PARTY OF AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND TRADE, AUSTRALIA. ATTORNEY-GENERAL’S DEPT, AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF SOCIAL SERVICES, AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF EMPLOYMENT, AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF HEALTH, AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF THE PRIME MINISTER AND CABINET, AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF IMMIGRATION AND BORDER PROTECTION

Bernardi on brink of Libs split

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Original article by Sarah Martin
The Australian – Page: 1 & 4 : 22-Dec-16

Senator Cory Bernardi has declined to comment on speculation that he plans to leave the Liberal Party and establish a new conservative party. Bernardi established the Australian Conservatives website in mid-2016, and a recent message on the site said some "important campaigns" will be launched in 2017. There has also been speculation that the Australian Conservatives party will receive financial support from mining magnate Gina Rinehart, who has praised the policies of US president-elect Donald Trump.

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LIBERAL PARTY OF AUSTRALIA, HANCOCK PROSPECTING PTY LTD, ROY HILL HOLDINGS PTY LTD, NATIONAL PARTY OF AUSTRALIA, ONE NATION PARTY

Western Australian Senator Rod Culleton resigns from One Nation

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Original article by Primrose Riordan
The Australian Financial Review – Page: Online : 19-Dec-16

Senator Rod Culleton has accused One Nation leader Pauline Hanson and her chief of staff James Ashby of "disunity and distrust" in a statement in which he announced his resignation from the party. He has also alleged that Hanson and Ashby tried to force him to resign, and claimed that One Nation policies were devised without any consultation with the party room.

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ONE NATION PARTY, HIGH COURT OF AUSTRALIA, FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA, WESFARMERS LIMITED – ASX WES

One Nation may target 60 seats

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Original article by Sarah Vogler
The Australian – Page: 6 : 23-Nov-16

One Nation won 11 seats in the 1998 election in Queensland, and the party aims to field candidates in at least 60 seats at the next state poll. The party’s state and national secretary, Jim Savage, stresses that One Nation will only contest seats if it can field goods candidate, and he says it has held talks with some former Liberal-National Party MPs who lost their seats at the last election. However, he adds that no sitting L-NP MPs have been approached about defecting.

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ONE NATION PARTY, LIBERAL-NATIONAL PARTY OF QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY, AUSTRALIA. ATTORNEY-GENERAL’S DEPT, AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF THE PRIME MINISTER AND CABINET

One Nation: freedom not union rule

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Original article by Phillip Coorey, David Marin-Guzman
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 1 & 4 : 11-Oct-16

One Nation has indicated that it is likely to support the Federal Government’s bills to reinstate the Australian Building & Construction Commission and establish a Registered Organisations Commission. One Nation has voted in favour of a bill to protect the rights of emergency services volunteers. Industrial relations spokesman Senator Malcolm Roberts says the party believes that volunteers should not be subject to union control, and it is likely to adopt the same principle when voting on the Government’s key industrial relations reforms.

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ONE NATION PARTY, AUSTRALIAN BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION COMMISSION, AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF THE PRIME MINISTER AND CABINET, VICTORIA. COUNTRY FIRE AUTHORITY, UNITED FIREFIGHTERS’ UNION OF AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY, AUSTRALIAN GREENS

Baird Government drops behind for first time in NSW; Barnett in trouble in Western Australia while Andrews Government still riding high in Victoria despite CFA union dispute

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Original article by Roy Morgan Research
Morgan Poll Update – Page: Online : 11-Oct-16

An SMS Morgan Poll on State voting intention, which was carried out from 30 September to 2 October 2016, has found that support for the L-NP Government in New South Wales has fallen by two per cent to 48.5 per cent on a two-party preferred basis, while Mike Baird’s rating as "Better Premier" has fallen by 3.5 per cent to 52.5 per cent. In Victoria, support for the ALP Government has risen by one per cent to 56.5 per cent on a two-party preferred basis, while Daniel Andrews’ rating as "Better Premier" is unchanged at 59 per cent. In Western Australia, support for the L-NP Government has fallen by 1.5 per cent to 47.5 per cent on a two-party preferred basis, and Colin Barnett’s rating as "Better Premier" has fallen by two per cent to 41 per cent just five months before the state election in March 2017.

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MORGAN POLL, ROY MORGAN RESEARCH LIMITED

Now ‘too close to call’ in New South Wales as Baird support slips while ALP has slight lead in Western Australia and a clear lead in Victoria

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Original article by Roy Morgan Research
Morgan Poll Update – Page: Online : 9-Sep-16

In NSW the Baird Government has now lost its strong lead: L-NP 50.5% (down 3%) cf. ALP 49.5% (up 3%) and in WA the Mark McGowan-led ALP Opposition now has the lead heading towards next year’s WA State Election: ALP 51% (up 2%) cf. L-NP 49% (down 2%). In Victoria support for the Andrews Government is virtually unchanged with two-party support: ALP 55.5% cf. L-NP 44.5% while in Queensland support for the ALP 50% (unchanged) is level with the L-NP 50% (unchanged). This SMS Morgan Poll on State voting intention was conducted in August with a representative cross-section of 5,490 Australian electors.

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MORGAN POLL, ROY MORGAN RESEARCH LIMITED