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The Turnbulls’ dream to make western Sydney as liveable as the east
The power couple wants to reimagine western Sydney suburbia by making it greener, more walkable and more densely populated.
- by Matthew Knott
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Analysis
Energy
Energy crisis: A crash we all saw coming but did nothing to stop
The market suspension is about more than cold weather and power station maintenance. It is about a disgraceful failure in Australian politics.
- by David Crowe
Dutton commits to WA GST formula on first trip to Perth as opposition leader
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton travelled to Perth on Wednesday to hold his party’s first shadow cabinet meeting.
- by Hamish Hastie
Coalition’s ‘warmongering rhetoric’ backfired on Morrison: Labor campaign chief
The clash over Chinese influence helped Labor win the federal election, the party’s national secretary has concluded in his first public assessment of the way Anthony Albanese swept into power.
- by David Crowe
Opinion
Victorian Parliament
Ethnic voters are leaving Labor, but not for the Liberal Party
In the Australia of today where different races and ethnicities bump along together most of us probably give little thought to issues of race. But the same can’t be said for our politicians.
- by Roshena Campbell
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Matthew Guy
Former Labor councillor seeks Guy’s support to run for Liberals
One-time state Labor parliamentary hopeful Intaj Khan has joined Matthew Guy’s local Liberal Party branch in Melbourne’s east but wants to run for a state seat in the city’s west.
- by Annika Smethurst
Opinion
Opinion
Hubris, the Liberal Party and a tale of two Tims
Tim Wilson and Tim Smith offer a lesson to their party, both state and federal. They lost the capacity for self-doubt, believed their own BS and showed no respect for the electorate.
- by Jon Faine
Climate, Clive and China: Grassroots Libs vent frustrations at secretive post-election WA debrief
WAtoday spoke to three attendees of the event, which was the only one of its kind for lay party members to air grievances about the campaign.
- by Hamish Hastie
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Perth
Credit card membership rort uncovered by WA Liberal Party audit
The audit found widespread occurrences of multiple membership renewals on one credit card and more than half of the party’s members living outside branch areas.
- by Hamish Hastie
Former Liberal MP pleads not guilty to impeding CCC in expenses probe
Former Liberal MP Phil Edman will fight charges that he impeded a CCC investigation into his parliamentary expenses.
- by Hamish Hastie and Louise Rennie
Opinion
CBD
Friends in high places show Palmer how it’s done
Was a Facebook ad campaign backed by some of Australia’s most illustrious boomers more successful than the millions in annoying advertising spent by Clive Palmer? CBD investigates.
- by Kishor Napier-Raman and Noel Towell