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How 20,000 people changed politics: Behind the scenes of the teal wave
Few were seasoned activists. Others had crossed party lines. A 20,000-strong volunteer force with unseen social, familial and digital links proved pivotal to the success of the "teal" independents in May's federal election. IT'S MARCH 8, 2022 and Lyndell Droga is perched on a sofa in the living room of ...
Read morePolitics can be done differently': Teal Independents named in Marie Claire's Women of the Year awards
The "teal" Independent MPs were named in Marie Claire's Women of Year awards, which celebrates game-changing women who are challenging norms to build a brighter future. All seven Independent MPs who upended the Federal Election in a historic "teal wave" h ...
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Labor's workplace bill passes lower house after further concessions on multi-employer bargaining
Paul Karp, The Guardian. Most extensive IR legislation in two decades now moves to the Senate where independent David Pocock is the swing vote
Read moreCrossbenchers call for more time on IR
Crossbenchers in the House of Representatives and Senate are calling for more time to consider the IR Bill - with a vote likely to take place in the House this week. Many of the Teal Independents have voiced their concern over how it will impact business. ...
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Labor's IR package faces new mandate pressure
Only five months before the election and less than a year before the Government introduced its wide-ranging workplace reforms Jim Chalmers, now Treasurer, declared the contentious industry-wide bargaining "was not part" of Labor election policy. Whether t ...
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Teals slams reforms bill
Warringah MP Zali Steggall has branded the government's controversial industrial relations reforms an attempt to unionise certain workplaces, as anger spreads among the teal independents over the speed with which the bill is being pushed through. A decision to begin public hearings into the bill on Friday ...
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Small business concerns fuel demands for IR bill delay
The prospect of industry-wide strikes and small businesses being dragged into multi-employer bargaining against their will are chief among the concerns of the independents who are demanding the government delay the passage of its industrial relations legi ...
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˜Pretty hard': Crossbench senators declare sticking points with government's IR bill process
The three senators who will decide the fate of the government's contentious industrial relations bill say they don't have enough time to scrutinise the wide-scale changes in the three weeks they have been given. Escalating concern from crossbenchers over ...
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"Big missing item is electricity prices": Allegra Spender on latest budget
As the country continues to unpack Tuesday's federal budget, criticisms are mounting over the lack of direct assistance for families in the face of rising energy prices and rampant inflation. There are also concerns that continued subsidies for fossil fue ...
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Australia can't get to the new year and 'not have dealt' with gas prices
Australia can't get to the new year and not have dealt' with gas prices Independent MP Allegra Spender says Australia "can't get to the new year and not have dealt with gas prices" because "this is a fossil fuel price crisis". Ms Spender said although "th ...
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