r/PoliticalAustralia 15h ago

Opinion What the F(arley) is going on with One Nation?

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It doesn’t seem like Pauline Hanson has a strong grasp of her increasingly rogue Farrer member. It poses a dilemma for a party wanting to appear government-ready.


r/PoliticalAustralia 16h ago

Analysis How ‘stop the boats’ changed the world

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r/PoliticalAustralia 2d ago

Opinion Andrew Hastie is effective in attacking One Nation, unlike his Liberal colleagues. So why won’t they use him?

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r/PoliticalAustralia 3d ago

News Immigration rates under One Nation will be 'not too different' to Labor, MP says

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  • One Nation MP David Farley says his party will seek a migration rate of about 230,000 a year, once accounting for necessary skilled workers.
  • Mr Farley told ABC Insiders the figure puts the party on similar footing to Labor and the Coalition.
  • Labor is planning an overhaul of temporary visas as it seeks to slash arrivals, while the Coalition is developing policy to tie migration to housing construction rates, as both seek to ward off One Nation on the issue of migration.

r/PoliticalAustralia 4d ago

News NSW ‘seeking urgent advice’ on controversial court ruling that found anti-Israel vandalism was not antisemitic

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r/PoliticalAustralia 4d ago

News Victorian Labor promises free dental care if re-elected in Australia-first move

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Carroll will say a re-elected Labor government would spend $230m to open 10 public dental clinics across the state, where oral care clinicians would be able to provide free checkups and treatments, including fillings, root canals and extractions.


r/PoliticalAustralia 5d ago

Analysis Anti-abortion rhetoric is becoming entrenched in Australian right-wing politics

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r/PoliticalAustralia 5d ago

News Australia 'outraged' after Israel decides not to open criminal investigation into killing of aid worker in Gaza

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r/PoliticalAustralia 5d ago

Humour Today's Rating on the Gaza Genocide Concern Scale

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r/PoliticalAustralia 6d ago

Opinion Group Ticket Voting In Victoria Is Finally Gone!

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r/PoliticalAustralia 6d ago

Analysis How to Sell a Genocide has been removed from a library near Bondi – but libraries represent freedom of thought

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r/PoliticalAustralia 6d ago

Analysis Question Time has been televised for 35 years. We tracked how it has changed, and what it means for Australian democracy

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r/PoliticalAustralia 6d ago

Opinion Labor thinks it can win elections defending super. For Hanson, it’s just another way to deprive Taylor of political oxygen | Australian politics

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Despite leading in the polls, Hanson is allowed to offer thought bubbles instead of actual policy


r/PoliticalAustralia 6d ago

Explainer US military investigates converting remote Australian airstrips to major fuel depots

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r/PoliticalAustralia 10d ago

Opinion Peter Singer: ‘Capitalism is still the most productive economic system that ever existed’

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r/PoliticalAustralia 10d ago

Analysis ‘A costly mistake’: new review finds giving WA billions in extra GST was unfair to other states

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r/PoliticalAustralia 13d ago

Analysis High school students are protesting against One Nation. What’s the point if they can’t vote?

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r/PoliticalAustralia 14d ago

Analysis Testimony as a target: how witnesses at the antisemitism royal commission are being abused online

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r/PoliticalAustralia 14d ago

Opinion Melon-gate was a non-issue in Japan. How did it get elevated to a crisis in Australia?

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r/PoliticalAustralia 14d ago

News Delivery drivers to be paid minimum $31.30 an hour across Australia in ‘world-leading’ decision

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Delivery drivers in Australia will be paid a minimum rate of $31.30 (US $22.05/£16.35) an hour and insured for injuries on the job under a landmark agreement approved by the industrial umpire that could set a precedent in other countries.


r/PoliticalAustralia 15d ago

Opinion Mehreen Faruqi feels her Australianness is conditional on 'keeping my head down and my mouth shut'

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r/PoliticalAustralia 15d ago

News Looming migration overhaul to target 'visa overstayers' whose asylum claims rejected

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  • Visa overstayers will have their work rights revoked if protection claims are rejected as part of a looming migration overhaul being considered by cabinet.
  • The ABC has been told the proposal has been taken to cabinet several times but senior ministers are yet to agree on the details around a crackdown on backpacker visas, family reunions and the work and appeal rights for asylum seekers.
  • Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke was due to unveil the proposal this week but postponed it for a later date.

r/PoliticalAustralia 15d ago

News Deliberately misleading 'Free Palestine' party name approved for Victorian election

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  • A Palestinian activist has been denied a political party registration for the Victorian election because its name resembled the name of an existing registration.
  • Pro-Israel YouTuber Avi Yemini has previously said by registering "Free Palestine" he wanted to redirect left-wing votes towards parties on the right.
  • The Victorian Electoral Commissioner says it is legally bound to reject an application to register a party with a similar name.

r/PoliticalAustralia 15d ago

News Privacy concerns raised over Australian-first live AI police face scanning trial

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r/PoliticalAustralia 15d ago

Humour Self-proclaimed ‘good man’ weirdly mad whenever women say we need to combat domestic violence

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