Opinion
Richardson: A coup not to unite a party, but to entrench its divisions
The blood-dimmed tide is again loosed in the nation’s capital, yet another brutal circus of mayhem and megalomania.
Opinion
The blood-dimmed tide is again loosed in the nation’s capital, yet another brutal circus of mayhem and megalomania.
Politics
No action will be taken against South Australian Liberal powerbroker Christopher Pyne over claims he asked a regional mayor to run as an independent against his own party’s endorsed candidate at the 2013 federal election – despite conflicting accounts of what transpired.
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Former state Liberal candidate Peter Gandolfi has confirmed that moderate faction powerbroker Christopher Pyne urged him to stand as an independent against his own party’s candidate in the federal seat of Barker in 2013.
South Australia’s political bureaucracies have a busy few months ahead, facing the looming loss of a federal seat while contesting a crucial state election. But, as in all party games, the trick will be in finding a way to navigate through the chaos, writes Tom Richardson.
UPDATE | The likelihood of South Australia losing a seat in federal Parliament has sparked a political debate about population, with Premier Jay Weatherill declaring the state’s lifestyle is being safeguarded by our relatively low rate of growth.
As tensions swirl around Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, Michelle Grattan assesses the damage to him and to previously untouchable minister Christopher Pyne.
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