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Money Never Ages
Local Australia News
The population will be an ongoing challenge for our politicians and citizens for many parliaments to come. Indeed, it is a public policy problem that goes beyond party politics.
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Its Time ... To Woo The Membership: Labor Rivals Say Growth Can Make Abbott One-term PM
Local Australia News
Bill Shorten and Anthony Albanese are both promising to build a bigger Labor Party capable of defeating the Abbott government in one term.
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Call For Labor Union Fee Change
Local Australia News
A Labor MP wants the relationship between unions and the ALP to be fundamentally recast by giving one million-plus union members the right to choose if membership fees go to supporting Labor. Stephen Jones, who holds the federal seat of Throsby, has proposed that union members be allowed to ''opt in'' to supporting Labor. The big unions channel tens of millions of dollars every year to the ALP.
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Palmer Accused Of War Of Attrition Over Recounts
Local Australia News
Palmer United Party scrutineers are challenging and rechallenging thousands of votes in the Queensland seat of Fairfax in what some commentators have suggested is a ''calculated abuse'' of the electoral process.
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New MPs Clive Palmer And Cathy McGowan Voice Their Dreams
Local Australia News
Clive Palmer was the headline act, but the biggest crowd came to support the woman who turned out to be his warm-up act, Cathy McGowan, the giant-slayer from north-east Victoria.
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Labor Urges Review Of Commission Of Audits Controversial Report
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Labor will ask the Parliamentary Budget Office to review the final report from the Abbott government's controversial Commission of Audit.
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Outgoing AWU Leader Paul Howes Breaks Ranks On Labor Party Link
Local Australia News
Outgoing AWU leader Paul Howes has broken ranks with his union and now supports a severing of the historic link between Labor and its industrial wing.
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