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Angus Taylor may have just created half a million new Labor voters
Angus Taylor may have just created half a million new Labor voters
By Kos Samaras
The Coalition’s plan to strip welfare access from non-citizens could accelerate a surge in citizenship and voter enrolment across migrant-heavy suburban seats critical to the Liberal Party’s electoral future.
Government CGT changes structurally sound
US condemns Israel’s Ben-Gvir while sanctioning Gaza flotilla organisers
Catch 22? A problematic definition of antisemitism
Are this budget’s tax changes really an ‘assault on aspiration’?
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