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Chaffey’s Corner: First Column

1 day ago21 July 2025

Jamie Chaffey writes his first column as the Federal Member for Parkes on the eve of parliament’s return.

Posted inPolitical

If Jillian Segal is to resign, it should be for her actions — not her husband’s

15 July 202522 July 2025

RK Crosby argues that you may not like the antisemitism envoy or her report, but she shouldn’t be fired for her husband’s political donation

Posted inPolitical

I just want a government that won’t lie to me

5 July 202521 July 2025

RK Crosby is on the hunt for a government that doesn’t lie. Not a perfect government. Not even a particularly competent one. Just one that doesn’t treat the truth as optional.

Posted inPolitical, Regional

An Open Letter to the Prime Minister – When the Bush Pays for the City’s Silence

5 June 20255 July 2025

Glen Innes Severn Mayor Margot Davis has written an open letter to the PM calling for urgent action to fix the shortage of funding for councils, and end the hateful online abuse that results from the SRV process.

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Barnaby Joyce’s diminishing relevance in a changing Australia 

1 June 20251 June 2025

Denise McHugh writes that New England needs a representative who is relevant, respected, and able to work with government—not someone who has become a symbol of everything voters have rejected.

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Thought the Libs were out of touch? The Nats would like you to hold a bar full of beers.

21 May 202521 May 2025

RK Crosby says there’s nothing principled about the National Party’s split from the Liberals. It’s just stupid.

Posted inPolitical, Something to Think About

Can we be a little bit brave?

18 May 202524 May 2025

The big majority and friendly Senate the election has delivered Albanese could be bad, or it could be very, very good. Will it entice the conservative and cautious Albanese to be a little bit brave?

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Sussan Ley: The Path Forward

15 May 202524 May 2025

New leader of the Federal Liberal Party Sussan Ley says she will fight for the values of the party she has committed to rebuild.

Posted inPolitical

Sussan Ley makes history, but faces unprecedented levels of difficulty

14 May 202524 May 2025

As if by visual metaphor, Sussan Ley’s task seemed both obvious and impossible in her first press conference as the new Liberal leader.

Posted inPolitical

Accessibility, not affordability, the cry of increasingly abandoned rural voters

10 May 202524 May 2025

What the city pundits failed to grasp in their endless vapid analysis of the election is that regional frustration isn’t about affordability, it’s about accessibility.

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