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What are the major parties promising in terms of mental health services? Crikey journalist Andrew Crook and the CDP’s Julia Hosking find out.

CPD researcher Julia Hosking and Crikey’s Andrew Crook find out where the parties stand on the National Broadband Network.

Surprisingly for such a flaming hot issue, in recent decades the political struggle over tax appears to have dimmed. Three years after the Henry Review, Crikey senior journalist Andrew Crook and CPD researcher Adrian March find out: where do the parties stand on tax?

Playing the Lotto when you buy The Herald Sun … when is a Green not a Green? … fact-checking disability facilities …

Crikey’s PromiseWatch project zeroes in on pledges over the Newstart allowance. Crikey’s Andrew Crook and Centre for Policy Development researcher Julia Hosking investigate the parties’ dole claims.

Qantas ladies, please defer to a bloke … Crikey’s list of political turncoats … no heteros-xuality please, we’re Green …

Don’t sneer at Alan Jones — without his long-running campaign against coal seam gas, would the issue have come to the attention of the federal government? Plus other political issues of the day.

The media are looking for “Labor figures”, and they’re not too picky who they get. Plus other political issues of the day.

The Greens’ split with Labor will prompt the ALP — no doubt soon to be in opposition for a while — to do some serious soul-searching to decide what it stands for.

The Greens are on track to underperform compared with the 2010 election. In which case, getting your competitor to differentiate you isn’t such a bad strategy.

Man ban for Greens? … this man has Ian Macdonald by the throat … horse served as beef in Sydney …

The latest high-speed rail report from the Greens relies on the same errors as previous efforts. The inconvenient maths of the situation is it’s just too expensive.

An “exclusive” front-page report in The Australian newspaper claimed the Greens will dump their most hostile policies towards private schools. But the truth is somewhat murkier.

There have been some startling developments in The Australian’s chief literary critic Geordie Williamson’s bid for a seat on the Blue Mountains City Council.