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State Politics

Poll Bludger: One Nation legal woes spell electoral trouble for LNP

The prospect of a One Nation crossbench delivering power to the LNP in Queensland is rapidly diminishing.

Why we should stop Serco from taking over public housing

Should public housing be privately managed? And if so, should Serco, infamous for its role in offshore detention centres, be the one doing the managing?

Save Our Super crowd is everything ugly about Australian politics

The effort to drive Kelly O'Dwyer out of public life shows how powerful cliques within the Liberal Party resent efforts to pursue the national interest in ways that don't benefit them.

Cory Bernardi was headed for electoral disaster with his one-man Australian Conservative band. But with the help of Family First, he could become a force to be reckoned with.

Poll Bludger: the accidental overnight success of Cory Bernardi

Cory Bernardi was headed for electoral disaster with his one-man Australian Conservative band. But with the help of Family First, he could become a force to be reckoned with.

'Homophobic, anti-science and frightening' religious instruction teachers remain in NSW

Some children in state schools have been told by religious instructors that cancer is the consequence of sin and a gift from God.

Will Turnbull pander to Adani with a $900m loan?

The Turnbull government appears set to expand its rampant protectionism by handing nearly a billion dollars to Adani, while urban infrastructure projects with much greater benefits go begging.

Poll Bludger: NSW voters vent frustrations with Turnbull at state byelections

Fresh from their drubbing in Western Australia, the Liberals in New South Wales copped primary vote swings that will have the Premier shaking in her boots.

NSW is the only state where housing hasn't kept pace with population growth, which is why its apartment boom still has a way to run.

Why Sydney's property market is different

NSW is the only state where housing hasn't kept pace with population growth, which is why its apartment boom still has a way to run.

The real danger at Punchbowl High School is the ideological deradicalisation program

The debate about theoretically unsound and ideologically charged deradicalisation programs, like the one at Punchbowl High School, doesn't help students.