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Federal Election 2019
Matthew votes with mum by his side
Wearing red ‘Stop Adani’ earrings and his signature multicolour and patterned dress shirt, the Greens’ Sydney candidate Matthew Thompson appeared at the Darlington Public...
Tanya votes welcomed with cookies, gasps and smiles
In a sharp red blazer Deputy Leader of the Opposition Tanya Plibersek walked to the Darlington Public School polling booth on this sunny Saturday...
Easy Rider: Jacqui bikes around Sydney’s polling booths
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It’s a bright Saturday morning and Jacqui Munro, Liberal candidate for Sydney, has just arrived at the Sydney Town Hall polling booth to cast...
Fake news war on WeChat
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Bill Shorten updates his WeChat account in Mandarin every day and has live-streamed question and answer sessions with Chinese-Australians while Scott Morrison has posted...
Australia can be an environmental superpower says Science Party
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Science Party's Aaron Hammond speaks on climate change from Digital Media Unit on Vimeo.
Candidate for Sydney Aaron Hammond says Australia has the potential to...
Tanya Plibersek: Portrait of a social justice champion
The popular incumbent Member for Sydney, Tanya Plibersek, has been re-elected seven times and looks set to easily notch up another win. The bigger...
Sydney candidate pushes for scientific solutions
Science Party candidate Aaron Hammond stood on a very busy corner of College and Oxford streets in Darlinghurst. He was on the campaign trail...
‘Three knives, two faces’: why Labor is losing Chinese voters
First generation Chinese migrants living in the centre of Sydney may not prove to be big fans of Labor in the May 18 election....
Medevac: will medical evacuations of asylum seekers weaken our borders?
Once again, the familiar cry of “stop the boats” has entered an Australian election campaign. This time the government isn’t talking about boat turn-backs...
