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Malcolm Turnbull has been urged to resign from the Liberal Party after he donated $3,000 to an independent candidate fighting the government in Saturday's Upper Hunter by-election. New South Wales Deputy Premier John Barilaro has called the former prime minister 'treacherous' and a 'disgrace' after he threw his support behind anti-coal farmer Kirsty O'Connell in the seat held by the National Party. Mr Turnbull owns two huge farms in the region and wants to stop the local Mount Pleasant coalmine from being expanded because he claims it would ruin his air quality and views. Malcolm Turnbull has...

Advertisement Gladys Berejiklian is the preferred premier among Labor voters and NSW Labor’s primary vote has slumped to 28 per cent as the Coalition’s handling of the pandemic wins voters. As Labor tries to wrest Upper Hunter from the government in a critical byelection on Saturday, the opposition’s statewide primary vote has slipped five points since the 2019 state election. Labor leader Jodi McKay and Premier Gladys Berejiklian. Credit:Kate Geraghty/Rhett Wyman The latest Resolve Political Monitor shows Ms Berejiklian is the preferred premier among 57 per cent of voters, wh...

Just days before a critical by-election in NSW a new poll shows Premier Gladys Berejiklian is the preferred premier among 57 per cent of voters, with just 17 per cent choosing Labor leader Jodi McKay. The Resolve Political Monitor poll published on Wednesday in the Sydney Morning Herald found that even Labor voters prefer Ms Berejiklian, with NSW Labor's primary vote slumping to 28 per cent. Despite a string of scandals that have left the Berejiklian government in minority, the poll found the opposition's vote has dropped five percentage points since the 2019 state election. Last week a fourt...

Liberal MPs will wait until the outcome of Saturday’s Upper Hunter byelection before counselling Kiama MP Gareth Ward to consider his political future as he faces sexual violence allegations.

What Johnsen is advertising through this website, however, is not a nuanced facilitation between commercial projects and the standards expected of public governance. It’s something more direct. After launching the site with pictures of himself with the premier and other senior cabinet members, the website touts Johnsen’s 13 years in office as one that delivered “$1.9bn in capital investments and $345m in community grants”. There are those of us who still believe that government should exist in service to the common good, rather than as a mere brokerage of competing commerc...