One Nation Seeking to ‘Clean Out’ Moderates From Centre-Right Liberal Party

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Moderate MPs in Australia’s centre-right Coalition government will confront an additional challenge from the right-wing conservative One Nation party after it announced that it would preference the centre-left Labor opposition in five key marginal seats. Pauline Hanson, national leader of the party, revealed on April 28, that in its “first shot across the bow” One Nation would preference the Labor Party over the incumbent Liberal Party in Bass in Tasmania (held by Bridget Archer), Indi (Helen Haines) and Goldstein (Tim Wilson) in Melbourne, North Sydney (Trent Zimmerman), and Sturt in Adelaide (James Stevens). Many of the seats are held by slim margins by the Coalition, with North Sydney and Goldstein facing additional pressure from “teal independent” candidates funded by the Climate 200 group—backed by billionaire Simon Holmes à Court—who are pushing for more policies to deal with climate change. ...

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