April
Teals warn Labor has ‘dropped the ball’ on small business
The independent MPs, expected to play a crucial role in next year’s federal election, also hit out at the Coalition for failing to support sensible changes.
- Patrick Durkin
March
Teals brand Labor’s $3m policy a ‘cash grab’
Teal MPs say changes to taxation of super funds with balances larger than $3 million could drive investment away from start-ups and leave retirees worse off.
- Hannah Wootton
January
- Opinion
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
He called for political integrity. Will he defend a Jewish cricketer?
Cricket Australia chairman Mike Baird wants leaders to do what is right, not popular. So why isn’t he defending a Jewish cricketer who supported Israel?
- Aaron Patrick
December 2023
The teals play the long game with integrity
They know the best opportunity for reform may come after the next election – when the major parties could be forced to negotiate for power with crossbench.
- Ronald Mizen
October 2023
Major parties, teals squabble over NSW redistribution
The major parties and teal independents are at loggerheads over a pre-election redistribution of federal electorates in NSW that could help decide the outcome of the next election.
- Phillip Coorey
Teal seats vote Yes but Libs unperturbed
Between four and six of the teal seats votes Yes, but the Liberals say Labor’s wipeout is of greater significance.
- Phillip Coorey and Tom McIlroy
September 2023
- Opinion
- Tax reform
Why politics is harder than it looks
Well-meaning reformers like the teals want to impose change over the heads of the people who will be affected by it the most.
- Jason Falinski and Tim Wilson
June 2023
- Opinion
- Berejiklian inquiry
Why Gladys Berejiklian failed ICAC’s test
The former NSW premier will never agree with the Independent Commission Against Corruption’s finding she engaged in serious corrupt conduct. But the damage is done.
- Jennifer Hewett
May 2023
Teals join party hacks in the Chairman’s Lounge
Ever since the teals dislodged a raft of Liberals on the promise of a better politics, we’ve wondered how many would proceed to accept such hospitality.
- Myriam Robin
October 2022
Bosses face arbitration threat if they refuse flexibility requests
Employers will face the threat of such action if they knock back an employee’s wish for more flexible work arrangements.
- Phillip Coorey
Teal MP says $140,000 a year is ‘not rich’
North Sydney independent Kylea Tink backed the stage three tax cuts over the reservations of her fellow teals.
- Aaron Patrick
August 2022
Apprenticeship funding should extend to ‘pink workforce’, say teals
The jobs summit will hear pitches to invest more in training for female-dominated trades such as fashion, textile and floristry to alleviate skills shortages.
- Hannah Wootton
The $25b reasons Teals say women can solve the jobs crisis
Influential independent MPs say there is a slew of reforms the jobs summit can consider to improve women’s workforce participation and ease the skills shortage.
- Updated
- Hannah Wootton
July 2022
Teal independent Kylea Tink still angling for bigger entourage
The teals ran on an integrity platform. Newsflash: demanding preferential treatment in politics lacks integrity.
- Joe Aston
- Opinion
- Federal election
Coalition will find salvation only in the political centre
For all the political post-mortems, the simple lesson of this year’s election is that Australian voters do not like divisive politics.
- Anthony Liveris
Burke assures teals they won’t be gagged on climate
The federal government will structure the first fortnight of parliament to satisfy demands by teal independents that they will be able to join the climate debate.
- Phillip Coorey
June 2022
Teal MPs find their appetite for pork-barrelling
Why on earth would Monique Ryan or Zali Steggall need eight full-time staff in their service?
- Joe Aston
Taxpayers to save $7m a year from crossbench staff cuts
As newly elected MPs arrive in Canberra, some plan to speak to Anthony Albanese to urge him to reverse course on cutting MP staff numbers.
- Andrew Tillett
- Exclusive
- Federal election
Albanese faces teal revolt over staff cuts
Zali Steggall says Scott Morrison treated the independents with more respect than Anthony Albanese.
- Updated
- Phillip Coorey
Who drove the teal vote? It wasn’t unhappy Liberals, says survey
Teal voters were more likely to be Labor or Greens supporters, a new analysis says, portraying Morrison and Joyce as the most unpopular Coalition leaders since 1987.
- Andrew Tillett
