Phil Thompson was suspended fter refusing to withdraw comments calling the Albanese government ‘liars’. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastWere the teal party conversations sparked by the government’s electoral reforms?Yes and no, Allegra Spender and Zali Steggall say.There are many things that favour major party structures, and again, the public was incredibly cynical about that move, that it’s yet again major parties trying to rig the game for their benefit.I have had conversations over a period of time about how politics could evolve because people keep on coming to me and say they really worried about the times that we’re in.The question is: look, are there ways to better collaborate to evolve and how we work together or how some of us work together so that we can more explicitly align on certain areas and then where our communities and where we fundamentally disagree to have that freedom.
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