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The Liberals’ election rout in Victoria is also a massive defeat for Scott Morrison and the federal Liberal Party.
Morrison is on track for electoral humiliation next year. The Victorian election result is a blow to Morrison’s hopes that ramping up fear about terrorism and immigration might save him in the federal election. The party’s racist scare campaign about...

A fantastic 200 teachers from more than 50 schools across Victoria, and 150 teachers from 20 schools in Brisbane, walked out to protest against the offshore detention of refugees, yesterday.
The atmosphere was charged with excitement as teachers, plus hundreds of supporters, filled the State Library forecourt in Melbourne to demand the government bring all kids and adults off Nauru and Manus immediately....

Scott Morrison and Peter Dutton have again blamed the Muslim community and spread fear and racism following the violent attack in Melbourne’s Bourke Street last Friday.
Thirty year old Hassan Khalif Shire Ali ignited a ute on Melbourne’s major thoroughfare. He then stabbed three bystanders, killing cafe owner Sisto Malaspina, before being shot dead by police....

The refugee movement is on the offensive and Scott Morrison is on the way out.
The Coalition has been forced to promise that all refugee children will be off Nauru by the end of the year.
This is an incredible victory. Morrison was the architect of the Abbott government’s Operation Sovereign Borders and has championed anti-refugee cruelty. Now the campaign has forced him into retreat....