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Explainer: how do minority governments survive?

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imageIt could all hinge on the man in the middle.Dan Kitwood/PA

Most experts are now predicting another hung parliament after the 2015 election – so attention is switching to the type of government that is likely to emerge. The hung parliament of 2010 produced a Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition but after the Lib Dems’ unhappy...

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Government hid knowledge of Nauru assaults, open letter alleges

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imageAsylum seekers during a hunger strike in Foxtrot Compound at the Manus Island detention centreRefugee Action Collective

The government is under renewed pressure over the Nauru detention centre, with a claim that it has known of “the sexual and physical assault of women and children” for at least 17 months.

This was long before the...

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