Today
Greens leader Adam Bandt concedes defeat, Nampijinpa Price defects
Greens leader Adam Bandt concedes; Jacinta Nampijinpa Price ditches the Nationals; Monique Ryan’s lead is getting smaller in Kooyong. Follow live updates.
Albanese and Chandler-Mather trade barbs in post-election spat
The prime minister vanquished two party leaders in Labor’s landslide election victory, but there’s one former rival who still infuriates him.
Push to dump Attorney-General Dreyfus in factional carve-up
Mark Dreyfus is to be replaced on the Victorian Right faction’s list of ministerial candidates by backbencher Sam Rae.
How Melbourne’s green-red line undid Adam Bandt
Boundary changes to the seat of Melbourne last year meant it crossed the Yarra River for the first time to absorb parts of South Yarra and Prahran.
Yesterday
David Rowe cartoons for May 2025
David Rowe is a multiple Walkley award-winning cartoonist. He draws a daily political cartoon and one for the Chanticleer column.
Inside the campaign that brought Zoe Daniel down
Tim Wilson retreated overseas to lick his wounds after losing his seat in 2022. He came back with a plan that defied the Liberal bloodbath and returned him to parliament.
Labor pushes ahead on super tax, comeback kid Wilson promises fight
The Albanese government says it intends to press ahead with plans to increase the tax on superannuation accounts worth more than $3 million.
Nuclear winter of discontent for vanquished Coalition
Nuclear energy has become a lightning rod for internal recriminations following the Coalition’s election loss.
KKR cuts ties with Turnbull after Trump attack
The global asset and private equity giant ended its arrangement with the former prime minister earlier this year.
Labor still hopes for tariff relief despite Trump’s tough talk
Donald Trump says the US doesn’t have to sign deals to end its global trade war.
Dutton exits with grace, a side the public never saw enough of
Peter Dutton leaves Parliament after 24 years with no plans as to what comes next, only the small consolation that when the end came, it was swift.
Bandt projected to lose his seat; Dutton to exit in silence
Greens leader Adam Bandt has suffered an 8.3 per cent swing against him; Peter Dutton speaks for the first time as he heads back to Canberra. How the day unfolded.
Greens leader Adam Bandt set to lose his seat of Melbourne
Both Sky News and the ABC project Adam Bandt will become the second party leader to lose his seat this election.
I would’ve led a very ‘aggressive campaign’ says Wilson as he backs nuclear
Liberal Tim Wilson demurred on leadership aspirations after claiming victory over teal Zoe Daniel, but flagged interest in a front bench spot, backed nuclear energy and said Peter Dutton should have campaigned harder on Labor’s superannuation tax.
Greens collapse is a voter revolt against radical politics
The party is now an insular political cult – cliquey, intolerant of dissent, impervious to criticism, and detached from the values of mainstream progressives.
The Liberals are fundamentally mismatched with modern Australia
The party is ignoring the realities, identities, and aspirations of the people who will determine its electoral future.
This Month
‘The numbers are the numbers’: Vic Right demands a ministry from NSW
Deputy prime minister Richard Marles is leading a push by Labor’s Victorian Right faction to strip its NSW counterpart of a ministry.
Angry Liberal MPs want party’s election pollster gone
While no formal decision has been made, Liberal MPs are privately saying it is unlikely the party’s pollster, Freshwater Strategy, will be hired again.
Shorten handed out how-to-vote flyers. Should a uni boss be partisan?
Questions are being raised about how politically overt the former Labor leader should be now he is a vice-chancellor.
Wilson ousts Daniel, gives Liberals sliver of hope against teals
The former MP will be a leading candidate for the shadow frontbench after clawing back a win against the Climate 200-backed incumbent in Goldstein.
Moderate Liberals push Ley-O’Brien leadership ticket, Taylor in doubt
Sussan Ley and Ted O’Brien are being pushed by moderate MPs to contest the leadership, as doubts emerge about whether Angus Taylor will even run.
Liberals in dispute with AEC after counting error in knife-edge seat
Potential future Liberal leadership candidate Keith Wolahan got 8817 first preference votes from a booth in Menzies. Then the electoral commission cut it to 6966.
What Labor will do with its thumping win
Political editor Phil Coorey and the panel on what the Labor Party will do with its mandate, who the Coalition should put in its new leadership team and the seats still in play.
Bandt in danger of losing seat; Liberals ahead in teal territory
Greens leader Adam Bandt overtaken in preference count; Sky News projects Liberal victory in Goldstein.
The Greens crossed a line and Australians pushed back
For a political party that always claims the moral high ground, the Greens, in a cynical chase for votes, abandoned the very principles they claim to champion.