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Coalition of the unwilling: Climate wars will soon eclipse reunification relief

The climate wars are over. And the Coalition lost. But it will have great difficulty in accepting this fact and that’s a particular problem for the Liberal Party.

  • Peter Hartcher

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Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party will have four senators.

One Nation wins big, Pocock no longer kingmaker: A field guide to the new Senate

Pauline Hanson’s party has doubled its representation as the upper house will be set for a shake-up when the new term of parliament begins in July.

  • Olivia Ireland
David Littleproud and Sussan Ley

For the Liberals to survive, the Nationals need to get tealed

The break-up and reunification of the Coalition isn’t a moment or a reaction to the past election. Instead, it represents decades of contradictory forces.

  • Waleed Aly
Liberal leader Sussan Ley and Nationals leader David Littleproud address the media at a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra on Wednesday 28 May 2025. fedpol Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

Ley’s first shadow ministry is on the mark. But now the hard work starts

Sussan Ley has promoted allies but retained key conservatives in a big refreshment of the Coalition’s shadow frontbench.

  • James Massola
Liberal leader Sussan Ley and Nationals leader David Littleproud.

Ley breaks with Dutton on immigration, DOGE, but ignites feuding after cull

Sussan Ley revealed a Coalition frontbench on Wednesday afternoon – just over a week after the Liberals and Nationals split. The shadow ministry selection reveals further fractures.

  • Paul Sakkal
Nationals leader David Littleproud and Liberal leader Sussan Ley.

‘100 per cent disappointed. Furious’: Nationals MP says Littleproud misled the party

As Nationals leader David Littleproud negotiates a fragile truce with Liberals leader Sussan Ley, one of his own MPs says he has deceived his colleagues.

  • James Massola
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Opposition Leader Sussan Ley says she will remake the Liberal Party to reflect modern Australia.

Sussan Ley to unveil shadow cabinet this week with a few surprises

As the dust settles on the Coalition on-again, off-again split, the Liberals and the Nationals are expected to sign a peace deal and unveil their frontbench.

  • James Massola
The number of undecided voters is rising. Who will get their tick?

Surge of informal votes in hospitals and aged care casts doubt over close results

An almost threefold increase in the rate of informal voting in healthcare settings nationwide has drawn official scrutiny and raised questions over the outcome in key contests.

  • Shane Wright
Nationals deputy leader Kevin Hogan, Nationals leader David Littleproud and leader of the Nationals in the Senate Bridget McKenzie.

Hogan defends Littleproud’s leadership and judgment

Deputy Nationals leader Kevin Hogan reveals David Littleproud did not ask the partyroom’s permission for a proposal that the Nationals end cabinet solidarity.

  • James Massola
Sussan Ley and David Littleproud

How an oversharing Coalition drama could make voters polyamorous

Many Australian voters, it seems, are no longer looking for a long-term marriage to one particular party. The Coalition parties should remember that.

  • Parnell Palme McGuinness

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