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Tony Abbott during a previous visit to Melbourne.

Not even Abbott’s iron political will could get the better of this Melbourne icon

Former prime minister Tony Abbott decided it was best not to stand his ground in the CBD on Monday.

  • Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman

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Former prime minister Tony Abbott

Behind the scenes at Tony Abbott’s ‘buoyant’ back to work party

Conservative Liberals gathered at the former prime minister’s office to toast the start of the work year with a spring in their step.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook
Nyunggai Warren Mundine, Deputy Liberal leader Sussan Ley, Gisele Kapterian.

Warren Mundine loses teal target seat preselection as Liberals pick tech executive

The race in Bradfield shaped up as a test of the right-wing establishment’s influence in Liberal branches of the blue-ribbon territory.

  • Paul Sakkal
Warren Mundine, left, has won support from Tony Abbott and Jacinta Price.

Anti-Voice band back together as Price, Abbott back Warren Mundine for key seat

The one-time Labor Party president turned anti-Voice campaigner is running in one of the few seats that voted “yes” for the Indigenous body.

  • Paul Sakkal
An artist’s impression of the 29-unit housing block that Homes NSW is proposing to build for seniors in Riverwood in Sydney’s south.

Where’s the good in Riverwood? Get a heart!

With the number of homeless aged people on the rise, how heartwarming it would have been if the residents of Hardwicke Street had put out the welcome mat.

Kevin Andrews’ funeral.

Politicians from across the aisle farewell ‘man of conviction’ Kevin Andrews

Family, friends and former prime ministers have gathered to farewell Liberal Party stalwart and former defence minister Kevin Andrews at a state funeral in Melbourne.

  • Holly Hales
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John Pesutto on Friday.

Pesutto’s leadership hanging by a thread after deadlocked Deeming vote

John Pesutto has been given 24 hours to stand down or face a leadership challenge after the narrow vote on allowing Moira Deeming back into the party room cost him support from key backers.

  • Rachel Eddie, Kieran Rooney and Chip Le Grand
John Pesutto and Moira Deeming.

Howard, Abbott mooted as Deeming peacemakers in abandoned deal

Previously undisclosed details of John Pesutto’s settlement plan will be weighed by Liberal MPs as they prepare for Friday’s vote on Moira Deeming’s return.

  • Chip Le Grand
Kevin Andrews

Faith and conviction: Tributes flow for late Liberal minister Kevin Andrews

The former defence and immigration minister and longest continuously serving member of federal parliament has died at 69 after a year-long cancer battle.

  • Ashleigh McMillan
Illustration by Simon Letch

Voters laboring under gutless government

Ross Gittins may well bemoan the “era of gutless government”, but perhaps he should direct his criticism to the people responsible, the electors of Australia.

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