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Independent Nicollette Boele has won the seat of Bradfield following a recount.

Teal candidate Nicolette Boele wins final Bradfield recount, court challenge looms

The Liberals have lost the seat of Bradfield in a recount, but it may not be the end of the battle for the north shore seat.

  • Alexandra Smith

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Gisele Kapterian and Nicolette Boele.

Teal edges ahead as Libs fear Bradfield is slipping away

Nicolette Boele has a wafer-thin lead as the count drags on for the north shore seat. 

  • Alexandra Smith and Shane Wright
INK Article ID: p5lt2x Liberal candidate for Bradfield Gisele Kapterian and Teal candidate for Bradfield Nicolette Boele, pictured, during a debate ahead of the federal election held at North Shore Synagogue in Lindfield, Sydney on April 22, 2025. Photo: Thomas Wielecki

North shore teal distances herself from allegedly antisemitic posts

Bradfield independent Nicolette Boele, who was debating Liberal rival Gisele Kapterian, said a former campaign volunteer published the comments on social media.

  • Penry Buckley
Rewriting the rules ... Liam Picken and Annie Nolan in 2016.

Annie Nolan cops burglary on her chin

The social commentator and wife of former Bulldogs star Liam Picken, though understandably upset, could also see the lighter side of her ordeal and even shared some of the more embarrassing details.

  • 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
John Howard (centre) understood the need for a Liberal “broad church”. Departing, departed and sidelined liberals of the party: Simon Birmingham and Paul Fletcher (left); Julie Bishop, Christopher Pyne and Julian Leeser.

Liberals’ ‘broad church’ has become a pervasive sect

Behind the Liberal banner, reasonableness has been steadily squeezed out and, with supreme irony, the breadth of its ranks has been shrivelled to exclude moderation, pragmatism, compromise and tolerance.

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Howard surrounded by liberal Liberals

Where have all the liberal Libs gone? This is Dutton’s cue to learn from Howard

The Liberal Party, said John Howard, was a “broad church”, at its best when it embraced both its conservative and liberal traditions.

  • George Brandis
The winner’s circle: Liberal moderates were a powerhouse during the Turnbull government.

Liberal moderates were in the ‘winner’s circle’ under Turnbull. It’s a different story now

In 2019, there were about 22 members in the group that champions socially progressive causes. Now there are just 12 committed to staying on past the next election.

  • James Massola
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.

Liberal MP Paul Fletcher is resigning.

Second leading Liberal moderate quits, saying a woman should get his seat

Former minister Paul Fletcher insisted his departure had nothing to do with the threat he faces from teal independent Nicolette Boele.

  • Paul Sakkal, Max Maddison, James Massola and Penry Buckley

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