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Opposition Leader Peter Dutton concedes defeat on May 3.

Kevin ’07 and Hawke are Australia’s most popular leaders in 40 years. Dutton is dead last

According to a long-running study, May’s election was a record-breaking one for former opposition leader Peter Dutton – for all the wrong reasons.

  • Shane Wright and Natassia Chrysanthos

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Peter Dutton led the charge on opposing Labor’s tax cuts, despite colleagues arguing against the move.

‘We were like lemmings going over a cliff’: Inside Dutton’s $17 billion blunder

Anthony Albanese had kept Project Georgia a tightly held secret in the hope of forcing the opposition to make a mistake. As Niki Savva writes in an exclusive extract, the tactic succeeded beyond Labor’s wildest dreams.

  • Niki Savva
A portrait of John Laws taken on the July 10, 2008

John Laws scores our PMs out of 10

There was no more familiar voice in Australian broadcasting than John Laws. At 90, he had lost none of his characteristic alpha male belligerence.

  • Peter FitzSimons
The wipeout began with Scott Morrison, and was all but completed under Peter Dutton.

‘We have a serious problem’: fears for Liberal future as gender quotas rejected

The party’s review into its historic drubbing found Peter Dutton and his team spent years acting like a cautious government-in-exile and presented a dire policy agenda.

  • Paul Sakkal and Nick Newling

Liberals’ zero-sum game reaches terminal velocity

Since John Howard, no leader has fashioned a Liberal brand that could win the party consecutive election victories.

  • Nick Bryant

The Libs are heading for less than (net) zero

Every Liberal Party leader since Tony Abbott has been felled by the issue of climate action. Does the same fate await Sussan Ley?

  • Jacqueline Maley
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Queensland Premier David Crisafulli, Nationals defector Barnaby Joyce, Opposition Leader Sussan Ley, and Liberal MP Andrew Hastie.

Could a merged federal LNP save the Coalition? Crisafulli shares his view

The Queensland premier says his party would have been perpetually in opposition if it stuck to the same structure of the federal party divisions.

  • James Hall
The Treaty Legislation.

Like Dutton with the apology, Victoria’s opposition has turned its back on a key moment

As the parliament rose to applaud the speeches of Aboriginal leaders, opposition MPs stayed glued to their seats.

  • Chip Le Grand
Opposition Leader Sussan Ley and former frontbencher Andrew Hastie.

Liberals play blame game over Hastie leak as Ley denies it came from her

Opposition Leader Sussan Ley called a meeting in Canberra on Monday after a report earlier that day that Peter Dutton had been highly critical of Andrew Hastie’s work ethic.

  • Paul Sakkal
Fallout: Peter Dutton and Andrew Hastie.

The meeting where Dutton and Hastie’s relationship fell apart

In an exclusive extract, Niki Savva reveals details of the shadow cabinet meeting that irreparably damaged Peter Dutton and Andrew Hastie’s relationship, and how Dutton panned his frontbenchers’ policy work.

  • Niki Savva

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