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Opposition Leader Peter Dutton in Melbourne earlier on Monday.

Dutton wants referendum on giving politicians ability to deport dual citizens

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton and his senior MPs have held high-level talks about a referendum on powers to strip citizenship for dual nationals who commit serious crimes.

  • Paul Sakkal

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Some mishaps on the election trail: Kevin Rudd busts in on a choir; Tony Abbott inexplicably eats an onion; Scott Morrison’s rugby tackle trouble; and, Paul Keating’s cake plan falls flat.

‘You ignorant bastards!’ Perils of the election campaign trail

Very rarely, everything goes smoothly on the election campaign trail. Often, things go very, very wrong.

  • Tony Wright
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton promised no cuts to frontline public services at a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra.

Dutton borrows from Abbott: ‘I won’t cut frontline public services’

Tony Abbott broke his 2013 promise of no cuts to health, education or the ABC. Peter Dutton just made a similar promise of no cuts to frontline public services.

  • James Massola
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
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
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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
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

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