Wilson is close to an official call in his tussle with teal Zoe Daniel, as Greens leader Adam Bandt risks losing in Melbourne. The Liberal Party has taken a 44-vote lead in a newly created seat.
Adam Bandt has denied his hardline Gaza stance cost him votes and, despite lower-house losses, vowed to use the Greens’ Senate power to shape the ‘most progressive parliament’.
Labor barely won the primary votes of one in three Australians – but its victory ranks as one of the biggest election triumphs in Australian history.
Peter Dutton’s seat of Dickson has been one of Anthony Albanese’s top targets during the 2025 election campaign.
Labor has courted Beijing-backed property developers and senior figures in the Chinese Communist Party’s foreign influence arm in a pre-election push for donations and votes in key seats.
Every government that has held a two-party-preferred lead in Newspoll one week before polling day has gone on to win the election.
The 2022 election result fell into place in Western Australia and, if the leaders’ travels are anything to go by, the major parties reckon it could well happen again.
The crash in female support since the start of the election campaign has the potential to hurt the Coalition’s chances most acutely in one of the seats it is most desperate to win back: Kooyong.
Anthony Albanese hopes to snatch Sturt, Deakin and Leichhardt from the Liberals while Peter Dutton is pouring energy into a swag of Labor seats headlined by McEwen and McMahon.
Peter Dutton’s campaign has focused heavily on the outer suburbs of most of the state capitals.
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