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Geoff ChambersChief Political Correspondent

Geoff Chambers is The Australian’s Chief Political Correspondent. He was previously The Australian’s Canberra Bureau Chief and Queensland Bureau Chief. Before joining the national broadsheet he was News Editor at The Daily and Sunday Telegraphs and Head of News at the Gold Coast Bulletin. As a senior journalist and political reporter, he has covered budgets and elections across the nation and worked in the Queensland, NSW and Canberra press galleries. He has covered major international news stories for News Corp, including earthquakes, people smuggling, and hostage situations, and has written extensively on Islamic extremism, migration, Indo-Pacific and China relations, resources and trade.

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EXCLUSIVEPolitics

Optus Managing Director of enterprise and business, Gladys Berejiklian. Jane Dempster/The Australian

Berejiklian backs Ley to restore Libs

Australia’s first female Liberal premier Gladys Berejiklian has endorsed Sussan Ley to succeed Peter Dutton as Liberal leader and ‘bring the party back to the centre’.

Geoff Chambers and Simon Benson

COMMENTARYCommentary

CANBERRA, Australia - NewsWire Photos - July 2, 2024: Leader of the Opposition Peter Dutton, Party leader of the National Party of Australia David Littleproud and Shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor hold a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Littleproud failed his KPIs – Nats want him to pay the price

David Littleproud failed key performance indicators that would have seen him remain at the head of the Nationals. That failure, combined with the white hot anger within the part, has opened the door for challengers.

Geoff Chambers

EXCLUSIVEPolitics

NCA 2025 FEDERAL ELECTION Labor BUS. DAY 5 02/04/2025 Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on the campaign trail In Victoria. Australian Labor Prime Minister Anthony Albanese visits Goodstart Early Learning in Croydon, Melbourne. Along with Labor candidate for Deakin Matt Gregg (red striped tie), Minister Murray Watt. . Picture: Jason Edwards / NewsWire

ALP MP: unrealised gains tax ‘not ours’

A former Labor vice-president and trade union leader Michael Easson has cut down the Albanese government’s plan for a tax on unrealised gains just as newly elected Labor MP Matt Gregg told voters the party has already dropped it.

Matthew Cranston and Geoff Chambers

COMMENTARYPolitics

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - November 19, 2024: Minister for Industry and Science, Ed Husic, National Reconstruction Fund Corporation Chair, Martijn Wilder and CEO Russell Mining Equipment , Dr John Russell hold a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Blood spilled as Left dominates Right

With the PM’s beloved Left faction becoming the dominant force in his caucus following Saturday’s historic election rout, Labor’s right-wing powerbrokers on Thursday were forced to wield the axe.

Geoff Chambers

EXPLOSIVE MOVEPolitics

Price of defection is risk of Liberal Party civil war

Angus Taylor’s move to recruit Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has triggered anger from senior Nationals and threatens to engulf the party beyond Tuesday’s vote to replace Peter Dutton.

Geoff Chambers and Rhiannon Down

POLITICS NOWPolitics

Keating attacks Albanese for not saving Husic, Dreyfus

NSW Labor Right legend Paul Keating has lashed Anthony Albanese for allowing the Victorian Right to garner more power, saying the Prime Minister failed to make another ‘captain’s call’ to keep Ed Husic and Mark Dreyfus in the ministry.

Richard Ferguson, Greg Brown, Sarah Ison, Rhiannon Down, Geoff Chambers and Noah Yim

EXCLUSIVEPolitics

Dark days: Peter Dutton's resounding defeat on Saturday has Liberal Party donors questioning their commitment, as leadership contenders like Sussan Ley and Angus Taylor prepare for a partyroom meeting on its future.

Furious top Liberal donors to close wallets

Liberal Party donors and long-term supporters say without early wholesale changes, they won’t be handing over money in three years’ time. ‘It’s been a disaster’.

Matthew Cranston and Geoff Chambers

Election 2025Politics

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - Sunday, 4 May 2025: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese pictured serving Ice cream at Bar Italia, Norton Street, Leichhardt after having coffee with supporters. Picture: PMO VIA NewsWire

History-making Albanese serves up promise of ‘steady’ mandate

Anthony Albanese will prioritise crucial visits to Jakarta and Washington amid global uncertainty after a thumping election victory gifted him powerful authority inside a second-term Labor government and decimated Peter Dutton’s Liberal Party.

Geoff Chambers and Greg Brown

Inside storyPolitics

Sleepwalking to disaster: how Coalition missed all the warnings

Peter Dutton and his tight inner circle entered the 2025 election year brimming with a fatal over-confidence – a self-belief that lasted right until the eve of the May 3 election.

Geoff Chambers and Greg Brown

Surgery bookedPolitics

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - February 11, 2025: Barnaby Joyce during Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Joyce reveals secret cancer fight

One-time deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce has revealed he will undergo surgery on Monday after being diagnosed with early-stage prostate cancer.

Geoff Chambers and Sarah Ison

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