Jacinta Nampijinpa Price says there were probably ‘many reasons’ why her and running mate Angus Taylor’s ticket failed in the Liberal Party leadership contest; Bradfield may have been called and projected too early, with teal candidate Nicolette Boele now just 59 votes behind Liberal Gisele Kapterian.
Tanya Plibersek will take over social services in the PM’s reshuffle, as Murray Watt moves to environment and Health Minister Mark Butler adds the NDIS portfolio; Tim Wilson says he won’t seek the Liberal Party leadership; David Littleproud retains the National Party reins.
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.
Analysis of election figures shows the share of the two-candidate-preferred voted counted by midnight on election day has fallen over the past six election.
Kooyong has come down to just 365 votes, while Goldstein has reverted to blue after three years in teal.
Anthony Albanese has slammed an ousted Green MP after the party’s leader lost his seat; Liberal Amelia Hamer has made further cuts to Ryan’s lead in Kooyong, while Labor claims another WA win.
Marcia Langton says Anthony Albanese must use his once-in-a-generation election win to be courageous in Indigenous policy to address extreme disadvantage.
Analysis shows there was no statistically significant correlation between the swing in a seat and the share of its households that lived in a mortgaged home.
Labor continues to be most attractive to cosmopolitan, high-migration, high-education voters whereas its message is not cutting through as much elsewhere.
A pro-Palestine political wave that had threatened to topple Labor in inner-city seats failed to materialise, with two ministers romping home.
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