PM hints at hard line on staffing
Anthony Albanese says it is not reasonable that Liberals and the Nationals MPs should be given the ‘reward’ of more advisers after the collapse of the Coalition.
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The architect of Labor’s 2025 election victory, Paul Erickson, has left the door open to re-using the Mediscare campaign when Australians next go to the polls.
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Sussan Ley intends not to re-form a Coalition with David Littleproud before the 2028 election as she moves to seize on the Nationals’ shock split to promote up to nine additional Liberal MPs to her new opposition frontbench.
Conservatives eye more frontline roles as Ley grapples with new line-up
Liberal MPs agreed there would be ‘more jobs for everyone’ after the Coalition split, but time would tell how well they would take to traditional National roles like resources.
Should we stay or should we go? Nationals torn on Coalition
The Nationals have failed to reach a position yet on a future Coalition agreement with the Liberals in opposition at a meeting on Friday of their heads of state and federal branches.
Coalition agreement possible next week but Nationals undecided
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Greens will always call out ‘genocide’: new leader Waters
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Members of Greens believe Lidia Thorpe and an outspoken Greens First Nations faction are meddling in the minor party’s policies and upcoming leadership battle.
Bury the past, build a new future: Ley ‘up for the job’ of taking on Albanese
Sussan Ley has pledged to rebuild a broken Coalition, win back women voters, end factional allegiances and promote rivals after being elected the first female Liberal leader in the party’s 81-year history.
Watt the? Albanese’s big ministerial reshuffle
Anthony Albanese has used his post-election ministerial shake-up to shaft longtime factional rival Tanya Plibersek and promote close ally Murray Watt to finalise Labor’s contentious nature-positive reforms.
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