‘Focus on climate’: Milne offers Greens advice
Former Greens leader Christine Milne is urging the party to rebound from its ‘disappointing’ seats loss to focus on climate issues if it wants to be effective in this parliament.
Federal Election 2025
Albanese leaves Labor Right ministers Dreyfus and Husic behind
A heated factional brawl has sparked a refresh of Anthony Albanese’s second-term ministry, demoting Labor’s most senior Jewish and Muslim MPs while boosting the Left’s representation.
PM confident ahead of White House talks with Trump
Anthony Albanese says his people skills will stand him in good stead when he sits down with Donald Trump in the Oval Office in coming weeks.
Warning for Greens as party faces a Bandt-less future
‘He’ll blame Labor, he’ll blame Liberals, he’ll blame voters, but never himself’
Liberals missed all of their main campaign targets
Defence defiant on ‘legacy’ choppers, despite US move to scrap them
Lib MPs urge unity ticket as Abbott blasts Dutton’s lack of ‘conviction’
Answering your questions
How the Pope’s death impacted election week four
Housing help and tax cuts promised: Week three of the election tour
Where it went wrong for Albanese and Plibersek
The rise of the Teals: How independent MPs could shape the next government
What are the positive and negative impacts of immigration on Australia?
Should MPs who resign from their party also resign from Parliament?
What is the Coalition’s best-case Senate result?
WATCH | How will tariffs affect the economy, industry and the election?
Albanese leads, Dutton flails: Election Week Two
Will superannuation rules and tax change further?
What happens if the PM or opposition leader loses their seat?
What is a minority government?
Could Australia ever get fixed four-year terms?
Why this worker could be voting Liberal
Election Explainers
WATCH: Key election issues explained – The cost of living crisis
Journalist Glen Norris explains how each party is tackling the cost of living, and how it will play a significant part in the 2025 Federal election….
Key election issues explained: Anti-Semitism
NSW Political Correspondent Alexi Demetriadi explains how each party is tackling the key issue of Anti-Semitism, and how it will play a significant…
WATCH: How each party is tackling the key issue of healthcare
Senior health journalist Penny Timms explains how each party is tackling the key issue of healthcare, and how it will play a significant part…
Key election issues explained: Energy
Environment Editor Graham Lloyd explains how each party is tackling the issue of Energy, and how it will play a significant part in the 2025…
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Election Commentary
COMMENTARY
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.
COMMENTARY
Bandt’s loss is Albanese’s (second) sweetest victory of all
Adam Bandt’s utopian vision of turning the next parliament into the most progressive in the nation’s history may still be realised, it just won’t include him.
COMMENTARY
Don’t tremble over ‘culture wars’ – own them
Debates about what kind of culture we want in this country must respond to the times. But the values stay constant. Without a firm foundation of values, a political party is just a house of cards.
COMMENTARY
Beware the landslide: Ardern’s lesson for victorious Albanese
Labor’s sweeping victory on Saturday mirrors Jacinda Ardern’s 2020 landslide win in New Zealand. Yet three years later she was unceremoniously dumped from power.
COMMENTARY
Labor impetus surged after Dutton dumped work from home
The shock and awe moment came about 7.45pm on Saturday night when it became clear Dutton’s seat of Dickson and the neighbouring LNP seat of Bonner were going to fall to Labor.
COMMENTARY
Car levy should be first cab off the tax reform rank
Scrapping the luxury car tax in its 25th year should be the first step for the Albanese government to begin substantial tax reform with the states.
Latest election news
Allan’s double shots on taxpayers
Suburban Rail Loop fat cats put the ‘bean squeeze’ on Victorian taxpayers.
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.
NDIS firm’s secret bonuses exposed
NDIS provider Cocoon SDA Care offered staff secret extra bonuses for signing up clients with significant disabilities, in a program condemned for creating an incentive to pressure those needing support to act against their own best interests.
Bears resurrection causes a stew
The Cook government’s decision to pump at least $65m into supporting a Perth-based rugby league franchise has raised eyebrows in other sporting codes.
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.
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.
‘Pets enjoy greater legal protection than children’: push for smacking kids to be a crime
Smacking children should be against the law because it is akin to beating wives and slaves, more than 100 health and welfare experts have told the nation’s first review of ‘domestic discipline’ laws.
Push for Trump to ease up on China
The Albanese government is seeking to persuade the US to take a more considered approach with China when the two superpowers’ treasury and trade officials meet in Switzerland this week.
Unions threatening strike action on Snowy 2.0
Unions are threatening strike action on Australia’s biggest renewable energy project, the trouble plagued Snowy 2.0, as they push for pay rises totalling more than 30 per cent over four years.
LEAN ‘would tilt us into economic destruction’: Fitzgibbon
The pushback over Labor’s environmental wing comes as faction bosses meet in Canberra on Thursday to finalise the make-up of the ministry for the Albanese government’s second term.
Red tide continues to creep in the west
Teal independent Kate Hulett suffered her second close loss in as many months as Labor confirmed its best-ever result in WA.
Ley rises after scandals, setbacks
Despite her chequered past, Sussan Ley has emerged as a surprise contender to lead the Liberal Party — a move that would make her the first woman to hold the role.
Teals eye a future Queensland seat
Could Queensland become the next federal stomping ground for teal independents?
Why voters are waiting longer for election results
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.
Battle for Bradfield goes down to the wire
In one of the nation’s tightest electoral races, the Liberal Party candidate leads her teal opponent by only a couple hundred votes.
Libs claim Goldstein, Kooyong still close
Kooyong has come down to just 365 votes, while Goldstein has reverted to blue after three years in teal.
Territory of mourning for lost Linford
Hundreds gathered to farewell Darwin shopkeeper Linford Feick, whose death sparked urgent reform of the NT’s bail laws.
Top cop to stand down after tenure of tumult and triumph
NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb will stand down in September following a three-year tenure marred by controversies, but also achievements in tackling domestic violence and the force’s response to anti-Semitic attacks.
PM lashes Greens as Bandt ousted, Monique Ryan’s lead cut
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.
Election a victory for ‘anti-extremism’: billionaire Farquhar
The software billionaire says he is glad Australians ‘rejected extremism on the left or right’ as he accelerates a plan for start-ups to donate more equity to social causes.
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