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Politics live news Australia: Palaszczuk needs a new start, says Beattie; pressure on PM over Assange
Former leader Peter Beattie says Queensland Labor Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk should make a fresh start with a new agenda amid accusations of distraction and influence.
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Ousted Libs count cost of campaign clangers
As Sussan Ley works to patch up a splintered Coalition, the Liberal Party has finally laid bare the mistakes that led Peter Dutton to lose his own seat and more than a dozen others.
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Swings and misses: party’s polling debacle
In the Liberals’ war room in Brisbane, the catastrophic reality dawned early in the May 3 count. Recriminations began over internal polling. Funding could have been better directed. Defeated MP Luke Howarth shares his ‘what went wrong’.
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