Peter Dutton

EXCLUSIVENation

Walked or pushed: Joyce takes right turn

Former Liberal leader Peter Dutton has fired back at Barnaby Joyce’s defection claims, citing alarming footage of the former Nationals MP lying on a street as his motivation.

Sarah Ison

Politics NowNation

‘My concern was Barnaby’s welfare’: Dutton on why he asked Joyce to quit

Former opposition leader Peter Dutton says any move he made to get Barnaby Joyce out of politics was driven by concern for the ex-deputy PM.

Richard Ferguson, Thomas Henry, Sarah Ison and Bimini Plesser

FEEDING THE CHOOKSFeeding the Chooks

Labor is about to break its own gender rules (again)

Queensland Labor moves to create a new party deputy role in face of gender quota fight as the LNP VP tips a bucket on Peter Dutton and the party’s federal election campaign.

Sarah Elks, Michael McKenna and Mackenzie Scott

POLITICSNewsWire

‘Preposterous’: Embattled Lib defended

Liberal senators have come to Andrew Hastie’s defence after reported remarks savaging his performance.

Joseph Olbrycht-Palmer

POLITICSNewsWire

‘Preposterous’: Embattled Lib defended

Liberal senators have come to Andrew Hastie’s defence after reported remarks savaging his performance.

Joseph Olbrycht-Palmer

Politics NowNation

Dutton ‘avoided criticism of shadow ministers’: Libs’ election review boss sets record straight

Review co-chair Nick Minchin has sought to play down suggestion that former oppostion leader Peter Dutton laid significant blame on ex-defence spokesman Andrew Hastie for the May election loss.

Greg Brown

Party dramasPolitics

‘We were united under Dutton’: Liberal infighting growing headache for Ley

Liberal MP Sarah Henderson has praised the party’s unity under Peter Dutton as pressure mounts on Jacinta Nampijinpa Price to apologise for comments about Indian-Australians.

Noah Yim

COMMENTARYCommentary

PM, Bowen take us on a mystery climate tour

The irony of Labor’s ruthless attacks on Peter Dutton’s ‘$600bn nuclear plan’ is that the government has never put clear price tags on its renewables revolution.

Geoff Chambers

UPDATEDNewsWire

‘Too old’: Dutton shuts down comeback

Peter Dutton has made a surprising declaration about his political future, leaving his colleagues in no doubt where he stands.

Jessica Wang and Andrew Hedgman

NRL

Bookies’ brutal Broncos-‘Albo’ wedding sledge

Bookmakers reckon Peter Dutton is a better chance of getting invited to the Prime Minister’s wedding than the Broncos are of winning the premiership, writes Robert Craddock.

Robert Craddock

WA STANDOFFNation

Zempilas rebuffs Hastie, Cash on climate, flags

West Australian Liberal leader Basil Zempilas noted Peter Dutton’s emphatic defeat in explaining why the WA parliamentary party would not be adopting the positions.

Paul Garvey

INQUIRERInquirer

PM’s strategy looks suspiciously familiar as he targets Ley

The Marrickville brawler, a nickname once bestowed on Anthony Albanese by union colleagues for his political pugilism, knows he cannot apply the same aggressive tactics to Sussan Ley as he did to Peter Dutton. So he’s trying something else entirely.

Simon Benson

UPDATEDNewsWire

Dutton slayer’s touching tribute to late son

The single mum who defeated Peter Dutton in his long-held seat of Dickson has honoured her late 19-year-old son who died of leukaemia in 2024.

Jessica Wang

Politics NowNation

Ali France, who ousted Peter Dutton, pays emotional tribute to cancer-victim son

The new Labor MP, who unseated the former Liberal leader, has described encouragement from her late son Henry in her maiden speech. Earlier on the new Parliament’s first day, Greens deputy Mehreen Faruqi demanded Israel be sanctioned.

Rhiannon Down, Noah Yim, Sarah Ison and Ryan Bourke

newsNewsWire

Telling detail in Ley’s first major speech

Opposition Leader Sussan Ley made a bold move in the opening moments of her first major speech on Wednesday, setting her apart from Peter Dutton.

Jessica Wang

FEEDING THE CHOOKSFeeding the Chooks

LNP members lash Dutton’s ‘blokey’ campaign

Leaked documents reveal what some grassroots LNP members in Queensland really think about the disastrous federal election result, Peter Dutton’s nuclear policy, and the party’s “blokey” campaign messaging.

Sarah Elks and Mackenzie Scott

newsNewsWire

Ley to do one thing Dutton wouldn’t

Sussan Ley is set to make her first major address as opposition leader in a move she’s hoping will set her apart from her predecessor Peter Dutton.

Jessica Wang

COMMENTARYThe Weekend Australian Magazine

After the ABC evicted me due to old age, the hits just kept coming

As you may have read, I’ve had some bitter disappointments in recent months. But I do have some good news.

Phillip Adams

exclusiveNation

Liberal Party backflips again, this time on WFH

The Coalition will back dismantling barriers to working from home to help boost productivity, in a massive about-face on the agenda Peter Dutton took to the election.

Greg Brown

LettersLetters

Liberals have work to do in pointing out Labor failures

Apart from not attacking Labor’s poor first term, never did the Liberals warn voters of the radical plans Labor had for changing the country’s economic future.

EXCLUSIVEPolitics

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.

Sarah Elks

Coalition defeatPolitics

Littleproud takes swipe at Dutton

Nationals leader David Littleproud says the Coalition’s failure to neuter Labor criticism of its planned tilt towards taxpayer-funded nuclear power led to electoral defeat.

Jack Quail

UPDATEDNewsWire

New details on Albo’s historic election win

Labor’s chief election guru has delivered a behind-the-scenes look at Anthony Albanese’ stomping May 3 victory and the key reasons behind the historic result.

Duncan Evans

Politics NowPolitics

Nationals MP calls for quick return of Coalition

Darren Chester has pushed for the Nationals to rejoin the Coalition before parliament returns, declaring that remaining separated was handing Anthony Albanese a ‘free pass’.

Rhianon Down, Jack Quail and Paul Garvey

EXCLUSIVENation

The Liberals face a long rebuild – so why not start at the epicentre

When Sussan Ley and her battered, depleted Liberals begin the arduous – and likely long-term – task of winning back disenchanted voters, they might want to start at ground zero.

David Tanner

FEEDING THE CHOOKSFeeding the Chooks

Senator calls for national commission into Libs’ loss

An LNP senator from Peter Dutton’s home state of Queensland has called for a national inquiry to the Liberal Party’s bloodbath election loss, declaring women and under-40s have stopped listening.

Sarah Elks and Mackenzie Scott

EXCLUSIVEPolitics

Net zero without nuclear ‘impossible’: Nampijinpa Price

Liberal defector Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has told her new party that net zero emissions by 2050 is impossible without nuclear, as the conservative champion says Peter Dutton’s campaign ‘under-utilised’ her and was shackled by fear.

Rhiannon Down

CommentaryCommentary

Time to learn from Peter Dutton’s ‘high risk’ stand, Noel

Far from Noel Pearson’s vow for the referendum result to ‘be the end of it’, his recent claims about the Indigenous voice have brought the divisive political debate back into the spotlight.

The Mocker

commentaryCommentary

Did Trump really help Albanese win the federal election?

The US President didn’t dent Coalition hopes directly. But Labor acted as if he had. It worked. Anthony Albanese’s campaign succeeded in painting Peter Dutton in an orange shade. The LNP could not wipe off the fake tan quick enough.

Timothy Lynch

POLITICS NOWPolitics

Greens will always call out ‘genocide’: new leader Waters

Greens Leader Larissa Waters has declared the left-wing party will always call out ‘atrocities’ when they occur, in an allusion to the Middle East conflict, saying Jewish voters ‘don’t want a genocide either’.

Sarah Ison

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