Peter Dutton

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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

LAST POSTLetters

Election wasn’t a thumping approval of energy policy

Energy Minister Chris Bowen’s claim that 47 per cent of the Dickson electorate voted against Peter Dutton on the nuclear issue needs to be examined closely.

ANALYSISTechnology

Dutton’s woeful social media election campaign exposed

Did the Liberal Party think hiring the same digital agency that helped propel Scott Morrison to his ‘miracle’ election win would work similar magic?

Joseph Carbone

POLITICSNewsWire

Wannabe Libs leader rejects shock claim

Angus Taylor has rejected a shock claim levelled at him a day before he is set to contest the Liberal Party leadership.

Joseph Olbrycht-Palmer

UPDATEDNewsWire

Twist in battle for Liberal leadership

The Liberals will soon decide who will take over from Peter Dutton who led the party to its worst election defeat, but one name will be missing from the contest.

Hannah Wilcox

POLITICS NOWPolitics

Plibersek axed from environment in cabinet reshuffle; Wilson won’t run for party’s top job

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.

Noah Yim and Geoff Chambers

ReferendumIndigenous

Morrison, Dutton ‘deliberately ignored advice to back voice’

A longtime Coalition pollster has backed Noel Pearson’s claim that Scott Morrison and then Peter Dutton disregarded data showing the Indigenous voice was good politics for the ­Liberals.

Paige Taylor

NewsNewsWire

Sussan Ley’s huge announcement

Sussan Ley has officially thrown her hat into the ring for Liberal leadership, arguing the party must ‘rebuild trust’ with its voters.

Alexandra Feiam

EXCLUSIVEPolitics

Berejiklian backs Ley to restore Libs

Australia’s first female Liberal premier Gladys Berejiklian has endorsed Sussan Ley to succeed Peter Dutton as Liberal leader and ‘bring the party back to the centre’.

Geoff Chambers and Simon Benson

EXCLUSIVEIndigenous

‘Dog’ act: Noel Pearson unleashes on all sides

Noel Pearson has broken his long silence since the defeat of the Indigenous voice with an excoriating critique of both Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton.

Paige Taylor

EXCLUSIVEPolitics

The family seats Libs lost over work from home

Peter Dutton made a fatal mistake at the federal election, costing him and the Liberal Party a slew of seats in the nation’s crucial outer-suburban ‘family zone’.

David Tanner and Sarah Elks

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With Labor’s super-sized majority, it’s time to go big, Australia

The electorate has rejected the failed, pessimistic Little Australia marquee Peter Dutton traded under, as well as the limitless freebies of the post-apocalypse Greens. The main game will be elsewhere for a long, long time – meaning the PM has a golden opportunity.

Tom Dusevic

UPDATEDNewsWire

‘It’s a crisis’: Albo’s sausage admission

Anthony Albanese has faced a ‘crisis’ in the dying hours of the election campaign, calling into a radio station to share his struggle.

Jessica Wang, Nathan Schmidt, Andrew Hedgman, Duncan Evans and Clareese Packer

UPDATEDNewsWire

‘Back in the fight’: Taylor’s bid to lead Libs

Angus Taylor has put forward his official bid to lead the Liberal Party after a disastrous election result saw Peter Dutton ousted from parliament completely.

Joseph Olbrycht-Palmer

POLITICS NOWPolitics

Taylor, Ley battle for Liberal leadership, Littleproud challenged

Leadership candidate Angus Taylor, running against Sussan Ley with Dan Tehan deciding not to stand, pledges to rebuild the Liberals on a foundation including ‘reward for effort’; Nats leader David Littleproud faces a challenge. 

Mohammad Alfares, Kyle Rode, Rhiannon Down and Lily McCaffrey

commentaryCommentary

Liberals were crushed by millennial rage

For the first time in Australia’s history, there were more millennial and Generation Z voters than baby boomers at the election. The nation has just witnessed this newly formed cohort passing its judgment on the Liberals. The results couldn’t be clearer.

Stephanie Coombes

Election 2025Nation

Liberals missed all of their main campaign targets

Anthony Albanese made more visits than Peter Dutton to 11 of the 12 seats that Labor picked up from the Liberal Party.

David Tanner

EXPLOSIVE MOVEPolitics

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.

Geoff Chambers and Rhiannon Down

Risk of ‘hellish future’Nation

Warning for Greens as party faces a Bandt-less future

Former Greens leader Christine Milne says her party needs to focus on core green issues to be effective in the new parliament, as Adam Bandt called on the left to treat climate change like an ‘invasion’.

Matthew Denholm, Alexi Demetriadi and Lily McCaffrey

POLITICSNewsWire

Dutton’s icy words to Bandt after election loss

Peter Dutton has accused Adam Bandt of trying to spin his election loss in a cutting online post declaring his pride at helping defeat the Greens leader.

Jessica Wang

POLITICSNewsWire

Dutton’s six-figure post-politics pension

Unseated and ousted as opposition leader, Peter Dutton’s time in parliament is over. But taxpayers are set to keep paying him in retirement.

Joseph Olbrycht-Palmer

NewsWire

Greens leader ousted from seat

A second party leader has been ousted in Labor’s landslide election victory.

Hannah Moore and Jessica Wang

UPDATEDNewsWire

Dutton breaks cover after election loss

Peter Dutton has been seen in public for the first time since losing his seat and the federal election.

Jessica Wang

UPDATEDNewsWire

Dutton breaks cover after election loss

Peter Dutton has been seen in public for the first time since losing his seat and the federal election.

Jessica Wang

POLITICS NOWPolitics

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.

Noah Yim, Kyle Rode and Jack Quail

LAST POSTLetters

Greens boast may come back to bite them

Clearly, Greens leader Adam Bandt has not noticed that Peter Dutton, and the nation’s conservative voters, may succeed in keeping him out of parliament.

commentaryPolitics

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.

Simon Benson

NewsWire

Woman’s cheeky sledge to Dutton

The young woman delivered a cheeky jab at Dutton for the amount of times he visited petrol stations while failing to mention a policy that would specifically benefit women.

NewsWire Staff

policyPolitics

Dutton’s focus on mortgage belt fell flat

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.

Noah Yim

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