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The fallout from Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s defection from the Nationals to Liberals has thrown both coalition parties into chaos and made the contest for opposition leader murkier.

AARON PATRICK: Both candidates have recovered from professional adversity. But can they turnaround their devastated party?

Senator Canavan wants to ‘bring back fighting spirit’ in a leadership challenge to Nationals incumbent David Littleproud

LATIKA M BOURKE: The decision to junk the EU call and delay it yet again, adds to growing concerns about a mismatch between the prime minister’s rhetoric and action.

The Greens are pondering who will take the reins of the minor party after losing their leader at the election, but will hold a powerful position in the Senate.

Former attorney-general Mark Dreyfus smiled as he sat in the second-row, metres away from his factional Labor allies who had toppled him. 

After almost a week of increasingly bitter campaigning in the shadows, acting Liberal leader Sussan Ley and shadow treasurer Angus Taylor publicly declared their candidacies for the leadership on Friday.

Australia’s first Muslim MP and most senior Jewish MP have both lost their ministerial positions in a shock move for which Labor insiders are blaming Deputy PM Richard Marles.

Women will outnumber men as an enlarged Labor caucus gathers for the first time since claiming a dominant federal election victory.

In a strongly worded statement, Paul Keating condemned the dumping of Ed Husic to elevate an MP from Richard Marles’ Victorian Right — a faction he said was ‘demonstrably devoid of creativity and capacity’.

Labor has increased its lead in the new WA seat of Bullwinkel to more than 300 votes, but Liberal candidate Matt Moran isn’t conceding defeat yet. 

The Indigenous senator from the Northern Territory may stand for deputy Liberal leader.

Liberal Party acting leader Sussan Ley was excluded from important campaign decisions by former leader Peter Dutton during and before the election, according to her supporters.

The Greens are leaderless after Adam Bandt conceded the seat of Melbourne, with the former minority party leader revealing the three reasons he thinks he’s out of a job.

One of the Coalition’s most vocal Senators, Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, has dropped a bombshell on the party days after it lost the election by a landslide.