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EXCLUSIVE: A tally of voting intentions circulating among Liberal MPs calculates the shadow treasurer ahead of Sussan Ley. This is how the votes are currently stacked.

Labor’s Ed Husic has mounted a scathing attack on the Deputy Prime Minister, describing him as a “factional assassin” who prioritised factional wars over showing leadership.

Nationals leader David Littleproud is standing behind his record as he stares down a challenge for the party's top position in federal parliament.

In a move that will likely further enrage some politicians within the Coalition, Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, has announced she will run for the deputy leadership of the Liberal party.

After over a week since Labor swept to a famous Federal election victory, one of the most hotly contested seats looks set to go to the Teals. 

Matt Moran has conceded defeat in the new Federal seat of Bullwinkel, bringing to an end a disastrous result in WA for his party in which it won no additional seats and lost another.

One week on from the landslide Labor victory, PM Anthony Albanese has his sights on the next election, while the Liberals and Greens are currently leaderless.

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.