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.
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.
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.
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.
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’.