Federal Election 2025

A wave of red has washed over WA, with Labor flattening the once influential Liberal power base.

LATIKA M BOURKE: Scott Morrison’s 2022 drubbing rendered the Liberals an endangered species, now Peter Dutton has made them near extinct.

While the Prime Minister said he wanted to wait for the full election results before finalising his post-poll Cabinet, the party’s left and right factions are already looking at two vacant portfolios.

AARON PATRICK: Liberal MPs will start to rebuild the party after they resolve a factional fight over the next leader.

The Liberals are picking through the rubble, and some MPs say the last people who should lead the rebuild are the ones who knocked it down in the first place.

A number of bosses used the Macquarie Australia Conference to call on the returned Labor Government to address the nation’s ongoing productivity issues.

As the Liberal Party grapples with its worst election result since the 1940s, senior members are pushing for gender quotas and broader diversity to rebuild trust and better reflect the electorate.

She is coming close to unseating Adam Bandt and leaving the Greens leaderless. So who is Labor’s Sarah Witty?

The Nationals’ imperilled deputy leader has blasted the Liberals after Labor’s landslide election win, putting tensions within the Coalition on full display.

The Foreign Affairs Minister has broken her silence on the current state of the Greens leadership, as the party suffered a major blow during the election.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told his political opponents to ‘get out of the way’ as he moves on his second-term agenda starting with student debt and housing.

The Coalition are expected to meet early next week to decide who will take on leadership after the worst election loss in its history. 

CAMERON MILNER: The real test of Anthony Albanese’s leadership begins after the celebrations fade, with voters expecting answers on housing, cost of living, and a long list of unfinished reforms.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will be forced to the negotiating table by the Greens in the Upper House if Labor hopes to deliver what he described as an ‘ambitious’ agenda ‘for all Australians’.

Andrew Hastie, the only WA Liberal to increase his primary vote, has confirmed he won’t run for the Liberal leadership.