At some stage, the Liberals need to cauterise the gender wounds which are now routinely inflicted on the party by its ...

How can such a modest primary vote produce such a big majority of seats? The PM, long underestimated, ran a brilliant ...

Malcolm Fraser warned voters in 1983 they would have to hide their savings under their beds if Bob Hawke was elected. In the ...

The Liberal Party abandoned the city voters it lost in 2022 for the suburban voters in 2025. Now it has lost the suburbs.

The wipeout of Greens seats in the lower house is owed mostly to preference order but also sets a test for the progressive party.

As the Liberals deal with a comprehensive loss at last weekend’s election, there is division inside the party over what went wrong and what to do next.

If Dutton was leaning into the traditions of Gallipoli, when most Australians were of British descent, Wong was appealing to ...

In practice, our elections are a zero-sum game. No matter how unattractive the options, there must be a winner and a loser.

A ustralian life and politics have entered a new experiment. It is a 2020s Labor ascendancy based on Anthony Albanese’s leadership, likely to last for the rest of the decade, with Labor now positioned ...

Former Queensland Liberal premier Campbell Newman discusses outgoing Opposition Leader Peter Dutton losing his seat of ...

Had he supported the referendum he would have had the best chance of transforming himself into a supportable prime minister ...

The family rebellion against Mr Dutton and his party was strongest in his home state of Queensland, where the Coalition lost ...