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Peter Dutton becomes the new Liberal Party leader, as the Coalition enters the wilderness

Peter Dutton becomes Liberal leader as the party takes its first steps forward out of government. So, who is the new Opposition Leader?

ABC News

How Australia’s electoral system allowed voters to finally impose a ceasefire in the climate wars

Preferential voting opened a pathway for independents to bypass the right’s hyperpartisan approach to climate policy

The Guardian - AU

The electric car that turned heads around Canberra

In the 1940s, Canberra bureaucrat Roland Wilson built an EV in his backyard and regularly drove it from his home in suburban Forrest to his job in the Parliamentary Triangle

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Albanese will bring a different style of leadership to the PM's office –– can Australia make the adjustment?

One of the fundamental questions that emerges from the election of Anthony Albanese’s Labor government is whether Australia will put behind it a decade and a half of instability in the prime ministership.

The Conversation

Madonna King: If Peter Dutton has a soft side, now is the time to show it

Peter Dutton has made a name the hard head, the head-kicker, the Liberal warrior who has no interest in making friends on the other side of the chamber.

The New Daily

Australian police renew calls for national firearms database following mass shootings in the US

Existing information on gun ownership and tracking undermined by inaccurate, inconsistent and incomplete data across multiple jurisdictions

The Guardian - AU

After 138 school shootings this year, why can’t America enact gun control?

America is grappling withe gun control debate after yet another school shooting. Experts say its lawmakers could learn from Australia and Port Arthur.

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Liberal party should forgo ‘entitled’ Kooyong voters, says their own state Liberal MP

Tim Smith, who is retiring in November, says Coalition needs to ‘stop obsessing with the woke causes of inner-urban elites’ and focus on suburbs

The Guardian - AU

Dutton, set to become Liberal leader, wants people to see 'the rest of my character'

Peter Dutton has declared there is more to him than his tough side, as he formally announces he will stand for the Liberal leadership.

The Conversation

How the ‘reality-distorting machinery’ of the election campaign delivered sub-par journalism

'Reality-distorting machinery': The nightly television news coverage of the 2022 federal election was among the most juvenile and uninformative in 50 years.

The New Daily

How the 'reality-distorting machinery' of the federal election campaign delivered sub-par journalism

The nightly television news coverage of the 2022 federal election was among the most juvenile and uninformative in 50 years.

The Conversation

Wages and women top Albanese's IR agenda: the big question is how Labor keeps its promises

Industrial relations issues were front and centre when federal Labor last won office from opposition in 2007. The backlash against John Howard’s “Work Choices” reforms cost both his government and his own seat. Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard’s detailed “Forward with Fairness” policy provided a blueprint for the Fair Work…

The Conversation

Hang On, Exactly How Much Are We Paying Ex-PM Morrison Now He’s Been Booted Out?

Buy your bucket and fill it too.

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Federal election: Labor two seats away from majority as counting continues — as it happened

Labor edges closer to an outright majority in the lower house with projected victory in the seat of Richmond, taking the party's tally to 74.

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The Conversation

Did Australia just make a move to the left?

Political commentators often use the idea of a political spectrum from left to right as shorthand for understanding political ideologies, parties and programs. Derived from the arrangement of the National Assembly in the French Revolution, it has been a remarkably resilient form of political shorthand.

ABC News

Labor's Jerome Laxale snatches Liberal stronghold seat of Bennelong

The Labor Party claims the Liberal stronghold seat of Bennelong in Sydney's north shore with a significant swing.

The Conversation

A new dawn over stormy seas: how Labor should manage the economy

Labor has inherited an economy with a pretty full “head of steam”.

The New Daily

Alan Kohler: This was Julia Gillard’s election victory

It’s tempting to think the Coalition lost the election purely because of climate change, but there’s much more to it than that.

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The Guardian - AU

Stoking fear and hatred held the Coalition in power – finally Australia had enough

For the first time in a decade the logjam to change the country’s politics may be shifting

The New Daily

‘Definitely difficult’: Liberal Party suffers crushing election defeat

Liberal faithfuls watched on with blank disbelief as their leader Scott Morrison conceded the end of a decade-long Coalition reign.

ABC News

Labor, Anthony Albanese make history with 2022 federal election victory

The Labor Party has made history with their 2022 federal election win, securing more seats than the Coalition for the first time in 15 years.

ABC News

Following Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese around Australia in 2022 federal election campaign

Six weeks of campaigning. Six weeks of images. While some could argue there was a lack of policy ideas in the 2022 election campaign, there were plenty of photo opportunities.

The New Daily

Morrison’s whistle-stops span the nation, but five MPs were left to fight their own battles

Prime Minister Scott Morrison's conspicuous absence from five battleground seats has underscored his greatest challenge this election.

The Independent UK

Morrison first recent Australian leader to survive 3 years

Scott Morrison has become the most successful Australian prime minister in years just by standing for reelection on Saturday

The New Daily

Julia Banks: We can’t take another three years of same old, same old

Rather than having to “stick it out” with the same leadership for another three years, our nation needs to breathe a sigh of relief.

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