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It's honestly difficult to remember a week where the political landscape has shifted as dramatically as it has this week. Labor won a crushing victory last Saturday, and the victorious PM has been walking on air since then. 

He's assembling his huge caucus for their first post election victory meeting, but that's been promptly followed, by a factional fight over the last few days over front bench positions, which has left the only Muslim cabinet minister Ed Husic and the only Jewish cabinet minister, Mark Dreyfus, shown the door. 

The Greens have lost their leader, Adam Bandt, who failed to win his seat. It's unclear who will emerge as the new Greens leader and what direction the party will now go in. 

And then there's the Liberals, who lost their leader, Peter Dutton, and face what some are calling an existential crisis.

What direction will it now go in?

Fiona Scott is federal vice president of the Liberal Party and a former member for Lindsay in Sydney's outer West, she joins Insiders: On Background. 

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