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Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, who did not run for deputy Liberal leader after Angus Taylor lost the leadership ballot, says Mr Taylor should be on winner Sussan Ley's frontbench.

The new opposition leader's pitch conveniently air-brushes away her role as Peter Dutton's deputy and co-author of an agenda rejected by voters on May 3.

After more than a week of counting a winner can be projected in one of the tightest races in the country, giving the Liberals at least 41 seats in the next parliament.

Labor's David Smith retains the southern ACT seat of Bean, narrowly defeating independent candidate Jessie Price in a tight contest. 

Post-election analysis showed back in 2022 that the conservative side of politics was failing to attract younger voters. Why didn't it heed the warnings?

The Liberal candidate for Western Australia's new federal seat of Bullwinkel, Matt Moran, officially concedes defeat.

NT Labor claims Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price's defection is driven by "ego", while a long-time politics watcher labels the move a "considerable gamble".

After hitting 'rock bottom' at the federal election, the SA Liberals will be hoping the only way from here is up, writes state political reporter Leah MacLennan.

Labor took the glory, but beneath the surface of the election result an ongoing trend holds a warning for both major parties.

Labor has claimed victory in the seat of Bullwinkel, on Perth's eastern fringe, six days after Saturday's federal election handed a landslide victory to Anthony Albanese's government.

Far from Rome, the sky is thick with portent as Australia's political parties decide who has power in the current parliament. 

Sitting MP Josh Wilson's narrow win in the federal seat of Fremantle shows that, like the Liberals, Labor can be vulnerable to well-organised and well-funded independent candidates.

The ABC's election expert Antony Green calls the seat of Fremantle for Labor incumbent Josh Wilson, after a tight battle with independent Kate Hulett.

Liberal deputy Sussan Ley and Shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor firm as the two likely contenders for the party's leadership, as a split emerges among Coalition MPs over what to do with its nuclear proposal.

WA Liberal leader Basil Zempilas commits to doing "whatever it takes" to increase the party's female members, not ruling out 50:50 quotas for preselection ahead of the next election.

Just over 200 votes separate independent Nicolette Boele and Liberal candidate Gisele Kapterian, with neither willing to claim victory in the historically blue north shore electorate.

The Tasmanian government needs wins and momentum, not headlines that its closest allies consider the proposed Hobart AFL stadium too toxic to support.

The ABC projects Tim Wilson has won the seat of Goldstein, defeating one-term teal independent MP Zoe Daniel.

A former Liberal elder who spectacularly quit the party after leaving federal parliament lashes his previous colleagues, urging them to change or risk becoming a "lesser party" in the wake of another bruising election result.

The Liberal Party has been told it has a women problem for years now, but you only have to look at its results in Western Australia to see how it's still struggling to make progress.