Political Parties and Movements

Sussan Ley will be the new Liberal leader alongside former energy spokesperson Ted O'Brien who will be deputy leader.

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 Liberals, Greens and Nationals will consider their leadership this week as Labor weighs a new frontbench amid internal jostling.

Labor maintained their key seats in Western Sydney, but it was not without a fight.

The promise by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to not leave anyone behind struck a chord with many in the Indian diaspora.

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

The Greens are expected to vote for a new leader late next week, after Adam Bandt's surprise loss in his seat of Melbourne left the minor party reeling. 

Firebrand senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price's shock defection to the Liberal Party is condemned by one insider as a hostile takeover attempt and a form of "desperate branch stacking" to boost Angus Taylor's leadership hopes. 

Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has announced she will join the Liberal Party as debate continues over the party's next leader. 

Greens leader Adam Bandt has little in common with defeated Liberal leader Peter Dutton, but the pair now share the misfortune of being party leaders who lost their own seats in an election that saw Labor romp home.

The former Liberal member says he's humbled to gain another term in government and criticised the departing independent for not conceding defeat.

The ABC's election computer projects independent candidate for the ACT seat of Bean Jessie Price will finish ahead.

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.

Reactionary newspapers and the outdoor advertising sector might have immediately profited from the last few weeks of the election campaign but it didn't seem to help politicians at the polls.  

What data about voters' age, income level and home ownership status can tell us about the election result.

Kate Hulett, who has said she will be "raging" against a proposed Woodside gas extension if elected, may be delivered to parliament thanks to the Liberals preferencing her above Labor.

While regional voters have bucked the Labor trend in Western Australia, they are also drifting away from both major parties.

Despite spending $60 million on campaign advertisements, Clive Palmer's Trumpet of Patriots party has failed to win a single seat in the lower house.

Liberal internal polling was predicting as late as the final week that it would pick up seats, leaving it sleepwalking into disaster.

Nationals MP Michael McCormack says his party will push for more shadow ministries because it now makes up a greater percentage of the Coalition.