21 h. ago Tim Wilson weighs tilt at Liberal leadership as Nationals’ vote threatens Coalition agreement

Leadership votes will be held for both the Liberal Party and the Nationals in Canberra in a defining week for the future of conservative politics in Australia.

Politics

45 h. ago Mark Kenny: ‘Sussan Ley is clearly the more sensible choice to lead the Liberal Party’

Professor Mark Kenny has been analysing federal politics for 30 years. He says the party of Menzies and Howard must now reconnect with the people, be of the people, to be relevant.

Politics

2 d. ago After driving into ‘an electoral dead end’, where to now for the Liberal Party?

The Liberal Party abandoned the city voters it lost in 2022 for the suburban voters in 2025. Now it has lost the suburbs. Where does it go from here?

Events

3 d. ago NT Nationals weigh retribution against Price for defection to Liberals

Senator Matt Canavan will challenge David Littleproud for the Nationals leadership, while Sussan Ley and Angus Taylor will fight for the Liberal Party’s top job.

Politics

3 d. ago Liberals and Nationals face duelling leadership battles as Coalition infighting worsens

Senator Matt Canavan has declared he will challenge David Littleproud for the Nationals leadership, just hours after Sussan Ley and Angus Taylor declared they would fight for the Liberal Party job.

Politics

3 d. ago Sussan Ley, Angus Taylor declare leadership tilts with focus on women

The Liberal deputy leader said her appointment would send a strong signal to Australian women but declared her candidacy was about much more than gender.

Politics

3 d. ago Sussan Ley declares Liberal leadership candidacy after party ‘let Australian women down’

The Liberal deputy leader said her appointment would send a strong signal to Australian women but declared her candidacy was about much more than gender.

Politics

3 d. ago Gina Rinehart and the senator who wants to ‘Make the Liberal Party Great Again’

Australia’s richest person slammed the opposition for not being Trumpian enough. Before the election she dined with a Liberal backbencher who firmly agreed.

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4 d. ago Jacinta Price defects to Liberals, expected to run as Angus Taylor’s deputy

The shock move has effectively blown apart the Coalition, angering Liberal moderates and devastating the National Party.  

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4 d. ago Jacinta Price to defect to Liberals to join Angus Taylor’s leadership team

Price is a Country Liberal Party MP who has previously chosen to sit with the National Party.

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4 d. ago Ley gets backing from party elders as Liberal leadership battle grows hostile

Others are throwing their support behind shadow treasurer Angus Taylor, with duelling files being circulated by allies that threaten ongoing instability.

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5 d. ago Dutton ‘had written me off’: How Tim Wilson won back Goldstein, despite Liberal baggage

Tim Wilson says winning back the seat of Goldstein was a critical milestone for the Liberal Party to prove that teals could be beaten.

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5 d. ago She went from punk rocker to pilot. Now Sussan Ley wants to be Liberal leader

There is no map to guide a shattered Liberal Party through its worst defeat, but Sussan Ley is game to try. Her upbringing and early life explain why.

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5 d. ago The climate won’t change for the Liberals without more women and fewer oldies

The Liberal Party is the Holden Commodore of politics. And it’s not roadworthy.

Politics

6 d. ago Voters gave my party a lesson. We Liberals can no longer cover our ears

Unless the Liberal Party learns the lesson it has been handed by the voters, it will be a permanent party of opposition.

Politics

6 d. ago Pollsters’ leaked plea to Dutton as campaign faltered: ‘Lighten up, offer tax cuts’

Leaked documents from the campaign’s inner circle show the Liberal Party’s pollster was raising the alarm about Dutton’s tough exterior.

Economics

7 d. ago The Liberal Party is still beholden to a small cohort of angry men. Women have had enough

I tried many times to meet Peter Dutton about the party’s women problem. It’s clear this wasn’t a priority for him.

Politics

7 d. ago The Liberal Party does not need a renovation. It’s a knockdown rebuild job

If we are to rebuild the party, we – its members – must stop listening to our own delusional garbage. The Liberal Party machine is both moribund and dysfunctional.

Society

7 d. ago This thumping election result shows how Australians do not like division

Anthony Albanese’s landslide victory and the self-destruction of the Liberal Party is a political watershed.

Politics

8 d. ago South Australia at epicentre of Liberal party's election disaster

Labor conquered Adelaide by claiming every single metropolitan seat including one it hadn't held for more than half a century.

Politics