7 h. ago Federal election results 2025 LIVE updates: Liberal elders back Ley for leader as Dutton stays silent; Major blow to Greens as leader Bandt set to lose Melbourne; Tight race in key seats

Follow live as we bring you all the news from the election aftermath and vote counting around Australia.

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8 h. ago China's President Xi Jinping arrives in Moscow for talks with Russian leader

China's President XI Jinping has arrived in Moscow for talks with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

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9 h. ago Lesson for the Liberals: do the opposite of what Peta Credlin says

Victoria was fertile ground for a coherent and considered Coalition pitch to voters. Driving a truck with Jacinta Allan’s face plastered on it wasn’t it.

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9 h. 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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18 h. 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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19 h. ago Federal election results 2025 as it happened: Greens leader Bandt set to lose Melbourne; Dutton silent on Liberal leadership future; Kooyong race tightens

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20 h. ago Victoria hot seats LIVE results: Ryan’s lead over Hamer in Kooyong doubles overnight; Bandt on track to lose Melbourne seat; Wilson says Goldstein win proves teals ‘not an unstoppable force’

Follow all the results from the crunch Victorian seats that could decide the election.

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20 h. ago Victoria hot seats LIVE results: Hamer slashes Ryan’s Kooyong lead to fewer than 400 votes; Bandt on track to lose Melbourne seat; Wilson says Goldstein win proves teals ‘not an unstoppable force’

Follow all the results from the crunch Victorian seats that could decide the election.

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20 h. ago Federal election results 2025 LIVE updates: Greens leader Bandt loses Melbourne; Dutton silent on Liberal leadership future; Kooyong race tightens

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20 h. ago Howzat! Mark Latham, Big Tobacco and his love of a cricket freebie

The outspoken former Labor leader received several tickets to the cricket courtesy of nicotine giant British American Tobacco.

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20 h. 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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22 h. ago Federal election results 2025 LIVE updates: Greens leader Bandt on track to lose Melbourne; Dutton silent on Liberal leadership future; Kooyong race tightens

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32 h. ago Jake Trbojevic has 160 minutes to retain role as NSW skipper

He was chosen as skipper because he embodies the traits of a Blues leader, but Jake Trbojevic is under pressure to retain his NSW spot.

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33 h. ago The TikTok generation swiped left on Peter Dutton this election

Younger voters dominated the electoral roll, but the Liberals couldn’t find them.

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33 h. 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.

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43 h. ago Liberals claim Goldstein as nearby MPs battle to stay in office

Federal election vote counting continues with a number of Melbourne seats still on a knife's edge, with the Greens and the Teals trying to stave off challengers.

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43 h. ago Federal election results 2025 as it happened: Liberal Wilson wins back Goldstein from teal Zoe Daniel; Adam Bandt at serious risk of losing seat

Take a look back at all the highlights from our national coverage of election developments from around the country on Tuesday, as the PM takes his first steps in his second term.

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44 h. ago Scrap nuclear: key Liberal senator wants radioactive energy plan buried

The move comes as deputy Liberal leader Sussan Ley and shadow treasurer Angus Taylor approach immigration spokesman Dan Tehan to serve as deputy.

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46 h. ago Dutton tried to make my people political footballs. Australians chose not to play

The former opposition leader appeared to assume that because the country rejected the Voice to parliament, he had a green light to keep attacking Aboriginal people.

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47 h. ago Tehan firms as kingmaker in Liberal leadership battle as polling leak sparks recriminations

MPs and long-term campaigners said the leak of scathing confidential research was unprecedented.

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