1 hour ago Federal election results 2025 as it happened: Albanese gets back to business; Liberals search for new leader

Look back on our coverage of vote counting updates and developments around the nation as the PM took his first steps in his second term.

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3 h. ago The broken Liberals have a dilemma: was Angus Taylor the problem, or is he the solution?

Who can bring the party together? Nobody sounds convinced that Sussan Ley is the answer. Some are even more sceptical about Angus Taylor.

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3 h. ago WA news LIVE: Outgoing WA senator says Liberals must support women

Follow our live coverage here.

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3 h. ago Liberals take note: Nuclear failure has crowned clean energy

Peter Dutton’s power station policy was so comprehensively rejected by voters that it is off the table permanently.

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4 h. 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.

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7 h. ago Victoria hot seats LIVE results: AEC federal election vote count updates for Calwell, Goldstein, Wills, Kooyong, Bendigo and key Melbourne electorates as tight races continue

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

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8 h. ago Victoria hot seats LIVE results: AEC vote count updates for Goldstein, Kooyong, Wills and all key Melbourne electorates after Labor secures huge federal election victory

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

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8 h. 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.

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8 h. ago Angus Taylor, Donald Trump blamed for Coalition’s devastating defeat

Liberal senator Hollie Hughes has ripped into shadow treasurer Angus Taylor, saying he is incapable of leading the party.

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8 h. ago Victoria hot seats LIVE results: Kooyong back in play as Monique Ryan admits she could lose seat; Tight races in Wills and Goldstein, Labor holds Bruce

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

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12 h. ago Federal election results 2025 LIVE updates: Albanese gets back to business; Liberals search for new leader

Follow live as we bring you all the vote counting updates and developments around the nation as the PM takes first steps in his second term.

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14 h. 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.

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14 h. ago Smashed Liberals banished to the outer suburbs as Sydney’s political map is redrawn

The Coalition is set to hold fewer than a third of federal seats in NSW.

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24 h. 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.

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24 h. ago No love for nuclear or Dutton as Liberals’ last suburban seats go red

The Liberal Party’s eastern suburban heartland is gone in Melbourne, after voters rejected former leader Peter Dutton and unpopular policies such as nuclear power.

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25 h. ago Dutton critics are vindicated, but strong opposition is needed

Leadership of the Liberal and National parties is now more important than ever. The Westminster system of government requires a strong opposition

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26 h. ago NSW Liberals vow to stick to ‘sensible centre’ as Labor celebrates crushing victory

As his party sifted through the rubble of Saturday’s devastating defeat, NSW Opposition Leader Mark Speakman issued a rallying cry to appeal to women and multicultural voters and end “wild fluctuations” in energy policy. 

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27 h. ago On Saturday night, the Liberal Party looked like a train wreck

The Liberal Party knows how to win elections. It just needs to do the work.

Society

32 h. ago ‘Nothing more I could have done’: White concedes to Chaney in Curtin

Liberal candidate in Curtin Tom White has rung opponent Kate Chaney to concede defeat.

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32 h. ago Dutton was never a Trump clone. But he fell for the trap of MAGA

This election was shaped by two forces – Cyclone Alfred and Donald Trump – and neither spared the Liberal Party.

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