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South Australia’s premier won a thumping victory at the state election.

Labor seeks to drive wedge between Hanson and working-class base

The re-elected Labor premier derided Pauline Hanson’s “landmine” comments and warned the minor party’s ascendancy could have federal implications.

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Opposition Leader Angus Taylor departing the Red Hill SupaExpress supermarket on Wednesday.

Champagne solutions: Taylor holds cost-of-living press conference in Canberra’s wealthiest suburb

Asked why he was talking bill shock in a suburb where the median house price is $2.1 million, the opposition leader said “nobody was immune”.

  • Nick Newling
Peter Dutton and Angus Taylor during the 2025 election campaign.

‘Absence of reflection’: Senior Liberals blame each other for election disaster

The review also asserts that the “party’s capacity to thoughtlessly offend” migrant voters was potentially a bigger problem than the desertion of Liberals by women.

  • James Massola
Opposition Leader Angus Taylor in Question Time on Tuesday.

Fury in the Liberal Party meant there was no time for protection rackets

The official review of the catastrophic 2025 election was always going to leak. The opposition leader, Angus Taylor was foolish, and/or naive in the extreme, to think that it could be kept secret.

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Liberal deputy leader Jane Hume at Parliament House.

Jane Hume’s straight talk can get her in trouble, but she says the ‘time for timidity is over’

The Liberal Party’s new deputy leader made high-profile mistakes in the last election but she knows being disliked is part of the job.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
Liberal leader Angus Taylor and deputy leader Jane Hume speak during a press conference after a Liberal Party leadership spill.

Taylor may shoot for the summit. Even his backers will settle for base camp

Can Angus Taylor re-establish the Coalition’s credibility? He could start by turning the volume down and addressing the opposition’s failings.

  • James Massola
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Senator Jane Hume will put her hand up for the position of deputy leader of the Liberal Party when a leadership spill is announced.
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Nation’s worst government? Jane Hume’s hyperbolic historical claim

New Liberal deputy leader Jane Hume says the Albanese administration is “the worst government in the nation’s history”. Big call, given the competition.

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Senator Jane Hume and Tim Wilson last year.

Price and Hastie return as Taylor revamps economic team

Opposition Leader Angus Taylor revealed his Liberal frontbench on Tuesday afternoon, four days after toppling Sussan Ley.

  • Paul Sakkal
Liberal luminaries at Katie Allen’s funeral, from left, Victorian opposition leader Jess Wilson, federal shadow treasurer Ted O’Brien, federal Liberal leader Sussan Ley, finance spokesman James Paterson and former treasurer Peter Costello.

Australian women turned their backs on Ley. But they won’t forgive Taylor for this assassination

Senior Liberal senator James Paterson has warned that his party is facing extinction. He has every right to be worried.

  • Katy Hall
Taylor said he wanted the Coalition to be the party of lower taxes.

Taylor challenges Albanese to work together on big spending cuts

The opposition leader and his deputy Jane Hume have acknowledged they made mistakes as the party’s economic team at the last election.

  • Brittany Busch and James Massola