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One Nation leader Pauline Hanson, left, with her lower house MP and former Nationals leader, Barnaby Joyce.

Hanson offers Coalition preference deal in Farrer as Abbott warns of Liberal wipeout

Conservative warrior Tony Abbott hit the streets of Albury on Thursday to convince Liberal supporters to stick with the struggling party.

  • Paul Sakkal and Rob Harris

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One Nation candidate David Farley (left) and Barnaby Joyce campaigning in Farrer last week.

One Nation candidate says old money from Sydney and Melbourne is pouring into his byelection campaign

David Farley said denizens of Woollahra and Toorak were among those funding his fight for Sussan Ley’s old seat of Farrer in south-western NSW.

  • Paul Sakkal and Natassia Chrysanthos
One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce and Nationals leader David Littleproud.

Joyce accuses Littleproud of throwing in the towel: ‘No general!’

Barnaby Joyce told this masthead that David Littleproud’s remarks about the upcoming Farrer byelection, to be held days before the federal budget, were remarkable.

  • Paul Sakkal
Nick Flanagan, next to the Mulwala Canal near his property outside of Finley.

A protest vote is brewing in Sussan Ley’s seat – but it won’t be simple

Like many Australians, dairy farmer Nick Flanagan finds his WhatsApp group chat is a good barometer of what people are thinking about politics. Its contents will worry the Coalition.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
Pauline Hanson: Just say No

‘Put One Nation last’: Labor heavyweights want the party to contest byelection

Peter Beattie and Bob Carr have called on Labor to run in the Farrer byelection and preference the Liberals ahead of Pauline Hanson’s One Nation.

  • Rob Harris
Sussan Ley departs after a media conference where she announced she would resign from parliament in coming weeks.

Teals to the left, One Nation to the right: Why the byelection for Ley’s seat will be a test for Taylor

The Coalition will face a fresh test of how far its public support has fallen when former Liberal leader Sussan Ley’s regional NSW seat of Farrer goes to a byelection.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos and Brittany Busch
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The Liberals’ candidate for Bradfield Gisele Kapterian would be prepared to challenge the election result if she was provided indemnity by the party.

NSW Liberals push Greiner to fund Bradfield court challenge after 26-vote loss

Liberal candidate for Bradfield Gisele Kapterian is prepared to challenge her election loss if given indemnity from the party.

  • Alexandra Smith
Senator Kerrynne Liddle says claims a failed Voice referendum would harm reconciliation are ‘outrageous’.

Coalition senator fills in for Burke at citizenship ceremonies slammed by Dutton

Kerrynne Liddle spoke at a citizenship ceremony on behalf of Tony Burke on the same day Coalition colleagues implied he was using the events to swing votes in key seats.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
Former Prime Minister Scott Morrison with Liberal candidate Simon Kennedy at a polling booth on Saturday.

Liberals hold Scott Morrison’s old seat of Cook

The safe Liberal margin in the electorate of Cook and lack of a Labor candidate meant Simon Kennedy claimed almost 63 per cent of the primary vote in Saturday’s byelection.

  • Rachel Clun and Andrew Taylor
Liberal leader Peter Dutton and deputy Sussan Ley.

Dutton and Ley have created a foolproof what-not-to-do election guide

Thanks to their behaviour in the lead-up to and aftermath of the Dunkley byelection, the leader and deputy Liberal leaders risk being cast as the toxic twins of federal politics.

  • Niki Savva