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Opposition Leader Angus Taylor during question time on Monday.

Taylor drops Dutton-era hostility to business, as Canavan calls for tariffs

An average Australian will be $35,000 worse off over the next decade under Labor, Opposition Leader Angus Taylor will warn in his first major economic speech since becoming opposition leader.

  • Paul Sakkal

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Former Liberal Party leader Peter Dutton.

Inquiry into Brethren election involvement calls on Dutton to appear

Committee chairman Jerome Laxale wants the former opposition leader to explain the nature of the relationship between the party and the church group.

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Just two years ago Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O were inking a multimillion-dollar contract.

They got their $100 million contracts – in a Louis Vuitton briefcase. This week, it all fell apart

The implosion of The Kyle and Jackie O Show is a seismic event in Australian radio.

  • Calum Jaspan, Kishor Napier-Raman and Karl Quinn
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The good, the bad and the ugly of the Liberal Party review

The party’s post-mortem of its disastrous federal election is far from pretty, but so has been its attempt to cover it up.

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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.

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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.

  • Niki Savva
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Former Liberal leader Peter Dutton on election day in May. His unpopularity with voters was a major factor in the Coalition’s loss.

‘Unprofessional attempt at a hit job’: Dutton lets fly as Liberal review leaks

Former Coalition leader Peter Dutton has described the Liberal Party’s suppressed election review as a gratuitously personal hit job after the full report was leaked to this masthead.

  • James Massola and Paul Sakkal

Hanson’s surge is just a protest vote? The one notion that imperils Liberals

At the last two elections, the Coalition parties have remained largely immovable. Their voters, on the other hand, have been willing to shift.

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Opposition Leader Angus Taylor.

Explosive Liberal election review to be suppressed

The review has become mired in controversy since Peter Dutton raised serious concerns over its contents in December.

  • James Massola and Paul Sakkal

If the ISIS women and children come home, Australia will be safer

I’ve been dealing with these mothers and children since 2015. Some of them have known nothing but the barbed-wire enclosure of the camps.

  • Jamal Rifi