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Byline: Martin Farrer Morning. It passed a stack of new laws last week but the Albanese government is in election peril if our latest Guardian Essential poll is anything to [...]

Australia's two major political parties will more than double their public funding at the 2028 federal election to reap a combined $140m under the government's proposed changes to electoral laws, [...]

Byline: Gabrielle Chan The state of democracy has understandably been getting a lot of press lately, as the US election campaign enters its final hours. It is a long way [...]

Byline: Rafqa Touma and Luca Ittimani For half an hour, the 30 Australians gathered in a North Sydney pub moved in unison with their counterparts in Palm Beach, Florida. When [...]

Byline: Mike Hohnen Welcome, readers, to Afternoon Update. The United States election is in full swing. North Carolina became the first battleground state in the US to be called, and [...]

Byline: Amanda Meade Media correspondent Nine's 2GB radio host Ben Fordham has pulled out of a Liberal party fundraiser in Kirribilli, saying he did not realise the event was raising [...]

Byline: Judith Brett What would Robert Menzies think of today's Liberal party as it celebrates 80 years since its founding in 1944? His first reaction would be pleasure that it [...]

Good morning. With the US election just two days away, Donald Trump's staff are said to be feeling confident about his chances, even though the polls show him and Kamala [...]

Byline: Karen Middleton Political editor When politicians start talking about abortion law, it's often more about the politics than the law. When this occurs in the heat of an election [...]

Byline: Bob Brown Australia is a nation with no treaty or agreement with the people dispossessed by its invasion and colonisation. Senator Lidia Thorpe's challenge to King Charles on Aboriginal [...]

Byline: Karen Middleton and Josh Butler Senior Coalition women have rebuked Jacinta Nampijinpa Price's comments about abortion, saying the Liberal party had 'no interest in unwinding women's reproductive rights' and [...]

Byline: Ben Raue While the Liberal party managed to hold on to two of the three seats holding byelections yesterday, it was undoubtedly a bad result and a disappointment, with [...]

Byline: Nino Bucci and Sharlotte Thou The new government threw barbs at 'do-gooders down south', accused former chief ministers of gaslighting Territorians, and one MP even used the term 'intergenerational [...]

Byline: Karen Middleton Man buys house. Big deal. That's the end-of-week take among some in the upper quarters of the Labor party on the prime minister's decision to buy a [...]

Byline: Nino Bucci Justice and courts reporter The incoming Northern Territory government has followed through on an election commitment to tackle a 'crime crisis' by urgently introducing laws to lower [...]

Byline: Adeshola Ore Ousted Victorian Liberal MP Moira Deeming received voicemail messages from people 'looking for a Nazi', suggesting that she 'kill herself' and telling her to 'move in with [...]

Byline: Karen Middleton The former Northern Territory Labor attorney general Chansey Paech has accused the new Country Liberal party government of planning to introduce a set of tough law-and-order measures [...]

Byline: Alan Vaarwerk Good afternoon. The former Labor turned crossbench senator Fatima Payman has launched a new political party, which she has described as being 'for the disenfranchised, the unheard [...]

Byline: Paul Karp Chief political correspondent Fatima Payman's chief of staff has encouraged speculation the Western Australian senator will create a political party to run Senate candidates including in other [...]

Byline: Catie McLeod Libertarians who fear 'smart cities' technology will be used to curtail freedoms have been elected to councils across New South Wales after the Liberal party failed to [...]

Byline: Adam Morton Climate and environment editor The Western Australian Labor government has been accused of shelving plans to introduce climate change laws before a state election next March after [...]

Byline: Van Badham I spend an uncommon amount of time in South Australia for a person who doesn't actually live there; I'd never heard of South Australian Liberal MP Ben [...]

Byline: Adeshola Ore Ousted Liberal MP Moira Deeming could have 'worked out' she was 'walking into a disaster' before she attended and spoke at a 2023 'Let Women Speak' rally [...]

Byline: Ben Smee Queensland state correspondent Companies linked to property developers have given more than $500,000 to Queensland's large political parties before the state election, as experts warn the laws [...]

Byline: Tamsin Rose NSW state correspondent The New South Wales Libertarian movement is taking political plays from arch rivals in a bid to become to the Liberals what the Greens [...]

Byline: Catie McLeod and Sharlotte Thou The counting of votes has resumed to determine the makeup of New South Wales's 128 councils for the next four years. The main story [...]

Byline: Adeshola Ore Victoria's opposition leader, John Pesutto, 'tarred' ex-Liberal MP Moira Deeming with 'the Nazi brush' as he attempted to force her resignation from the Liberal party, the federal [...]

Byline: Catie McLeod The Libertarian party could have up to 15 councillors across New South Wales and take control of a major regional council following the Liberal party's failure to [...]

Byline: Ben Raue Local council elections never have just one story -- in each local council, different issues, candidates and parties dominate the debate. But there is no doubt that [...]

Byline: Catie McLeod More than 120 people running in the New South Wales local government elections have been identified by researchers as possible 'fringe' candidates, including conspiracy theorists and people [...]

Byline: Paul Karp Chief political correspondent The Country Liberal party's plan to lower the age of criminal responsibility back to 10 in the Northern Territory is 'really concerning' and part [...]

Byline: Karen Middleton Political editor Julia Gillard is urging the Labor party never to remove its 50% female quota for parliamentary candidates despite surpassing it federally, warning there are forces [...]

Byline: Ben Smee Queensland state correspondent 'Having an intelligent conversation with people works,' says Justine Davis, the new independent member for the Northern Territory electorate of Johnston, in Darwin's northern [...]

Byline: Karen Middleton Peter Dutton has dismissed the treasurer and prime minister labelling him 'divisive', saying the pair want to focus on anything but their failure to manage the economy. [...]

Byline: Karen Middleton Political editor Northern Territory criminal law faces an overhaul with repeat and violent alleged offenders to be refused bail and the age of criminal responsibility lowered again [...]

Byline: Daisy Dumas block-time published-time 11.28pm BST Fresh from a resounding win in the Northern Territory election, the Country Liberal Party will get to work tackling crime. Labor suffered a [...]

Byline: Catie McLeod It's Friday morning in Sydney's Forestville and the late-winter sun is shining on a suburban shopping centre that feels a world away from the chaos on Macquarie [...]

Byline: Martin Farrer Morning, everyone. It's been unseasonably hot for August and it's going to get hotter in the coming week for the majority of Australians as a 'heat engine' [...]

Byline: Martin Farrer Morning everyone. Our top story this morning is that the attorney general has approved legal assistance for Anthony Albanese and Bill Shorten in relation to defamation threats [...]

Byline: Ben Raue The failure of the Liberal party to nominate almost a third of their candidates for the New South Wales local government elections was an embarrassment for the [...]

Byline: Royce Kurmelovs block-time published-time 12.29am BST Littleproud has refused to say whether he has confidence in statements by the head of ASIO, Mike Burgess, that, following proper procedure, he [...]

Byline: Catie McLeod While many of his former colleagues were furious this week, local councillor Nathan Tilbury has been feeling pretty happy as a formal Liberal. Two days before the [...]

Byline: Ben Smee The former Queensland premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has taken a post-politics job on the board of Australia Post. Palaszczuk was appointed by the Labor federal government to the [...]

Byline: Catie McLeod Disappointed New South Wales Liberal councillors are not ruling out taking legal action against the party, and others are demanding their money back after an administrative disaster [...]

Byline: Catie McLeod The New South Wales Liberal leader, Mark Speakman, says the party's state director, Richard Shields, must resign immediately after a 'monumental stuff-up' over next month's local government [...]

Byline: Catie McLeod Former federal Liberal minister Philip Ruddock has claimed property developers, supported by people within his own party, were behind a 'professional campaign' to oust him as mayor [...]

Byline: Benita Kolovos Victorian state correspondent What a difference a year makes. After being unceremoniously booed at the Victorian Liberal party council in 2023, the opposition leader, John Pesutto, received [...]

Byline: Luca Ittimani Good afternoon. The US vice-president, Kamala Harris, is gaining momentum to take the Democratic party nomination for president following Joe Biden's historic decision to pull out of [...]

Byline: Amy Remeikis and Benita Kolovos The Construction, Forestry, Maritime Employees Union -- better known as the CFMEU -- is one of the biggest and most influential unions in Australia. [...]