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Nationals leader David Littleproud with new Liberal leadership team Angus Taylor and Jane Hume on Tuesday.

Taylor, Littleproud say migration must be cut to free up housing

The opposition is discussing changes that would make it harder for people to gain permanent residence and citizenship by proving they were law-abiding and contributing to the economy.

  • Paul Sakkal

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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.

  • James Massola
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney addresses parliament.

Question time as it happened: Canadian PM Mark Carney addresses parliament, Labor’s FOI bill ditched in Senate

Question time returns to the House of Representatives after Canadian leader Mark Carney addressed a joint sitting of parliament earlier today.

  • Nick Newling
Opposition spokesman for housing Andrew Bragg.

Labor offered Coalition more staff to support dead FOI bill, says Bragg

Liberal senator Andrew Bragg has revealed a negotiating tactic from the government in seeking support for the controversial bill that was shelved on Thursday.

  • Nick Newling
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
Nationals leader David Littleproud delivers a pep-talk on Tuesday.

We might come last: Littleproud talks down byelection chances as leadership rivals circle

In an interview on this masthead’s Inside Politics podcast, the under-pressure leader denied that he split the Coalition in January to blow up Sussan Ley’s leadership.

  • Paul Sakkal
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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.

  • 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.

  • Niki Savva

What’s not to like? Allan and Wilson lock horns in Insta fight

When Premier Jacinta Allan’s follower count doubled on Instagram, both the government and the opposition cried foul.

  • Fiona Byrne and John Buckley
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