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Peter Dutton has claimed the only sector of Australian society likely to benefit from the proposed Voice to Parliament will be public servants

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says the Liberals have underestimated how many of their voters will support an Indigenous voice to parliament.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says the Liberals have underestimated how many of their voters will support an Indigenous voice to parliament.

Despite the political acrimony over the Voice referendum, what’s most striking is the similarities between the positions of the Coalition and the Labor government.

Peter Dutton and his demoralised team, shocked beyond belief by their Aston drubbing, say the party has to “rebuild”.

Saturday's Aston by-election looms as a yet another test of the Liberal Party's increasingly fragile position in Australian politics, and for its leader

A more impoverished Australia looms as our productivity plunge continues

This hostile approach to asylum helped the Australian right win elections, but it created divisions that still scar us, says Ben Doherty, a reporter for Guardian Australia

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When Dominic Perrottet gave a gracious concession speech after his defeat in the New South Wales election on Saturday night, it was hard to avoid favourable comparison with the United States. There was no sign of rancour or hyper-partisanship. He praised Labor’s Chris Minns for a clean campaign. He predicted…

The party is on track to govern in its own right after winning a series of previously safe Coalition seats