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The biggest newsmakers – these are the people who grabbed our attention the most in this turbulent year of 2022.

Can the Liberal Party actually pull itself out of this while remaining a centre-right party that is relevant to urban conservatives?

It’s giving “hit The Woah or you’ll never see your family again”.

The federal political landscape was reshaped by a teal wave and the Victorian election will be the first real test of whether the states are on notice as well.

Election disclosures detail the millions of dollars raised and spent by the teal independents to defeat high-profile Liberal MPs in blue-ribbon seats at the May federal election.

Hawthorn and Kew seen as vital seats for the Victorian Liberals, still reeling from their federal election rout

The opposition leader’s doubling down on crusades that estrange the party from its inner-city heartland must have felt pretty eccentric from the teal corner

Next Thursday the Sydney Liberal Party faithful are being invited to pay $880 a seat for lunch and to listen to a budget reply.

“Restraint” – that’s what Treasurer Jim Chalmers claimed as the watchword of Tuesday’s federal budget. Perhaps the claim can be made in general, but when it comes to transport infrastructure, the budget is remarkable not for how different it is to budgets past, but how similar. It has left plenty…