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Election 2022: Labor in charge as Morrison era ends

Dr Monique Ryan thanks a "respectful" Josh Frydenberg after he conceded the race for the seat of Kooyong. The former treasurer described the last 12 years as "an incredible privilege".

NSW Liberal Treasurer Matt Kean says the Scott Morrison government paid the ultimate price for abandoning moderate voters and the party needs to "get its act together" and stop shifting to the right.

Elections are a test – the ultimate test, really – of those who serve as parliamentarians and those who aspire to serve. Scott Morrison asserted quite absurdly early in the 2022 campaign that the election was not a popularity contest. Clearly, the opposite is true. An election involving every eligible…

It is pretty human to crave the approval of peers and to hope for more of the same, even if unconsciously.

Extreme weather events are the new normal. The use of nuclear weapons by Vladimir Putin’s Russian military is now an unthinkable possibility. And Xi Jinping’s China, our largest trading partner and rising superpower, is pulling down the shutters.

Labor has inherited an economy with a pretty full “head of steam”.

Higher education did not figure prominently in the election campaign. The biggest issues facing the sector, in particular the arts, humanities and social sciences, could never be fully addressed in six weeks, but the Australasian Council of Deans of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (DASSH) urges the incoming Labor government…

It’s tempting to think the Coalition lost the election purely because of climate change, but there’s much more to it than that.