The Latest Breaking News from Liberal Party

Plum jobs worth up to $500,000 a year were extended to Liberal Party-linked individuals by the Morrison government in the lead-up to the election, and many were not due to end for another two years.

Australian political parties reaching out to you with postal vote registration forms ahead of election day may be just as interested in your personal data as helping you cast a ballot.

SA Liberal candidate Allison Bluck apologises for telling voters she runs a nature trail on Kangaroo Island — a position actually held by a woman called Alison Buck.

The PM’s game plan is pretty simple: put forward as little as possible in the way of policies and cross fingers nothing blows up in his face.

The battle for one marginal seat could come down to wild-card candidates, as the race turns personal in the Western Sydney federal seat of Parramatta.

Australians overwhelmingly support trans rights, but Scott Morrison and his handpicked anti-trans women in sport candidate are trying to needle a political weakness — at the expense of trans people.

Good morning, early birds. The 2022 federal election is going to be Australia’s biggest, most expensive, and most complex election ever, and Indigenous leaders yesterday called for an urgent referendum on an Indigenous Voice to Parliament. It’s the news you need to know, with Emma Elsworthy.

Newcastle Herald readers have their say

Both men have spent a good part of their lives in politics but, come May 21, one will be prime minister and the other will likely face the end of his political career.

A survey of voters in the marginal seat of Paterson suggests that incumbent Labor member Meryl Swanson will be returned.

In at least one sense, Scott Morrison is the most successful Australian prime minister in years