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Good morning, early birds. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s first ministry will be sworn in today with a record 10 women in his 23-person cabinet, and newly minted Energy Minister Chris Bowen says he deliberately designed his climate policies so he wouldn’t need the Greens’ support in the Senate. It’s the…

A few weeks ago Peter Dutton would have been contemplating, in the event of the Morrison government’s likely defeat, contesting the Liberal leadership against Josh Frydenberg and probably losing.

Preferential voting opened a pathway for independents to bypass the right’s hyperpartisan approach to climate policy

The key to understanding the catastrophic election result for the Coalition is sitting in plain sight: Voters haven't changed, the Liberal Party has.

One of the fundamental questions that emerges from the election of Anthony Albanese’s Labor government is whether Australia will put behind it a decade and a half of instability in the prime ministership.

Dutton has a delicate task ahead if he becomes Liberal leader. If he tacks too far right, he could easily split his own party

Senior Labor MP Tanya Plibersek has apologised to Liberal MP (and incoming new party leader) Peter Dutton for likening him to Voldemort.

We can replace coal power with renewables and storage, electrify everything, create a renewable export industry and grow clean energy supply chains