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Liberal Gisele Kapterian concedes defeat in Bradfield 145 days after federal election | Australian election 2025
Liberal candidate Gisele Kapterian has conceded defeat in the seat of Bradfield, abandoning her court challenge to overturn the result 145 days after the federal election. Kapterian, who narrowly lost to independent Nicolette Boele, released a statement on Thursday saying she was satisfied the correct outcome had been declared in the once blue-ribbon seat, held […]
Australia news live: Albanese heads to Trump reception in New York; number of regular gamblers rising | Australia news
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Mal Lanyon named as NSW new police commissioner Anne Davies Controversial deputy commissioner, Mal Lanyon has been named New South Wales’s new police commissioner, replacing Karen Webb. The 38-year-old veteran of the NSW Police is due to be announced by the […]
Albanese warns Netanyahu expansion of settlements in West Bank risks putting two-state solution ‘out of reach’ | Australian foreign policy
Anthony Albanese is warning Benjamin Netanyahu any move to expand Israeli settlements in the West Bank or annex parts of Palestine risks putting a two-state solution permanently “beyond reach”. As far-right members of Netanyahu’s governing coalition demand Israel annexe some of the territory that would be part of a future Palestinian state, Albanese told major […]
Sussan Ley fights for conservative airtime as she struggles to hold together a fractured opposition | Coalition
Aside from one crude caricature distributed in the crowd, Liberal leader Sussan Ley’s name was almost entirely absent from the rightwing Conservative Political Action Conference in Brisbane. But stripping away the sideshow attractions – Pauline Hanson’s pinball machine, George Christensen’s photo booth props – the thread running through the two-day event was the challenge Ley […]
Canavan claims Coalition ‘on the cusp’ of abandoning net zero as Ley urged to follow Dutton’s voice referendum tactics | Climate crisis
Nationals senator Matt Canavan has claimed the Coalition is “on the cusp of walking away from net zero”, urging Sussan Ley to campaign against the emissions reduction target by taking inspiration from Peter Dutton’s opposition to the Indigenous voice referendum. The conservative political conference Cpac has heaped more pressure on Ley to dump the climate […]
Australia news live: Bowen accuses National party of betraying farmers; Optus pledges investigation into triple-zero deaths | Australia news
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Spectre of black summer bushfires hangs over Optus outage, minister says McBain said the spectre of the black summer bushfires hung over the Optus outage, particularly given reports that the incident lead to at least four deaths. The minister is asked […]
Sussan Ley says she ‘misspoke’ after comments that Coalition doesn’t believe in setting climate targets | Sussan Ley
The Liberal leader, Sussan Ley, has indicated the Coalition won’t set a 2030 or 2035 climate target unless they return to government, saying her colleagues didn’t back locking in an emissions goal while they remained in opposition. It came as Ley had to clean up her own error, claiming she “misspoke” after initially saying her […]