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As former justice Virginia Bell prepares to deliver her findings on Scott Morrison's decision to secretly give himself power over several ministries, his ally and former treasurer Josh Frydenberg says the former PM is yet to apologise.

Former treasurer Josh Frydenberg says being ‘loyal to a fault’ to Scott Morrison was repaid with betrayal, and Jim Chalmers says Australia must beat China in the race for lithium mining supremacy.

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.

Former treasurer Josh Frydenberg’s loyalty to his boss Scott Morrison didn’t work out well for him, but US President Joe Biden’s friendship with PM Anthony Albanese played out well for Australia at the East Asia Summit in Phnom Penh on Sunday.

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…

Chalmers' budget has no surpluses, only deficit and debt. His “big national conversation” needs to be about why that’s OK.