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The teal wave: Meet the pro-climate women who took on the Liberal Party and won

A wave of independent, teal candidates running on climate action and transparency rocked the election – causing major upsets for the Liberal Party.

The New Daily

‘Definitely difficult’: Liberal Party suffers crushing election defeat

Liberal faithfuls watched on with blank disbelief as their leader Scott Morrison conceded the end of a decade-long Coalition reign.

The New Daily

Tony Abbott and Scott Morrison have emptied the Liberals’ broad church

The party has been routed in its metropolitan heartland – the moderate wing has been decimated

The Guardian - AU

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Australian election 2022: Anthony Albanese ‘humbled’ to be next PM as voters abandon Coalition

Labor leader pledges to implement Uluru statement and to end climate wars, while Scott Morrison says he will stand down as Liberal leader after defeat

The Guardian - AU

Scott Morrison’s faithful downcast as second election miracle falls short

Soft aimless jazz replaces news coverage at the Liberal reception in Sydney with bewildered supporters trying to piece together what went wrong

The Guardian - AU

Scott Morrison defeated – Labor to govern in minority or majority

The Morrison government has been resoundingly defeated, with Labor headed for office, although whether in a minority or majority was unclear late Saturday night.

The Conversation

'More time to be a dad': Australian treasurer poised to be ousted from parliament

Australian Treasurer Josh Frydenberg was poised to become one of the country's highest-ranking cabinet ministers to ever be voted out of parliament on Saturday as he acknowledged it would be difficult to cling onto his seat in the national election.

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Teal independents punish Liberal moderates for inaction on climate crisis and integrity commission

Climate 200 convenor says ‘people who called themselves moderates didn’t deliver’ while Labor argues election shows ‘teals are eating the Liberal party alive’

The Guardian - AU

Josh Frydenberg faces federal election loss in Kooyong, as 'teal' independent Monique Ryan pulls ahead

Deputy Liberal leader Josh Frydenberg has acknowledged the task ahead of him, saying it will "difficult" but not impossible to hold onto his inner-Melbourne seat of Kooyong as he fights to stave off a challenge from "teal" independent Monique Ryan.

ABC News

Labor candidate Dan Repacholi claims victory in the Hunter

Election 2022: The scene from the Hunter electorate as the counting takes shape

Newcastle Herald

Ugly Kooyong campaign goes down to wire

Voters in the key Victorian seat of Kooyong are having a final say on whether Treasurer Josh Frydenberg holds off "teal" challenger Monique Ryan.

AAP

Bruising battles in Victorian 'safe seats'

Legal fights over campaign material and the threat of independents ousting major party players are among the headlines of polling day in Victoria.

AAP

Morrison’s whistle-stops span the nation, but five MPs were left to fight their own battles

Prime Minister Scott Morrison's conspicuous absence from five battleground seats has underscored his greatest challenge this election.

The New Daily

Australians ‘uniformly worried’ about economy on election eve

Opposition Labor party maintains lead ahead of Saturday election amid rising uncertainty about the future.

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Chinese-language publisher offers election candidates gushing praise on WeChat. But the flattery comes with a price tag

A mysterious media agency is behind a fee-for-service offering to federal election candidates, including Treasurer Josh Frydenberg, placement of favourable news articles and interviews on the Chinese-language social media platform WeChat.

The Guardian - AU

Cabinet committee blocked plan to double Australia’s support to Pacific, election-eve leak reveals

‘Extraordinary’ revelation about national security decision shows the government is ‘falling apart’, Labor says

The Guardian - AU

Australia election: voters to go to polls in battle of ‘bulldozer’ and ‘builder’

Opposition Labor party’s lead in polls has narrowed in final week of an attritional campaign

ABC News

Whether it was climate, integrity or the economy, no topic was safe from political spin in the 2022 election campaign. Here are the facts

Politicians were spinning hard for Australian's votes during the 2022 election. So who got their facts straight, and who missed the mark?

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Hundreds of millions of dollars in JobKeeper went to a group of private schools that grew their surpluses to almost $1 billion

Most private schools that took JobKeeper increased their income during the first year of the pandemic, including some of Australia's most exclusive schools.

The Guardian - AU

Labor defends $7.4bn increase in deficit to fund election promises

Jim Chalmers says investments in childcare and cleaner energy are necessary and further budget savings could later be identified

The Independent UK

Australian conservative party faces teal independent threat

Sydney businesswoman Allegra Spender has an impeccable pedigree for a career in Australian politics

The Guardian - AU

Gas industry and Coalition reach for a get-out-of-catastrophe-free card in climate crisis Monopoly

Carbon capture and storage isn’t working close to a scale that would significantly lower emissions – despite billions in taxpayers’ cash thrown at it

ABC News

What are the rules around truth in political advertising in a federal election?

Signs falsely depicting independent candidates as part of the Greens are in breach of the Electoral Act, the Australian Electoral Commission says. So what are the rules?

The Guardian - AU

Government claims of 7% real wage rise since in office disputed – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU

‘Hello it’s John Howard calling’: former PM says Liberal party asked him to ‘campaign extensively’

The current prime minister is unpopular in city marginal seats, so the Coalition is banking on robocalls and letterbox drops from Howard to sway voters

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