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Female politicians will have an enormous influence on the new Labor ministry — a new record has been set for an Australian government.

The ALP enters this new relationship with the Australian people led by MPs who lived through the last implosion

Anthony Albanese wants more respect in our Parliament and is willing to set the tone, but is seriously looking at taking out some insurance.

The Australian Labor Party is edging towards 76 seats and possible majority government after the electorate abandoned the Coalition at the federal election.

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.

Both major parties ran small-target and lacklustre election campaigns, writes John Tierney.

Industrial relations issues were front and centre when federal Labor last won office from opposition in 2007. The backlash against John Howard’s “Work Choices” reforms cost both his government and his own seat. Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard’s detailed “Forward with Fairness” policy provided a blueprint for the Fair Work…

After standing by Anthony Albanese's side throughout his six-week campaign to become Australia's next prime minister, his partner, Jodie Haydon, has been plunged into the public spotlight. We look at how Albanese and Haydon met, along with her transition into the high-profile role.

Elections are a test – the ultimate test, really – of those who serve as parliamentarians and those who aspire to serve. Scott Morrison asserted quite absurdly early in the 2022 campaign that the election was not a popularity contest. Clearly, the opposite is true. An election involving every eligible…

It’s tempting to think the Coalition lost the election purely because of climate change, but there’s much more to it than that.

PM Scott Morrison has been dumped by electorate fed up with inaction on emissions and eager for change