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Liberals weigh up options for party leader

The Liberal Party is taking stock in the wake of an election defeat but is turning its focus to a replacement for Scott Morrison as leader.

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Labor in gain

Good morning, early birds. The Liberals are set to lose all seats in Adelaide and Perth and all but one seat in Melbourne as the count continues from Saturday’s federal election, and the Murugappan family are reportedly set to return home to Biloela following Labor’s victory. It’s the news you…

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NSW Liberals announce review into election loss, Treasurer says moderate voters were abandoned

NSW Liberal Treasurer Matt Kean says the Scott Morrison government paid the ultimate price for abandoning moderate voters and the party needs to "get its act together" and stop shifting to the right.

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Australian voters have elected their government. Now the Labor Party has to make them believe they were right

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…

The Conversation

Morrison's 'great electoral bungle' leaves the Liberals decimated and heading in the wrong direction

It is pretty human to crave the approval of peers and to hope for more of the same, even if unconsciously.

The Conversation

As Albanese heads to the Quad, what are the security challenges facing Australia's new government?

Extreme weather events are the new normal. The use of nuclear weapons by Vladimir Putin’s Russian military is now an unthinkable possibility. And Xi Jinping’s China, our largest trading partner and rising superpower, is pulling down the shutters.

The Conversation

Alan Kohler: This was Julia Gillard’s election victory

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

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Australian voters are drifting to the left on key issues as Anthony Albanese claims election victory

Can the Liberal Party rediscover its sense of purpose without being distracted by the issues and personalities that Australians now seem to have rejected at the ballot box?

Newcastle Herald

Anthony Albanese and four senior frontbenchers sworn in ahead of Quad trip

Moments after he is officially sworn in as the 31st Prime Minister of Australia, the Labor leader appears alongside his new ministers and makes a symbolic change inside parliament.

ABC News

Labor to make Australia proud: Albanese

Australia's 31st prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has promised to make the nation proud of his government, as he and a small team of ministers were sworn in.

AAP

In shock and anger over Liberal defeat, Sky News commentators urge party to shift right

Sky After Dark regulars say the Liberal party must distinguish itself by appealing to ‘conservative values that Labor have abandoned’

The Guardian - AU

Stoking fear and hatred held the Coalition in power – finally Australia had enough

For the first time in a decade the logjam to change the country’s politics may be shifting

The Guardian - AU

Albanese heads to Tokyo for Quad meeting

Australia’s new prime minister will immediately leave the country upon being sworn in, heading to a summit in Tokyo with leaders of the US, Japan and India.

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NZ's foreign policy turnaround: New Australian Govt will peg back tensions

The war in Ukraine has moved New Zealand into closer alignment with its Western partners - but the election of a new Govt in Australia shows the needs for an independent NZ path in the Pacific.

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Dennis Atkins: Morrison lost an election he should not have lost. And he still doesn’t get why

Scott Morrison has taken responsibility for his party's election loss. But his concession speech shows us how he still doesn't get it.

The New Daily

Moderate Liberals contemplate future after federal election wipeout

A long night of the soul or possibly worse looms for Liberal moderates after the party's vote in capital cities disappeared suddenly at Saturday's election.

The Guardian - UK

World leaders respond to Anthony Albanese’s Australian election victory

Pacific leaders welcome Labor’s plan for action on climate while one French minister says defeat of Scott Morrison ‘suits me very well’

The Conversation

Swing when you're winning: how Labor won big in Western Australia

Western Australia’s promise to be the kingmaker on federal election night has finally been delivered.

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Queensland bucks the national trend (again) and this spells trouble for both the Liberals and ALP

There’s an ancient observance in Chinese history that an earthquake is an ominous omen of coming political change. When the ground shakes it’s said the heavens are withdrawing an emperor’s mandate and encouraging people to rise up against a dying dynasty.

The Guardian - UK

Australia’s rightwing government weaponised climate change – now it has faced its reckoning

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

Radio France Internationale

'It suits me well': France's Le Drian welcomes Australian PM's election loss

As he handed over the baton of France’s foreign affairs portfolio, outgoing minister Jean-Yves Le Drian celebrated Saturday’s election defeat of Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison – saying the result "suits me very well".

AFP

PM-elect Albanese vows to repair Australia's image overseas

Sydney (AFP) - Incoming prime minister Anthony Albanese vowed to end Australia's reputation as a climate laggard and reset relations with the rest of the world Sunday, as he raced to form a government in time for a key Tokyo summit.

France 24

From humble origins to the PM's office, Anthony Albanese symbolises multicultural Australia

Australia's Prime Minister-elect Anthony Albanese is a politician molded by his humble start to life as the only child of a single mother who raised him on a pension in gritty inner-Sydney suburbia.

Newcastle Herald

Hope on the horizon as Hunter voters react to result

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The Independent UK

Australia election: PM-elect Anthony Albanese vows to end ‘climate wars’

New leader also promises to adopt more ambitious emission targets, though he refuses to completely phase out coal use

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