The Latest Breaking News from the Liberal Party

As leadership spill speculation grew, Battin was widely touted as the top candidate for the embattled opposition leader’s job

Shake-up comes as prime minister is mulling his future as Liberal Party leader after top minister’s resignation.

At some point, Australians stopped grieving Harold Holt’s death and many started to laugh about it instead. The sudden disappearance of a prime minister at a Victorian beach in December 1967 has furnished many wisecracks and memes. Former Cronulla Sharks coach Jack Gibson famously said that waiting for the team…

Exclusive: Hughes MP Jenny Ware told party colleagues at a meeting last night she was seeking legal advice in relation to an email sent by a Young Liberal branch in her own backyard.

Liberal frontbencher Paul Fletcher got a big shock last election in his Sydney seat of Bradfield. Teal candidate Nicolette Boele pushed the result to preferences, leaving her within striking distance for next year’s poll. She has been further helped by the redistribution.

Opposition Senate leader and former senior minister in the Coalition government Simon Birmingham has announced he will quit parliament. Birmingham, one of the few remaining moderates in the Liberals’ ranks, is shadow foreign minister. Now , aged 50, he’s defecting to a (yet to be announced) commercial job.

None of the efforts have so far been successful — but insiders say there are other reasons conservatives would keep pushing for the ex-PM to be kicked out of the party.

Under Peter Dutton, the Liberal Party has abandoned many of its core tenets. By supporting Labor’s online ID plan, it’s now ditched the last of its liberalism.

In the midst of a by-election the SA government has accused the opposition of squandering taxpayers' money but the Liberals say it was all approved by Treasury.