The Latest Breaking News from the Liberal Party

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has signed off on a TikTok ban on federal government devices, and a growing number of Liberal MPs want a conscience vote on the Voice to Parliament. (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are warned that this column mentions a deceased person.)

Saturday’s by-election loss is the second time in less than a year the voters have got it wrong, according to Peter Dutton.

A growing number of journalists and eminent Australians are fearlessly pushing back against the Murdoch Australian empire.

Amid rumours Scott Morrison will soon be quitting politics, speculation is now rife that close ally Stuart Robert could follow.

Although Labor has returned to power in NSW, it will be in a minority government, with probably 45 seats, two short of a majority, to the Coalition’s 36 (assuming the Liberal Party wins the seat of Ryde, where it is currently ahead as counting continues).

After losing the Liberal-stronghold seat, Peter Dutton says he must hold the party together. That’s a recipe for continued irrelevance.

The Liberal Party isn’t going to split. But its secular-moderate core must now devote themselves to bloody internal struggle for years on end.

As Ukraine emerges from a brutal winter, its armed forces prepare for an apparent major counteroffensive as Russia suffers battlefield losses in Donbas, and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton licks his wounds after the crushing loss to Labor in Saturday’s Aston byelection in Victoria.

Political experts say the Liberal Party's resounding defeat at the Aston by-election is a result of factional infighting and internal issues that's led to a "monumental shift" as voters abandon the Coalition in droves.

Peter Dutton has vowed to rebuild the Liberal Party as an electoral force after a stunning defeat in the Aston by-election – but the party’s next test

The Victorian premier has criticised the Liberal Party and Peter Dutton for the "nasty" rhetoric used in the lead-up to the Aston by-election.