The Latest Breaking News from Clive Palmer

Minor party will not win a House of Representatives seat and its performance in the Senate is still unknown after spending millions on advertising

Minor parties were all the rage at the last election when, along with independent candidates, they secured almost a third of votes.

The coalition's seat count will hit a near-80-year low, one analysis shows, as the opposition backtracks on mooted changes to school lessons.

Unsolicited texts authorised by Harry Fong, a Senate candidate for Queensland and ‘highly respected barrister’ who befriended Clive Palmer in the 1970s

"Isn't this harassment? Stalking? I never signed up for these."

Another election, another wave of unsolicited political texts. Over this campaign, our digital mailboxes have been stuffed with a slew of political appeals and promises, many from the new party Trumpet of Patriots (backed by Clive Palmer, a veteran of the mass text campaign).

Behind unassuming names lurk parties with some hair-raising and eccentric views. And others that are pretty much what they say they are

Are you rounding the turn into the home straight, kicking with the wind in the final quarter or falling at the final hurdle? Test your attention span with a week to go before (final) polling day

Anthony Albanese says disruption of ceremonies in Melbourne and Perth was ‘act of low cowardice on a day when we honour courage and sacrifice’