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The 47th parliament of Australia will have more female MPs and senators than ever before after Saturday's federal election. Read that again.

Keith Pitt says the Nationals take no responsibility for the Coalition losing government and he believes the cashless debit card is not necessarily on the way out.

A teal independent is a chance of dethroning a party that has held a Mid North Coast seat for all but two years since 1901. The incumbent says his vote in the National Party stronghold has been "eaten up" at both ends of the political spectrum.

Party leader refuses to rule out split from Liberals, saying it’s a ‘decision for both parties’ but his ‘preference’ is for Coalition to continue

Hey big Spender.

Labor’s climate plan is designed to limit the political risk of a scare campaign – but there are already calls for it to go beyond its headline commitments

Election 2022: Labor in charge as Morrison era ends

Monday: Labor inches ahead in seats across the country as shell-shocked Liberals mull leadership change. Plus: how to make a cow out of a boiler suit and a washing line

Higher education did not figure prominently in the election campaign. The biggest issues facing the sector, in particular the arts, humanities and social sciences, could never be fully addressed in six weeks, but the Australasian Council of Deans of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (DASSH) urges the incoming Labor government…