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UPDATE: On Monday night, the ABC called Macnamara as a Labor hold, giving Labor 76 of the 151 House of Representatives seats, enough for a majority. In the two remaining undecided seats, Labor has taken a narrow lead in Gilmore, while the Coalition is likely to hold Deakin.

Germany has agreed to change its constitution to allow for a credit-based special defense fund of 100 billion euros ($107.35 billion) proposed after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the German finance ministry announced on Sunday.

The incoming Greens MP in the federal seat of Brisbane will be quadrupling his salary and has been to Parliament House in Canberra only once.

More than a week on from last weekend's federal election, Labor is still one seat short of a majority with three seats still in doubt.

Katy Gallagher says the new government is going to work "line by line" through the federal budget to find opportunities to relieve some of the challenges facing the economy - as it happened.

Anti-logging protesters reject state governments’ claims new laws are necessary to protect workers’ safety

Voters disenchanted with the cynical politics of the main parties were ripe for conversion – they just needed someone to knock on their door and listen

What happened in the election? A landslide election victory for Labor? A strong mandate from the Australian people for Labor policies? Hardly so.

The Greens have claimed their fourth federal lower house seat, taking Brisbane in Queensland from the Liberals after a tense week of vote counting.