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Both major parties ran small-target and lacklustre election campaigns, writes John Tierney.

Industrial relations issues were front and centre when federal Labor last won office from opposition in 2007. The backlash against John Howard’s “Work Choices” reforms cost both his government and his own seat. Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard’s detailed “Forward with Fairness” policy provided a blueprint for the Fair Work…

After standing by Anthony Albanese's side throughout his six-week campaign to become Australia's next prime minister, his partner, Jodie Haydon, has been plunged into the public spotlight. We look at how Albanese and Haydon met, along with her transition into the high-profile role.

Elections are a test – the ultimate test, really – of those who serve as parliamentarians and those who aspire to serve. Scott Morrison asserted quite absurdly early in the 2022 campaign that the election was not a popularity contest. Clearly, the opposite is true. An election involving every eligible…

It’s tempting to think the Coalition lost the election purely because of climate change, but there’s much more to it than that.

PM Scott Morrison has been dumped by electorate fed up with inaction on emissions and eager for change

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is a politician moulded by his humble start to life as the only child of a single mother who raised him on a pension in gritty inner-Sydney suburbia.

Labor is increasingly confident of winning the marginal Liberal-held seat of Boothby in Adelaide's south and has now shifted its attention to Sturt in Adelaide's east, a political expert says.

Voters are pouring in to polling booths across the country, as Australia decides whether Scott Morrison and his Coalition or Anthony Albanese's Labor will govern the nation for the next few years.

Coalition sources were predicting on election eve that the government would likely fall short of the 76 seats needed for a majority.

Friday: The best of Guardian Australia’s 2022 federal election coverage