The Latest Breaking News from Labor

Outgoing MP, who lost seat to a teal independent, says party needs to accept ALP has a mandate if it wants to regain inner-city seats at next election

Australians could have clarity on the final election result today, ABC News chief elections analyst Antony Green says.

By far the best thing Jim Chalmers could do for his party and the country would be to find a way to escape the 23.9 per cent limit on tax to GDP.

In 1953, the Communist East German regime quashed a widespread uprising and afterwards admonished the protesters, saying the government had lost confidence in the people. In a famous satirical poem, left-wing author Bertolt Brecht said that, if so, perhaps the government could dissolve the people and elect a new lot.

Labor has secured 75 seats but needs one more to form government in its own right and a political analyst says if it does not, the Greens will have "all the power in the world".

Case to test the limits of outsourcing in sector amid concern about food standards in some facilities

David Littleproud and Darren Chester make the case for a refresh in wake of Coalition rout

The first female Indigenous affairs minister is hitting the ground running, with a voice to parliament top of a long list of priorities

Premier Peter Malinauskas says the move will provide "targeted relief to those who need it most".