• Gluing the bench back together

    Michelle Grattan     |      May 25, 2025

    The fall-out from the Liberals-Nationals split and potential reconciliation continues as David Littleproud and Sussan Ley jockey for supremacy and policy control.

  • The end of the affair

    Linda Botterill     |      May 21, 2025

    The Nationals have pulled out of their long-standing coalition agreement with the Liberals in a potentially historic schism on the right-side of Australian politics.

  • Ley, Lady Ley

    Blair Williams     |      May 20, 2025

    The Liberal’s election of a moderate woman as leader signals a shift back toward the centre-right as well as increasing their appeal to female swing voters.

  • A long road back for the Liberals

    Frank Bongiorno     |      May 15, 2025

    Political parties can recover after a devastating election loss but the Liberals will need to think differently to take power again.

  • The Liberals turn to Ley

    Michelle Grattan     |      May 14, 2025

    Sussan Ley added an “s” to her name as a joke when she was young, and has now added the leadership of the Liberal party to her list of accomplishments.

  • The strange death of Liberal Australia

    Frank Bongiorno     |      October 11, 2022

    The Liberals’ weakness in Canberra is self-evident and, especially at the state level, part of a long-term change in the country’s electoral politics.