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Australian election
2025

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News

  • Angus Taylor

    Liberal party executive agrees to permanently bury review into catastrophic 2025 election defeat

    Party says ‘what’s important now is that we strengthen our party for the future’ but some MPs concerned they will not learn from loss
  • The exterior of Parliament House seen from across a lake

    Political parties receive more than $138m in ‘dark money’ before new donation rules begin

  • Gina Rinehart clapping

    Gina Rinehart’s company donated almost $900k to rightwing group Advance, political donations data shows

  • Former opposition leader Peter Dutton on the 2025 Australian federal election campaign trail

    Peter Dutton’s unpopularity ‘broke several records’ and Labor more trusted on economy, ANU study finds

  • Alex Dyson in Victoria smiling to camera

    Former Triple J host got $2.2m in donations for third unsuccessful tilt against Liberal

In depth

  • Sussan Ley

    ‘A very divisive period’: the challenges facing a Liberal party in existential crisis

  • Political party scrutineers watch on as Australian Electoral Commission representatives recount ballots for Bradfield in Asquith

    Inside the Bradfield recount: painstaking and polite, but sometimes heartbreaking

  • Australia’s youngest senator, Labor’s Charlotte Walker, celebrated her 21st birthday on election night

    Australia’s youngest-ever senator Charlotte Walker has a lot to learn but says she is ‘not naive’

  • A composite collage of Liberal leader Sussan Ley and Nationals leader David Littleproud

    Liberals and Nationals call it quits: what does the ‘monumental’ Coalition split mean for day-to-day politics?

Opinion

  • Nicolette Boele and Gisele Kapterian

    double quotation markDecoding a voter’s poor handwriting is subjective – let’s enlist AI to help with the Bradfield recount

    Simon Jackman
    Voters deserve to know the fight between Gisele Kapterian and Nicolette Boele is being resolved with the fairness integral to Australian elections
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    How are the Liberals of Bradfield coping with their loss?

  • Independent Candidate for Bradfield Nicolette Boele (centre) is seen at the Killara High School polling booth on Federal Election Day, in the seat of Bradfield, in Sydney, Saturday, May 3, 2025. Australians head to the polls to elect the federal government. (AAP Image/Bianca De Marchi) NO ARCHIVING

    double quotation markIn Bradfield, the election is not yet over. What happens when a seat count is ultra close?

    Graeme Orr for the Conversation
  • Tom McIlroy

    double quotation markThe Coalition gives a masterclass on the dangers of overreach – and both sides of politics are warned

    Tom McIlroy
  • Ballot boxes at the Bondi Surf Bathers Life Saving Club polling booth in the seat of Wentworth, in Sydney, 3 May 2025.

    double quotation markAttacks on Australia’s preferential voting system are ludicrous. We can be proud of it

    Kevin Bonham
  • Tom McIlroy

    double quotation markSussan Ley needs bold thinking to modernise the Liberals. She should look to David Cameron’s Tories

    Tom McIlroy
  • Sussan Ley

    double quotation markThe Liberal party’s appointment of Sussan Ley is a historic moment – but not the one that matters

    Julia Banks

Anywhere but Canberra

  • Top row (left to right): Amelia Makin, Ann-Marie Thomas, Chantelle Campbell and Federico Canas Velasco. Middle row (left to right): Holli Brunckhorst, John Sparrow, Ed Bryant and Todd Boorer. Bottom row (left to right): Brent Daylight, Lilly Wright, Ali El Kheir and Irfan Syed.

    Anywhere but Canberra: meet some of the voters who will decide Australia’s 2025 federal election

  • Anywhere but Canberra composite. Amelia Makin lives in Sunbury , which is in the electorate of Hawke, Victoria, Australia. For Cait Kelly story.

    The Sunbury student: ‘No one my age actually watches live TV’

  • Composite of Ann-Marie Thomas with Anywhere but Canberra branding

    The Toomelah nurse: ‘I always try to be optimistic, but jeez, it’s bloody hard’

  • Composite of Irfan Syed wearing white clothes and a hat

    The Melbourne IT worker: ‘We are grateful that the NDIS is supporting us’

Data and interactive guides

  • 2025 poll tracker composite image showing Anthony Albanese, Peter Dutton and Parliament House in Australia.

    Labor v the Coalition: political opinion poll tracker

    See how the federal election is shaping up with Guardian Australia’s statistical model, which combines all opinion polls to get a better estimate of the two-party preferred vote

Podcasts

  • Newsroom edition: three leadership contests and the future of Australian politics – Full Story podcast

    Podcast26:27
  • Richard Di Natale’s advice for the next Greens leader – Full Story podcast

    Podcast23:17
  • Newsroom edition: are we over-interpreting the election results? – Full Story podcast

    Podcast27:03
  • The ‘bloodletting’ and crisis inside the Liberal party – Full Story podcast

    Podcast21:39

Video and pictures

  • Chinese Australians vote in some of the most marginal electorates in Australia — and for two elections in a row, appear to be turning away from the Liberal party

    Has the Liberal party lost Chinese Australian voters for good? – video

    Video3:50
  • It's over. We've made it to the end of the 2025 election campaign, as James Colley wraps up the five weeks that felt like years

    Psychic croc's election fail, Albanese heads straight for ice-cream, and ‘the other guy’ – video

    Video5:39
  • The 51-year-old disability advocate is the first person to unseat an opposition leader at an election

    Who is Ali France? The Labor candidate who defeated Peter Dutton to win Dickson – video

    Video2:17
  • US president compliments Australian prime minister after landslide victory, before distancing himself from Liberal leader Peter Dutton

    Trump says he is 'very friendly' with Albanese but has 'no idea' who ran against him – video

    Video0:43

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