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More Liberal woes in the heartland

The Liberal Party's predicament is worse than anything it has had to face before, and its resources for tackling it are meagre.

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Four European results

Yesterday was a big day for European elections. Results are in from Romania, Portugal, Poland and France.

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Poland & Portugal

It's not all bad news in Europe, with mainstream parties set to do well in Sunday's two other big elections.

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The far right & the “Libertarians”

Australia's far right parties failed to make the electoral breakthrough that many expected. The Libertarian Party also does not seem to have done itself any good by joining their company.

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Clearing an election backlog

A chance to catch up on some recent non-Australian elections, including Trinidad & Tobago, Singapore, Romania and Albania.

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Breakthrough in the Senate

Labor's landslide isn't just in the lower house: Australia's new Senate will be quite different to its predecessors.

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Whither the independents?

Wrapping up the week's election coverage with a look at the fate of the independents, whose triumph was the big story of 2022.

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Is this the Green ceiling?

It wasn't just the Coalition that had a bad election. The Greens lost ground as well, but with them there is more scope for debate about how bad it was and what went wrong.

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Life gets even worse for the Liberals

In a shocking night on Saturday for the Coalition, it was the Liberals who did worst. Their National Party colleagues performed fairly well, and that won't help the overall task of recovery.

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Back to the 1940s

Labor wins its first federal landslide of modern times, and breaks a rule that has stood for more than a century.

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