How Cook and Albanese navigate their four-decade friendship against the backdrop of expectations from their respective voters will be interesting to watch.
JOE SPAGNOLO
Anne Aly sees her trio of new portfolios - small business, multicultural affairs and international development - as being joined by a thread of aspiration and economic opportunity.
Katina Curtis
Factional quarrels were put on the back burner as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Governor-General Sam Mostyn swore in the new-look Labor Government.
Ellen Ransley
Anne Aly has emerged as a big winner from the post-election reshuffle, taking on three portfolios and joining Madeleine King to double Western Australia’s representation in Cabinet.
Labor’s Ed Husic has mounted a scathing attack on the Deputy Prime Minister, describing him as a “factional assassin” who prioritised factional wars over showing leadership.
We take you inside the opaque and complex decision-making structure of the Labor Party, which is divided along state and factional allegiances between left and right.
Nicola Smith, Katina Curtis and Ellen Ransley
In a strongly worded statement, Paul Keating condemned the dumping of Ed Husic to elevate an MP from Richard Marles’ Victorian Right — a faction he said was ‘demonstrably devoid of creativity and capacity’.
Caitlyn Rintoul
Labor MPs are arriving in Canberra ready for factional stoushes amid arguments about who is owed what ministry positions after the landslide win rebalanced each state’s contribution to the caucus.
Katina Curtis and Nicola Smith
After a thumping election victory, Anthony Albanese now has to contemplate how to best use his strengthened authority within Parliament, his caucus and the public.
In a result few predicted, Labor has gained the seat of Moore, ending decades of Liberal dominance in the northern Perth electorate.
Liam Murphy
Labor is actively backing Independent MP for Curtin Kate Chaney, blasting its own candidate for daring to criticise the high-profile teal.
Ben Harvey
Pollsters, strategists and party sources alike say there are very few guarantees in this election, but these are the key battlegrounds to watch.
Labor has defended the roll out of its GPS tracking technology on domestic violence thugs, as the issue dominated Parliamentary question time on Tuesday.
Dylan Caporn
All governments indulge in a bit of off-budget spending but the Albanese Government has taken it to new heights.
Editorial
Premier Roger Cook said domestic violence offenders should be “put behind bars” in regional areas where electronic monitoring devices cannot be used
Sofia Fimognari and Dylan Caporn
The beloved Scitech Discovery Centre will continue to inspire new generations of West Australian scientists with a $100 million funding injection Labor is promising.
Anthony Albanese has refused to back in Tanya Plibersek as the environment minister if re-elected, despite locking in four other senior ministers.
In an election more about personality than policy, Labor’s campaign launch had to reframe the meaning of leadership. But it was haunted by a leader not even in Australia.
The Prime Minister spoke around the ever-looming presence of Donald Trump, seeking to link the US president to Opposition Leader Peter Dutton.
Katina Curtis and Dylan Caporn
Speaking at the National Press Club in Canberra on Wednesday, Mr Holmes a Court said as the vote count continued it would be ‘one to watch’.
A bevy of senior advisers to Roger Cook have called time on their years in Dumas House, as the Premier uses the post-election honeymoon to shake up ministerial staffing ranks.
The Premier’s right-hand man entered his election party to a cheering crowd as he faced the likely prospect of becoming the new Labor MP for Landsdale.
Claire Sadler
Kimberley MP Divina D’Anna could be on the brink of making WA political history by becoming WA’s first female Indigenous MP to become a minister.
Joe Spagnolo
WA Labor’s candidate for Albany and the seat’s incumbent answers our questions in her own words — find out what matters most to the people vying for Albany’s seat in the lower house with this nine-part series.
Rebecca Stephens, WA Labor
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