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Pauline Hanson enters the One Nation election party at the Bended Elbow in Albury on Saturday night.

One Nation says it’s coming for more seats. These are the ones that could fall next

Thousands of voters on the Victorian side of the border share the same grievances that drove their NSW counterparts to abandon the Coalition. But it doesn’t end there.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos, Mike Foley and Shane Wright

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New Nationals leader Matt Canavan.

Matt Canavan warns on Middle East wars, draws battle lines with One Nation

The outspoken right-winger was elected leader in a major pivot for the ailing regional party as it seeks to take on Barnaby Joyce and Pauline Hanson’s One Nation.

  • Paul Sakkal and Mike Foley
Reunited: Liberal leader Sussan Ley and Nationals leader David Littleproud face the media on Wednesday.

Ley stared down Littleproud’s threat to walk. He did, and the Coalition’s in ruins

The opposition leader accepted the resignation of three frontbenchers on Wednesday afternoon for breaking cabinet solidarity. By Wednesday night, all the Nationals frontbenchers decided to walk.

  • Rob Harris
Member for New England Barnaby Joyce

‘This is the ejector seat’: Joyce lashes out as he resigns from Nationals, clears way for One Nation move

Barnaby Joyce has formally resigned from the Nationals, ending his 20-year parliamentary career with the party and clearing the way for him to join One Nation.

  • Paul Sakkal
Nationals MPs Matt Canavan, Barnaby Joyce and Michael McCormack.

Former rival pleads with Joyce to stay as old ally Canavan readies attacks on defector

Matt Canavan says the party must fill the void left by Barnaby Joyce, even as Michael McCormack made a last-ditch plea to his former leadership rival to not join One Nation.

  • Paul Sakkal and James Massola
Jackie Elliott and her baby boy on her family’s farm in western Victoria.

Bullying, harassment, intimidation: Shocking backlash for farming families who welcome renewables

Across Australia, the drive to ramp up renewables is dividing communities.

  • Nick O'Malley and Michael McGowan
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Barnaby Joyce has publicly undermined Nationals leader David Littleproud.

Hanson targets Canavan, Price in hopes Joyce will lead defection to One Nation

Pauline Hanson is targeting several high-profile Coalition MPs to join Barnaby Joyce in what she hopes will be a significant defection to One Nation over net zero and migration.

  • Paul Sakkal
Collector Wind Farm, NSW.

Political brawl erupts as renewables backlash sparks threats, bullying

Farm communities are being split over the expansion of wind and solar farms in regional Australia.

  • Mike Foley
One Nation leader Senator Pauline Hanson at the front of Parliament House in Canberra in late July.

Hanson tests Coalition resolve on net zero

Pauline Hanson wants to take advantage of Sussan Ley’s move to a more centrist style, describing herself as Australia’s answer to Nigel Farage, leader of the UK’s Reform.

  • Paul Sakkal
This break-up was a decade in the making, writes James Massola.

Sussan Ley was compared with the Liz Truss lettuce, but it’s David Littleproud who’s reduced to clear

Whether the federal opposition is a restumped Coalition, a reimagined Liberal Party or some new configuration, it won’t have much time to get its house in order.

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