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Tony Abbott backs One Nation preference deal and says Liberals can’t just be a ‘little less woke than Labor’

Labor government’”. The Liberals and Nationals are grappling with how to respond to the surging support for [One Nation](https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/one-nation), which threatens to replace them as Australia’s main conservative party. The Liberals

Albanese calls Taylor ‘Temu Abbott’ as bitter fight rages over budget tax changes

Labor’s “economic strategy has failed Australians”. Albanese, who has been escalating his direct attacks on Taylor, described the opposition leader as “Temu Abbott … trying to press buttons”. The former Liberal prime minister was elected

Pauline Hanson is becoming a problem for Labor – but her focus on battlers could be her kryptonite

Labor MPs and advisers are concerned the government has been flat-footed and lacking a clear, coherent strategy to combat an unconventional political opponent that appears impervious to scandal and traditional forms of accountability

Jacinta Allan says Pauline Hanson ‘chooses to barrack for bullies’ over ‘ditch the witch’ billboard

Strategy poll conducted for the Herald Sun, published on Tuesday, showed Victorian Labor’s primary vote has slumped to 23%, compared with the Coalition’s 27% and One Nation’s 25%. “One Nation is cannibalising

Andrew Hastie accuses Pauline Hanson of being ‘Maga first’ – as it happened

strategy over the next 18 months.”  Liberal National party senator James McGrath. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP Hello, I’ll now be taking you through the rest

Jim Chalmers says budget to address economic anxieties ‘driving’ Australians to One Nation

parties outside the mainstream.” [Sign up for the Breaking News Australia email](https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed&CMP=emailbutton) One Nation has recently been polling a close second, behind Labor, in published opinion polls, nabbing

Anthony Albanese visibly emotional after defending Labor’s capital gains tax and negative gearing changes

party of aspiration” – a direct rebuke of criticism, including from shadow treasurer Tim Wilson, that the budget was a [“war on the self-starters and small businesses”](https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/20/labor-denies-cgt-tax-reform-will-kill-startups-small-business-budget-changes-canva). “We will not allow Australia

Liberal U.S. mayors team up with European counterparts to fight authoritarianism

liberal politics. For instance, she said the Trump administration tried to cut a chunk of funding to Beaverton because it refused to dump its DEI policy. Karácsony said Orbán's government put similar pressure

Trump's revenge tour claims its biggest victim yet

party voters would be enough to save him. In the end, it was not. “For a man with such a formidable intellect, his political strategy was breathtakingly dense,” said Lionel Rainey, a Louisiana GOP strategist

POV: you’re Jim Chalmers using social media to sell the most ambitious budget of your life

parties now fighting to win over voters online as well as the real world, it’s commonplace to see politicians filming TikToks in parliament’s courtyards, arriving for public appearances wearing large Rode microphones

UK Tory MP who defected to Reform advises One Nation in Australian byelection campaign

strategy for the byelection after a stint in the [South Australian state election](https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/21/in-south-australia-one-nation-has-put-meat-on-the-bones-of-its-polling-surge-now-both-major-parties-need-to-respond). [Sign up for the Breaking News Australia email](https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed&CMP=emailbutton) A [One Nation](https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/one-nation) spokesperson confirmed