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Tony Abbott recruited to help stop Sydney Harbour Bridge cycleway

Tony Abbott recruited to help stop Sydney Harbour Bridge cycleway

The former prime minister has been approached by some very vocal locals furious about a new bike ramp in Milsons Point.

  • by Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook

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Private schools are meant to help you get ahead. Not in Starmer’s cabinet

Private schools are meant to help you get ahead. Not in Starmer’s cabinet

Two-thirds of Rishi Sunak’s cabinet were privately educated, but only one MP in Labour’s new cabinet paid to go to school. It’s a rapid turnaround.

  • by Rob Harris
How Anthony Albanese helped Keir Starmer win his way to Downing Street

How Anthony Albanese helped Keir Starmer win his way to Downing Street

Political gurus worldwide often look to the US to live out a West Wing-style fantasy, but UK watchers say it is Australia that really sets the tone in Westminster.

  • by Rob Harris
Celebrations will be short-lived for Starmer, he’s got to fix a broken Britain
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Celebrations will be short-lived for Starmer, he’s got to fix a broken Britain

Britain’s new prime minister faces perhaps the most monumental challenges of any incoming UK leader since Clement Attlee’s Labour Party won in a landslide in 1945.

  • by Rob Harris
Eight memorable moments from the UK election campaign

Eight memorable moments from the UK election campaign

From bungee jumping to Count Binface, in the weeks before Labour’s landslide win, the British election generated no shortage of remarkable scenes.

  • by Rob Harris
‘This is for Gaza’: What the UK election means for Anthony Albanese

‘This is for Gaza’: What the UK election means for Anthony Albanese

UK Labour lost five seats to pro-Palestinian independent candidates during the course of the night, all in areas with significant Muslim populations.

  • by Rob Harris
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UK election 2024 as it happened: Rishi Sunak concedes defeat to Keir Starmer; Labour to form majority government

UK election 2024 as it happened: Rishi Sunak concedes defeat to Keir Starmer; Labour to form majority government

The polls have closed in the UK and Keir Starmer’s Labour Party is poised to take power, sweeping away Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives after 14 years.

  • by Rob Harris, Jessica McSweeney, Nick Ralston and Angus Thomson
So long UK Conservatives, and thanks for all the memes
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So long UK Conservatives, and thanks for all the memes

The tumultuous Thatcher years were memorialised in song and literature, but this current generation of Tories are probably best forgotten.

  • by Rob Harris
‘A new chapter’: Labour forecast for record-breaking win as polls open in UK election

‘A new chapter’: Labour forecast for record-breaking win as polls open in UK election

Rupert Murdoch’s The Sun newspaper has endorsed the opposition Labour Party rather than Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives.

  • by Rob Harris
JK Rowling, David Tennant clash over gender issues in UK election

JK Rowling, David Tennant clash over gender issues in UK election

The stoush between the entertainers comes amid a now-familiar political debate on transgender policy, with the issue becoming a key battleground in the UK election.

  • by Rob Harris
Bregrets? They’ve got a few. Most Brits now think leaving EU was a mistake
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Analysis

Bregrets? They’ve got a few. Most Brits now think leaving EU was a mistake

As Britons head to the polls this week, a majority think that leaving the European Union has delivered few benefits.

  • by Rob Harris