Malcolm Turnbull has snubbed conservative MPs pushing for promotion, stripped two female cabinet ministers of portfolio responsibilities and rewarded key supporters and the National Party in a larger than expected reshuffle.
Eight votes were all that separated the two main candidates in the north Queensland seat of Herbert after counting finished on Monday, with Labor's Cathy O'Toole taking the upper hand.
If the results of the July 2 poll were replicated in a system similar to the UK or Canada's, Australia's parliament would look very different.
Former Pauline Hanson adviser John Pasquarelli says the government should designate Barnaby Joyce to negotiate with Pauline Hanson and her One Nation Party.
With female Coalition representation at its lowest level since 1993, we asked women if they actually want to be politicians.
After acting like a sook on election night, Malcolm Turnbull reemerged this week as someone more like a statesman or an Indigenous elder.
And so, after a tremulous, difficult birth, the Turnbull government begins anew, for the first time under its own electoral steam.
What if budgets, and candidates for office, told the truth?
The plain fact is that the mainstream politicians have forfeited our trust and lost our respect.
The case for keeping the terms of the Coalition agreement between the Liberals and Nationals secret has evaporated.
What the Liberals was wrong and it backfired. Voters don't like seeing serious issues being used as a club for personal attacks.
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