Labor MP Michael Danby has declared victory in Melbourne Ports after what he described as "the most ugly campaign", but will not comment on any links between his office and four men arrested for alleged vandalism on the morning of the election.
One Nation's lead West Australian Senate candidate has failed in his bid to have a trial over a stealing charge adjourned.
Police suspect a close friend of Bill Shorten and other Labor powerbrokers of vandalising polling stations in the battleground seat of Melbourne Ports on the morning of the federal election.
Labor has slumped to third in the seat of Melbourne completing a stunning nine year crash in the ALP's fortunes in a seat that was once was a proud party stronghold.
Former NSW minister Linda Burney has gone straight into Bill Shorten's shadow ministry - she's the first indigenous woman to be elected to the House of Representatives. Courtesy ABC News 24.
This is what Duncan Lewis, the head of ASIO, told Fairfax Media late last year about Islamist extremism's connection to the broader faith: "This is not about the religion other than the fact that it is being hijacked by ne'er-do-wells."
Election 2016 was like a soccer match where the overwhelming favourites found themselves stuck at one-all at half-time, still tied after 90 minutes but then squeaked out of jail with a couple of quick goals in extra time.
The Liberals may well be an election-winning machine, but it is a machine with a remarkable inability to elect women.
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?
