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The WA election was supposed to be One Nation's demonstration of its unstoppable momentum.

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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has been warned he must embrace the political centre, rather than the far right, after voter anger at a preference deal between One Nation and the Liberal Party helped deliver a massive loss for the Liberals at the West Australian election.

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Public health advocates have welcomed Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's renewed vaccinations push.

Federal politicians are lining up to declare One Nation's run of success over in the wake of the party's underwhelming result.

Greens senator Janet Rice has called for urgent government investment in better cycling infrastructure after a cyclist was hit and killed by a truck in Melbourne's inner-west on Friday night, close to the Victorian politician's home.

One Nation is set for a disastrous result at the West Australian election, prompting Pauline Hanson to say it was a mistake for the party to enter into a preference deal with the Liberal Party.

Early results showed West Australian Labor picking up double-digit swings in many key seats in Saturday's state election, and seats such as Forrestfield in suburban Perth changing from the Liberal Party to Labor.

Federal Liberal MPs Tim Wilson and Andrew Hastie appear in a debate sponsored by the Bible Society of Australia and Coopers Brewery.

Asked to identify his hobbies during a TV interview earlier this month, West Australian Labor leader Mark McGowan drew a blank.

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"The proof was in the pudding – our launches, events and ads were a hundred times better than the Libs."

If you'd dropped into the Old Fitzroy Hotel in Woolloomooloo on Saturday afternoon, you may have stumbled upon an unexpected scene.

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So how did we get here?

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The official portrait of former speaker Peter Slipper will be revealed later this month after sitting in a Parliament House basement for over a year.

When Colin Barnett was elected, George W Bush was President, iPhones had just hit the market and Amy Winehouse was cleaning up at the Grammys.

Plans for a free trade agreement between Australia and the European Union have hit another big delay, which trade minister Steven Ciobo has blamed on the EU.

Electrical contractor Peter Georgiou will replace his brother-in-law Rod Culleton as a West Australian senator.

Coalition MPs want the ban extended to all unions, think tanks, lobby groups and "political actors".

Nasir* waited almost five years for the chance to state his case. Then he had just a single day to nail it.

The RSL's acting national president has admitted the embattled NSW leadership stalled its own investigation into the financial scandals engulfing the state branch of the league.

In his first post-retirement role, former High Court chief justice Robert French will tackle one of the legal system's most intractable problems.

Investors have roared back into the housing market, buying properties that would have otherwise gone to owner-occupiers, and embarrassing the government by taking out more than half of the new money meant for housing.

Federal treasurer Scott Morrison has brushed aside suggestions he is being shunted as the government's chief economic salesman heading into the May budget, following reports of disquiet in government ranks about his performance. 

"Only Australians should have the power to influence Australian politics and elections," said Liberal senator Linda Reynolds.

Federally, attention will focus on Finance Minister and WA powerbroker Mathias Cormann.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has led a series of tributes from federal government ministers after the death of controversial News Corp cartoonist Bill Leak on Friday.

Trumpism, Hansonism - voting has become regional, says Liberal MP Angus Taylor, and delivering to these voters means spreading the benefits of the big cities.

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The Coalition government is considering the creation of a new affordable housing finance corporation to kick-start tens of millions of dollars in investment in community housing, in one of several major initiatives being examined for the federal budget.

Pauline Hanson acknowledged there was no test for vaccine allergies, as she had claimed on the ABC.

Labor front bencher Kate Ellis is set to quit politics at the next election, after more than a decade in federal parliament.