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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese holds the first Labor Caucus meeting of the 48th Parliament.

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Scene is set but will Parliament be blockbuster or bomb?

The 48th season of Australia’s Parliament is about to air its debut episode with the same sets, same lead character, new actors in key roles, new drama and hopefully some new plotlines.

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The Liberal Party's Sussan Ley and Michaelia Cash with Curtin candidate Tom White in Scarborough today.

Federal PoliticsCommentsWA Liberals reluctant on idea of gender quotas

The WA Liberal Party is resisting implementing quotas for recruiting more women, as insiders insist the approach it took over the past three years worked at recent elections.

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Liberal MPs will meet on Friday to set up structures to develop policies in other areas, with Ms Ley saying it was imperative they act like the alternative government they were.

Federal PoliticsCommentsLiberals enter their Ley era as leader eyes adding women

Opposition Leader Sussan Ley has set herself apart from Peter Dutton’s leadership and vowed to be a ‘zealot’ about recruiting more women into Liberal Party ranks.

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Leader of the Opposition Sussan Ley.

Federal PoliticsComments‘Smashed’ Liberals look to aspiration and modern Australia

Opposition Leader Sussan Ley will concede the Liberals got ‘smashed’ at the May election and lay out the areas she want her party to focus on over the next three years as it rebuilds.

Katina Curtis

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been labelled ‘vindictive’ for forcing the Opposition to cut 20 staff members.

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‘Vindictive’: Albo slammed for forced Opposition staff cuts

The Opposition has labelled Anthony Albanese ‘vindictive’ after the Prime Minister delivered a further blow to the already diminished Coalition by cutting the number of advisers for its shadow ministers.

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“I want to bring to Western Australians that sense, that they can trust me. That they can believe me, that I understand what their life is like,” Sussan Ley said.

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‘They can trust me’: winning WA seats ‘top priority’ for Ley

Sussan Ley has declared winning back WA seats ‘a top priority’ of her leadership as the Liberals begin their soul searching as to why the nation has turned its back on the once powerful party.

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