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• Best of cartoons, April 25, 2025

  24-04-2025 13:24 via smh.com.au
  
  The news of the day as interpreted by our talented artists, illustrators and cartoonists.
  
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• Labor’s landslide victory in Australian election leaves Liberal leaderless

  03-05-2025 23:09 via abc.net.au
  
  Labor leader Minister Anthony Albanese has become the first Australian prime minister to be re-elected in 21 years.
  
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• Live: Peter Dutton's defeat plunges Liberals into leadership drama

  03-05-2025 22:58 via abc.net.au
  
  The Coalition is set for its worst result at a federal election after a crushing loss. Anthony Albanese last night claimed victory after swings across the country. 
  
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• Federal election results 2025 as it happened: PM delivers victory speech as Labor wins government; Dutton concedes, projected to lose his own seat

  03-05-2025 22:40 via smh.com.au
  
  Follow along as Australia decides who will lead the country for the next three years.
  
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• Federal election results 2025 LIVE updates: Albanese remains PM in Labor landslide; Dutton loses his seat to Ali France

  03-05-2025 22:32 via smh.com.au
  
  Follow our live coverage of the aftermath of Labor’s landslide victory at the federal election.
  
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• Has Antony Green called the election yet? Former PMs farewell a 'legend'

  03-05-2025 21:25 via abc.net.au
  
  Former Australian prime ministers across the political divide pay tribute to Antony Green, the ABC's chief elections analyst who presented his final election last night and will soon retire.
  
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• It took just over two hours to call time on Dutton's two decades in politics

  03-05-2025 21:04 via abc.net.au
  
  Opposition Leader Peter Dutton lost the seat he has held for 24 years on Saturday, as Labor swept to a landslide victory. 
  
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• This Sale Of The Century election will leave us all out of pocket

  03-05-2025 21:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Our politicians are like game-show hosts, flinging money at the electorate. But the bills will fall due.
  
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• Has the smartphone killed reading?

  03-05-2025 21:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Reading and writing take us to places an algorithm can’t reach.
  
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• Beyond Dutton's loss, this is a chance for a new type of politics in Australia

  03-05-2025 21:00 via abc.net.au
  
  The comprehensive nature of this win gives Anthony Albanese the chance to change the narrative of our politics. 
  
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• Zelenskyy says talk with Trump at Vatican the 'best' they've had

  03-05-2025 19:30 via abc.net.au
  
  The Ukrainian president praised the minerals and defence deals made this past week between the US and his country, while also issuing a stern warning to Russia.
  
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• Greens including leader Adam Bandt at risk of wipe-out

  03-05-2025 16:48 via abc.net.au
  
  The Greens face the prospect of losing all four of their lower house seats, including party leader Adam Bandt's, though there is a chance the minor party could pick up two seats elsewhere.
  
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• The key Sydney seats: What happened, and who are the winners?

  03-05-2025 16:15 via smh.com.au
  
  There are 11 seats in Sydney and NSW that are critical – or simply fascinating to observe – in this election. Here’s how Australians voted in each one.
  
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• Every seat that changed hands – and those that are still in doubt

  03-05-2025 16:14 via smh.com.au
  
  Here’s everything you need to know about the seats changing hands across the country.
  
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• This has exposed the true depth of the Liberals’ crisis – and all but exiled them from the cities

  03-05-2025 15:41 via smh.com.au
  
  The Liberal Party has been reduced to a right-wing populist party. Peter Dutton gave a gracious concession speech. But his Coalition did not suffer an honourable failure.
  
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• 'Dreadful, deluded and doomed': Dutton's night of the living dead overshadowed Albanese's win

  03-05-2025 15:32 via abc.net.au
  
  For the Coalition, Saturday night was like one of those gory horror movies where half the headline cast gets decapitated before the first act is over.
  
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• 'Dreadful, deluded and doomed': Dutton's night of the living dead

  03-05-2025 15:32 via abc.net.au
  
  For the Coalition, Saturday night was like one of those gory horror movies where half the headline cast gets decapitated before the first act is over.
  
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• Liberals’ losses could limit party to just five of Sydney’s 29 electorates

  03-05-2025 15:31 via smh.com.au
  
  The Coalition’s hopes of making gains in NSW appear dashed with the ALP and independent candidates only strengthening their grip on the state.
  
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• Liberal Party losses could see it reduced to just five of Sydney’s 29 electorates

  03-05-2025 15:31 via smh.com.au
  
  The Coalition’s hopes of making gains in NSW appear dashed with the ALP and independent candidates only strengthening their grip on the state.
  
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• Albanese takes centre stage, finds his footing and claims victory

  03-05-2025 15:20 via smh.com.au
  
  Albanese didn’t fall off the stage this time. In celebrating the start of his second term as Australian prime minister on Saturday night, he practically levitated.
  
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• Victoria’s teal incumbents Zoe Daniel, Monique Ryan on track to extend their margins

  03-05-2025 15:17 via smh.com.au
  
  Victorian teals are on track to entrench their presence, particularly in Melbourne.
  
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• Greens’ dream of more seats has turned into a nightmare

  03-05-2025 15:15 via smh.com.au
  
  The minor party faces the loss of lower house seats around the country.
  
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• Liberals left reeling as Victoria delivers knockout blow

  03-05-2025 15:14 via smh.com.au
  
  It is a cataclysmic result for a party that at the start of the campaign saw the state as its path back to power.
  
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• Landslide win for Albanese and Labor as Dutton loses seat

  03-05-2025 15:14 via abc.net.au
  
  Fighting back tears as he addresses supporters, Anthony Albanese flashes his often displayed Medicare card and vows to get back to work tomorrow.
  
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• ‘You have my heart’: Anthony Albanese’s heartfelt message to fiancee Jodie Haydon

  03-05-2025 15:12 via smh.com.au
  
  Anthony Albanese has used his victory speech to deliver a heartfelt message to Jodie Haydon. This will only add speculation over his impending nuptials.
  
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• ‘No such thing as a safe seat’: Teals expand reach in Liberal heartland

  03-05-2025 15:12 via smh.com.au
  
  After three years as the self-styled shadow MP for Bradfield, Nicolette Bole will join the other teals in Canberra.
  
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• Zoe Daniel claims victory in Goldstein

  03-05-2025 15:09 via smh.com.au
  
  The Elwood Bowls Club was reverberating with cheers as Zoe Daniel took to the stage to claim victory.
  
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• Labor heartland vibes: Pale ale flows freely, bundle of nerves evaporate

  03-05-2025 15:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Few of Labor’s True Believers gathered at Anthony Albanese’s election night event could believe the scale of Labor’s gargantuan electoral triumph.
  
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• Every seat that changed hands on election night – including Labor’s 14 gains

  03-05-2025 15:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Here’s everything you need to know about the seats changing hands across the country.
  
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• ‘We’ve made history’: Labor holds on to knife-edge seat of Bennelong

  03-05-2025 14:54 via smh.com.au
  
  Labor MP Jerome Laxale trounced his opponent Scott Yung on Sydney’s north shore, where a boundary redraw had tilted the seat in the Liberals’ favour.
  
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