The Australian Financial Review

2 days ago | afr.com | Phillip Coorey |Sumeyya Ilanbey

The founder of a network aimed at redressing the Liberal Party’s gender imbalance has accused Tony Abbott of failing to understand the challenge faced by women, as divisions grow over how to best increase the number of female MPs.A day after Liberal leader Sussan Ley warned the party’s demise would continue unless it bolstered its ranks of women, and advocated either quotas or some other mechanism to fix the problem, shadow minister Angus Taylor voiced his opposition to quotas. Loading...

2 days ago | afr.com | Sumeyya Ilanbey

Former Victorian opposition leader John Pesutto has repaid his colleague Moira Deeming’s legal fees after getting a bailout from the Liberal Party, but members who oppose the rescue package are dragging it to court. Vapold, an entity associated with the Liberal Party, paid Deeming $1.55 million on Thursday morning, and Pesutto provided $750,000 from fundraising efforts to clear his debt to the first-term MP, who successfully sued him for defamation. Loading...

2 days ago | afr.com | Andrea Palasciano |Flavia Krause-Jackson |Josh Wingrove

Andrea Palasciano, Flavia Krause-Jackson and Josh WingroveJun 26, 2025 – 8.34amGift this articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? LoginIt was a reception fit for a king. The pillows had been fluffed at the Dutch royal palace.

3 days ago | afr.com | Matthew Garrahan

Skip to navigationSkip to contentSkip to footerHelp using this website - Accessibility statementScott Galloway is an American in London, an entrepreneur turned marketing professor, turned activist investor, turned author and audio provocateur. His trenchant and often profane views on markets, business, technology and politics have made him a hit podcaster whose shows are downloaded millions of times a month.

3 days ago | afr.com | Sumeyya Ilanbey

It’s annual general meeting season for the Victorian Liberal Party’s ever-dwindling and ageing membership base. The few rusted-ons left are battling it out for the spoils of internal victory, having seemingly all but abandoned the fight to win next year’s state election. And when we say dwindling, what we really mean is it’s in freefall. Loading...