Just minutes after deposed Liberal leader Sussan Ley announced her resignation, constituents in her electorate of Farrer began murmuring about change. 

The new Liberal leader has signalled he will pursue a stricter immigration policy and a return to "Australian values" in his first pitch to win back voters.

At a time when so much of the global conversation is about the rapid decline of democracy, it is striking what a huge impact elections are having on world events just now.

The issue for the Liberal Party is not simply the toppling of a female leader. It's also about what happened to that leader while she was in the job.

As Angus Taylor takes the Liberal leadership via a spill motion, a former leader with plenty of experience offers up some advice on dealing with One Nation and immigration.

A man who allegedly killed Tim Picton in a one-punch attack outside a Perth nightclub claims the Labor identity had repeatedly approached his female cousin before being escorted out of the venue because he was intoxicated, a Perth court hears.

By its new leader Angus Taylor's own admission, the Liberal Party is running out of time to pull out of the nosedive that has it heading towards oblivion.

Within two hours of being elected Liberal leader, Angus Taylor has already been delivered his first big electoral test, and it has come from the woman he deposed.

Sussan Ley vowed to be a different opposition leader, one who consulted widely and listened to her broad church. But it left many wondering what, if anything, she stood for. 

Sussan Ley, the first female leader of the Liberal Party, is set to quit politics after losing a leadership vote today.

Sussan Ley announces she will quit the parliament after losing her leadership to Angus Taylor, setting up a by-election in her seat. 

The economics professor is the second academic economist added to the board since a review recommended boosting its expertise.

The Liberal Party is poised to dump its first federal female leader, with Sussan Ley's supporters acknowledging her rival, Angus Taylor, is in the "ascendancy". 

An immigration crackdown in the Midwestern state has been marred by protests and public anger after the shooting of two US citizens by federal agents.

The Liberals have spent the week embroiled in leadership woes as the party braces for a spill on Friday morning.

Support is firming for Angus Taylor to topple Opposition Leader Sussan Ley, though her supporters still expect her to achieve a "good result".

South Australia's Treasurer says the Liberal Party has secretly dumped its major $495 million policy less than six weeks out from the state election, with the Opposition arguing it has to wind back Labor's tax due to state budget blowouts.

Parliament House has entered the spill zone, where politics is at its most primal. Here are the Liberals jostling for control of their much-reduced party.

By expanding police powers and allowing bans on authorised public assemblies the Minns government has made restricting protest a defining feature of its first term.

Most Australians want greater social cohesion here, even if they don't see much of it right now.