Peter Dutton will hang onto the leadership because there are no alternatives

Peter Dutton will hang onto the leadership because there are no alternatives

Dutton was supposed to appeal in places like Wantirna,Rowville and Bayswater. If they aren’t his voters,then who is?

  • byAnthony Galloway

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Counting begins in Aston after eerily quiet election day

Counting begins in Aston after eerily quiet election day

Polling booths have closed and counting has begun for the Aston byelection after a grey and quiet day in the outer-eastern Melbourne electorate on Saturday.

  • byAnnika Smethurst andMelissa Cunningham
The battle in Aston is just getting voters to bother turning up

The battle in Aston is just getting voters to bother turning up

Both major parties are predicting a tight result in Saturday’s Aston byelection,with the winner set to make history in the outer eastern electorate.

  • byAnnika Smethurst
Aston byelection:Questions over Labor candidate’s pre-election papers

Aston byelection:Questions over Labor candidate’s pre-election papers

Labor’s Mary Doyle may have filled out her qualification checklists incorrectly for the May 2022 election and Saturday’s byelection.

  • byBroede Carmody
Locked out of home ownership? Thank John Howard and the seat of Aston

Locked out of home ownership? Thank John Howard and the seat of Aston

Trailing Kim Beazley in the polls and under fire over the GST,John Howard needed a byelection win in Victoria. He got it - but there was a price to be paid.

  • byTony Wright
A Rowville train line was proposed 54 years ago. Aston residents are still waiting

A Rowville train line was proposed 54 years ago. Aston residents are still waiting

Katrina Marques,who is raising three school-aged children,says the lack of public transport is the most important issue to her before Saturday’s byelection. But she isn’t expecting much after years of empty promises.

  • byLachlan Abbott
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Dutton submerged like a Virginia class sub as periscope turns to Aston

Dutton submerged like a Virginia class sub as periscope turns to Aston

Not only has he been unable or unwilling to begin the job of redefining himself since becoming leader,Peter Dutton has disappeared for days on end.

  • byNiki Savva
Labor targets Campbell’s childcare ‘hypocrisy’ ahead of Aston byelection

Labor targets Campbell’s childcare ‘hypocrisy’ ahead of Aston byelection

The Liberal Party’s candidate for the Aston byelection,Roshena Campbell,has previously criticised Labor’s expanded childcare policies despite claims she had childcare costs subsidised by Melbourne ratepayers.

  • byBroede Carmody
Dutton warns his federal MPs to remain united,in direct swipe at Victorian Liberals

Dutton warns his federal MPs to remain united,in direct swipe at Victorian Liberals

Federal Liberal leader Peter Dutton has lamented the potentially damaging effect the controversy surrounding state upper house MP Moira Deeming could have on this weekend’s Aston byelection.

  • bySumeyya Ilanbey andAnnika Smethurst
Labor’s victory in NSW shows risk for Liberals in Aston byelection
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Labor’s victory in NSW shows risk for Liberals in Aston byelection

Chris Minns offered the people of NSW what they had seen from Canberra since the last federal election in May.

  • byDavid Crowe
Cost of living,housing crisis front of mind for Aston’s early voters

Cost of living,housing crisis front of mind for Aston’s early voters

Many voters in the outer Melbourne seat of Aston were frustrated to be back at the polling booths so soon after the recent state and federal elections.

  • byMelissa Cunningham