#BREAKING 🚨 NSW independent MP Helen Dalton will NOT run in the Farrer by-election, saying her fight in the state parliament is "producing results"
The move avoids a by-election in her state seat of Murray and leaves Michelle Milthorpe as the sole independent running
Greens are running
05.03.2026 08:44 — 👍 16 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
#BREAKING 🚨 Farrer will head to the polls in two months, with the by-election to replace Sussan Ley officially scheduled for 9 May
The contest is set to be between the Liberals, Nationals, One Nation and independent Michelle Milthorpe, with Helen Dalton also considering running
NEW VIDEO: Melanie Selwood, the Greens' lead candidate for the South Australian Legislative Council, has told 6 News she's optimistic about the party's chances leading up to this month's state election
WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpRT...
#BREAKING 🚨 Legendary sports commentator Dennis Cometti has died aged 76
04.03.2026 02:30 — 👍 45 🔁 8 💬 5 📌 7
Greens senator David Shoebridge has hit out at the Albanese Government for "providing political cover" for the US-Israeli strikes on Iran, describing it as a war "based on lies and deceit"
WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zrwo...
#BREAKING 🚨 Iranian state media has confirmed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead following US–Israeli airstrikes
01.03.2026 01:35 — 👍 19 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 7
#BREAKING 🚨 US president Donald Trump says Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is dead following US–Israeli airstrikes
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres says he is not in a position to confirm if Khamenei has died
#BREAKING 🚨 Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has backed the strikes from the US and Israel against Iran
"We support the United States acting to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and to prevent Iran continuing to threaten international peace and security"
#BREAKING 🚨 Donald Trump has confirmed the United States is striking Iran alongside Israel
Trump says the US military is "undertaking a massive and ongoing operation" and are "going to destroy their missiles and raze their missile industry to the ground"
#BREAKING 🚨 Israel has launched strikes on Iran, with explosions reported in downtown Tehran
Israeli defence minister Israel Katz says a "special and permanent state of emergency" has been declared across Israel, according to the BBC
#BREAKING 🚨 The Green Party has won the Gorton and Denton parliamentary by-election in a significant blow to UK PM Keir Starmer
Labour finished third in a previously safe seat with their vote halving to to 25%, while Reform were second with 29%
#BREAKING 🚨 One Nation has announced three candidates – David Farley, Leigh Wolki and Guy Cooper – who will contest their preselection for the Farrer by-election
Helen Dalton, who was approached by ONP, is not running for preselection amid rumours of an independent candidacy
#BREAKING 🚨 Former opposition leader Sussan Ley has officially resigned from parliament, setting up a by-election in Farrer where she says a Liberal win is “vital”
The contest is set to be multi-cornered with the Nationals, One Nation and independents running
Anthony Albanese has become the first Commonwealth leader to confirm support for removing Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor from the line of royal succession
The PM told Keir Starmer that the allegations against Andrew are "grave" and "Australians take them seriously"
🚨 NEW: Anthony Albanese leads Angus Taylor by five points as preferred prime minister, in the first nationwide poll since the Liberal leadership spill
22.02.2026 05:39 — 👍 29 🔁 5 💬 15 📌 5
#BREAKING 🚨 The US Supreme Court has ruled 6-3 that Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs are illegal
The ruling has upheld a lower court's previous finding that the US president exceeded his authority by imposing tariffs under a law that was meant for national emergencies
NEW 6TH PREFERENCE EPISODE: Sussan Ley's resignation will set up a likely five-cornered contest in Farrer – is there any way the Liberals can hold on?
Watch the FULL episode on Patreon: patreon.com/6newsau
Watch highlights: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFFk...
#BREAKING 🚨 Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been arrested and is in custody on suspicion of misconduct in public office, according to the BBC and Sky News UK
19.02.2026 10:33 — 👍 91 🔁 16 💬 9 📌 10
NEW VIDEO: Suki Dorras-Walker has spoken to 6 News about her candidacy in Nightcliff, with the Greens campaigning to retain its Northern Territory Parliament seat
WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=csgq...
#BREAKING 🚨 Liam Alexander Hall can now be named as the man accused of throwing a homemade bomb into an Invasion Day rally crowd in Perth, after a suppression order preventing his identity being published was lifted
The attack is being treated as a terrorism event
#BREAKING 🚨 Tim Wilson will become shadow treasurer under Liberal leader Angus Taylor, while Jacinta Price and Andrew Hastie will return to the shadow ministry in the skills/training and industry/sovereign capability portfolios respectively
17.02.2026 05:36 — 👍 22 🔁 12 💬 32 📌 14
#BREAKING 🚨 Former Queensland Senate candidate Drew Pavlou claims he has been "deported" from the US, where he travelled after saying he would move into Billie Eilish's mansion
"I spent 30 hours trying to explain my shitposts were a joke...I guess I am just a BAD GUY"
#BREAKING 🚨 The Nationals have confirmed they will contest the Farrer by-election, pushing to reclaim the seat they lost to Sussan Ley in 2001
With Labor unlikely to run, the move sets up a multi-cornered contest with the Liberals, One Nation and independents
When they’re now polling at 26% in NSW and 35% in rural electorates nationwide it's entirely possible for them to win
13.02.2026 10:16 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
NEW VIDEO: Sussan Ley says she has "no hard feelings" towards the 34 Liberal MPs who voted to replace her with Angus Taylor in this morning's leadership spill, adding that she'll be cheering on the party as they fight "this awful Labor government"
WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hkfm...
#BREAKING 🚨 Independent candidate Michelle Milthorpe has confirmed she will recontest Farrer at the upcoming by-election, setting up a possible five-cornered contest following the resignation of Sussan Ley
Milthorpe received 43.7% of the two-candidate-preferred vote in 2025
Independent MP Helen Dalton, who represents Murray in the NSW parliament, says she's weighing up a switch to federal politics and may run in the Farrer by-election
The move would see a state by-election in Murray, which Dalton won with a 66% two-candidate-preferred vote in 2023
Momentum is building within the Nationals' membership for the party to contest the Farrer by-election against the Liberals, 6 News understands
Sussan Ley won the seat from the Nats in 2001, but they are now able to contest with no incumbent member in the running
