The long election campaign and its aftermath are nearly over, but don’t expect the political dramas and shenanigans to end once the final vote is counted.

Leigh Sales grills Bill Shorten to end a political week that is getting scarier than The Conjuring 2.

Paula Matthewson on why the fate of the federal election is in your hands.

Kerri Sackville wonders why the media are so obsessed with Bill Shorten's chest.

There is an inescapable conclusion from the brutal final instalment of the three-part ABC documentary series The Killing Season, Karen Middleton writes.

Opposition leader Bill Shorten has spoken out about police investigations that cleared him of an allegation that he raped a 16-year-old girl during the 1980s. Mr Shorten decided to put the matter into the public domain in the hope that he could put it behind him, saying “there is absolutely no basis to the claims.” […]