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Anthony Albanese was quick with his response to Peter Dutton’s spending accusation.

The four moments that mattered in the first debate

Undecided voters in the Sydney audience for the election leaders’ debate have handed victory to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton face off in the first leaders’ debate of the 2025 federal election.

Dutton claims credit for Labor’s two surpluses in robust debate

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton put in a solid performance in the robust debate, but the audience judged Anthony Albanese as the winner.

Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton face off in the first leaders’ debate of the 2025 federal election.

‘Are you the biggest spending government since Whitlam?’

Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton will face off in the first leaders’ debate of the 2025 federal election. Follow live updates.

Peter Dutton says he will create a gas reservation for the east coast of Australia.

Lib gas plan promises modest savings for households

Modelling underpinning Peter Dutton’s gas plan says household bills would fall 7 per cent, but a big cut in manufacturing costs would flow through the economy.

The news came just before Peter Dutton appeared alongside Anthony Albanese.

Peter Dutton’s father hospitalised ahead of first debate

News of the unknown medical emergency broke just ahead of the first leaders debate of the federal election campaign.

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Anthony Albanese is taking time out of the election campaign to host a business fundraiser.

Albanese plans time out for Sydney C-suite fundraiser

The “exclusive federal election networking event” hosted by Labor’s pay-for-access service called the Federal Labor Business Forum is scheduled for Thursday night.

Liberal members Paul Paynter and John Moores are part of a class action against the NSW Liberal Party.

NSW Liberals sued over council nomination debacle

A class action alleges NSW Liberals have been negligent and in breach of contract for failing to nominate more than 140 candidates for local elections.

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton and Treasurer Jim Chalmers.

Chalmers and Dutton clash over recession claims

Jim Chalmers has accused Peter Dutton of being prepared to trash the economy in a bid to salvage his campaign.

The Fin Election 2025 Lisa Murray and Phillip Coorey

The Trump slump and Dutton’s ‘ham-fisted’ backflip

This week, Phillip Coorey, Lidija Ivanovski and Paul Karp on how Trump’s tariff plan has upended the campaign and why betting markets are finally catching up.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has branded Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s promise to allow small businesses to deduct staff lunches a “complete farce”.

Recession talk is premature

The major parties are jostling to be perceived as the best placed to manage the international economic turmoil. Australia needs cool heads to prevail.

A Japanese LNG tanker at a JERA thermal power station in greater Tokyo.

Japan warns on Dutton’s gas reservation policy

A Tokyo think tank says limiting sales into the regional spot market could “handicap” Australian producers and trim Japanese trading in South-East Asia.

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ASX rebounds 1.2pc; China ‘tsunami coming’; How low can markets go?

Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton and Victorian opposition finance and public service spokeswoman Jane Hume.

How the Liberals picked a fight with another type of woman

Scott Morrison’s government lost inner-city professional women to the teals. Now, Peter Dutton’s opposition is risking those in the outer suburbs.

This Month

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton arrived to a media opportunity in a fuel tanker.

Dutton seizes on tariff chaos to recalibrate campaign

Donald Trump’s tariff chaos is causing both sides to recalibrate their campaign message.

Sydney University would have to shed 20,000 if a cap of 25 per cent international students was introduced.

Unis would lose 80,000 students, $3b under Dutton plan: analysis

Australia’s biggest and most research intensive universities would bear the brunt of Peter Dutton’s cuts to overseas students, according to analysis by Victoria University’s Mitchell Institute.

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Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Richard Marles.

Marles won’t say if US pressure led to Port of Darwin U-turn

Defence Minister Richard Marles declined on four occasions to say what had occurred since late 2023 to change the policy on the port’s Chinese ownership.

Donald Trump leaves Air Force One on his way back to the White House to confront a panic week on Wall Street

Tariff maelstrom bears down on Dutton’s election hopes

Labor is as alarmed as any government as Donald Trump’s sharemarket carnage unfolds. But it also sees a political advantage.

Victorian Opposition Leader Brad Battin says Monday’s joint press conference held by state premier Jacinta Allan and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will be the last of the campaign.

‘You won’t see them again’: Vic opposition on PM-Allan presser

Victorian Opposition Leader Brad Battin claims Anthony Albanese and Jacinta Allan won’t appear again for the rest of the election campaign. How the day unfolded.

Peter Dutton fills up cars during the election campaign to spruik the Coalition’s fuel tax cut promise.

Meet the bowser boy-in-chief: Dutton flicks switch to showtime

Peter Dutton showed up in a big rig to spruik a promised fuel tax cut. But it was tradies’ utes on his mind when asked about his problem with women voters.

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton with  treasury spokesman Angus Taylor (left) and finance spokeswoman Jane Hume at Parliament House.

Dutton’s woman problem was serious long before his WFH policy

The failure to anticipate the backlash is one thing, but it was made even worse by the fact Dutton was already on the nose with women.

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