Today
13 days to go: Albanese’s running on adrenaline
Anthony Albanese’s Easter Sunday brought together the three faiths in life: the Catholic Church, South Sydney and the Labor Party.
This Month
Who won the third week of the election campaign?
With week three done and dusted, we asked two former political staffers to offer their verdict on which leader has edged ahead on the election trail.
‘Headless movements fall’: Can Holmes à Court maintain the rage?
Climate 200 founder Simon Holmes à Court changed Australian politics. But has his success become a drag on the community independent movement he champions?
Chalmers says he asked for advice, not modelling on negative gearing
Jim Chalmers has cleared up a misstep by Anthony Albanese, who denied during Wednesday’s debate that the government had requested modelling on negative gearing.
‘A bouncy castle of idiocy’: The top political TikToks reviewed
We asked two advertising veterans to review the major parties’ highest performing TikToks. Here’s their verdict.
Australia’s housing crisis is about NIMBYs not negative gearing
Housing has been getting less affordable for a generation or so because of increasingly burdensome restrictions on what sort of dwellings can be built where people want to live.
Legacy and an apology: Leaders sharpen pitches for final campaign run
Anthony Albanese has reaffirmed he wants universal childcare as his legacy. Dutton nominated cheap energy but hedged on climate change science.
Labor takes half-time lead as Dutton support drops
Labor has attracted a small swing in the past fortnight, putting it in the box seat to form minority government, according to a new Freshwater Strategy poll.
Major parties risk being outflanked online by Easter campaign truce
Labor and the Coalition will pause advertising on television, radio and online on Good Friday and Easter Sunday, but the Greens and teals won’t.
Muslim Vote plan against Labor has flopped
In the two Sydney seats where Muslim Votes-backed independents are running against ministers the candidates will direct preferences to Labor ahead of the Liberals.
Wayne Swan whitewashes out the Qantas Chairman’s Lounge
What’s worse: Labor fighting for workers rights from the VIP lounge or Swan’s photo editing skills when he tried to hide it?
Albanese and Dutton dodge economic reality
Trump has warned his tariffs may cause temporary pain. Albanese and Dutton are not even trying to level with Australian voters about the cost of their spending.
The secret millions bolstering Labor and Liberal election campaigns
For Labor and the Coalition, the secret to millions of dollars in cashflow each election is more prosaic than big money donors or paid access schemes for lobbyists.
‘We’ve been here before’: Labor hierarchy warns against hubris
For the past few days, Anthony Albanese has gone out of his way to play down expectations. For good reason, says his brains trust.
Investor groups urge Labor not to extend tax on unrealised gains
A coalition of self-funded retirees, small businesses and farmers is demanding it rule out extending its taxation of unrealised gains to other investments.
What a 50¢ ferry ride reveals about which way Brisbane could fall
Three seats won in Brisbane’s leafy inner-city in 2022 may be the high-water mark for the Greens. But if the Liberals think they can walk back in, these voters have different ideas.
Housing tax break ‘would blow Coalition’s budget’
Economists say the Coalition’s tax deductions for mortgage interest could cost the federal budget billions of dollars more than the $1.25 billion it has claimed.
Angus Taylor vows Coalition costings will beat Labor’s
The Coalition will go to the May 3 election promising voters a substantially stronger budget bottom line.
House prices to rise up to 15pc under either side’s policies
Economists widely criticised the lack of policies to boost housing supply by both parties, even as they laid out plans to increase demand.
Labor picks city to host climate summit, making it an election issue
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says the COP31 summit will provide an economic boost to Adelaide that would be denied under a Coalition government.