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A council officer removing a Liberal Party sign on Wednesday morning.

Victoria’s hot seats LIVE updates: Malcolm Fraser’s granddaughter backs independent Alex Dyson in Wannon; Liberals win court battle over pre-poll signage in Kooyong

Pre-poll antics in Kooyong have just ratcheted up another notch, with the Liberal Party receiving a decision on its proliferation of signs at a Kew pre-polling centre.

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Shadow treasurer Angus Taylor and Coalition finance spokeswoman Jane Hume.

Budget to get worse before it gets better, and with higher taxes, under Dutton plan

Federal budget deficits would widen over the next two years before improving sharply in the final years of the decade under the Coalition’s federal election costings.

  • Shane Wright, Natassia Chrysanthos and Olivia Ireland
Only two days remain until the election.

Federal election 2025 as it happened: Taylor, Hume release Coalition costings; More than a quarter of Australians have already voted

Follow live as we bring you all the news from the final days of the election campaign.

  • Josefine Ganko, Olivia Ireland and Angus Delaney
Joel Davis (right), of the neo-Nazi National Socialist Network, at a Kooyong pre-polling centre on Wednesday.

Threats, ‘skulduggery’ and neo-Nazis prompt AEC warning about voting booths

A barrage of complaints about threatening and aggressive behaviour at polling booths has fuelled tension in the final days of voting in the federal election.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos, Mostafa Rachwani and Sherryn Groch
Joe Moran, like most young Australian men, is not growing more politically conservative.

Gen Z men are meant to be conservative, so why aren’t the polls picking that up?

Polling says young and middle-aged men have not turned towards conservative politics in Australia as they did at the US election. So what’s going on?

  • Angus Delaney
‘Tiger King’ Joe Exotic endorses Anthony Albanese during the 2025 federal election campaign.

Why Albanese is leading Dutton in ‘podcaster election’ stakes

The PM landed the campaign’s weirdest endorsement after several unconventional social media appearances.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook
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Dutton has led one of the worst election campaigns in living memory

Peter Dutton must have believed he could skate to victory. How else to explain his abject failure to prepare credible policies.

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Benson Saulo is the Liberal Party candidate for Macnamara.

Star Liberal candidate ‘forgot’ he was once a member of the ALP

Benson Saulo was accused of party-hopping after his stint with the Greens came to light, and now it turns out he had a forgettable affinity with Labor.

  • Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
Josh Frydenberg and Peter Dutton are the most likely candidates to become opposition leader if the Coalition loses the federal election in May.

Dutton campaign not going as party wanted, but miracles can happen: Frydenberg

Frydenberg this week left the door open to a political comeback as MPs ponder life after Peter Dutton if the opposition leader failed badly on Saturday.

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Angus Taylor and Jane Hume will release the Coalition’s election costings which are expected to show a $40 billion reduction in gross government debt.

Dutton promises $40b debt cut as nuclear questions grow

The Coalition will promise a better budget bottom line over the next four years as it releases its election costings just two days out from polling day.

  • Shane Wright and Mike Foley

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