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Jacinta Price pledges to ‘make Australia great again’ in WA
The firebrand Coalition senator echoed Donald Trump’s signature pledge during a campaign where Labor has been trying to link the opposition to the US president.
- by Natassia Chrysanthos
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Federal election 2025 LIVE updates: PM campaigns in Perth; Dutton pledges $1.5m to stop coward punch
Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton are into week three of the federal election campaign. Follow live.
- by Millie Muroi
The latest illustrations from artist Alan Moir
The Sydney Morning Herald’s political cartoonist, sketches the political unreality.
‘We don’t need more vanilla’: Liberals are asking whether Peter Dutton can still win
The opposition leader has endured a torrid first two weeks of the 2025 campaign. What are his chances of victory?
- by James Massola, Natassia Chrysanthos and Paul Sakkal
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The politics of grievance was a winner for Trump. It’s not working for Dutton
Excited by dominance in meaningless midterm polls, misled by the false analogy of Trump’s political success, the Coalition allowed itself to think it could win without doing the work required.
- by Peter Hartcher
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He’s careful, stable – even prosaic. But Albanese may just have nailed the mood
The prime minister is on a personal mission to do what no Labor leader has done this century – convince voters his party can be trusted to govern long-term.
- by Chip Le Grand
Victoria’s hot seats LIVE updates: Air guitar-playing Greens promise tax breaks for live-music venues
What better place to launch a live-music policy than a pub beer garden?
- by Cara Waters, Rachael Dexter, Tom Cowie, Charlotte Grieve, Brittany Busch and Tony Wright
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Labor vowed to take on miners over Indigenous heritage. Now Albanese is their guest
The prime minister’s tour of northern Australia came with no moves to rekindle memories of the Indigenous Voice referendum.
- by Mike Foley
Federal election 2025 as it happened: Albanese reveals authorities launched legal proceedings to protect him after a “serious incident; Dutton reportedly targeted in teenage boy’s terror plot
Keep up to date on all the news from the campaign trail with our live blog.
- by Josefine Ganko and Alex Crowe
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Albanese reveals legal proceedings over ‘serious incident’
The prime minister said he contacted Peter Dutton to discuss an alleged terror plot targeting the opposition leader that was revealed on Thursday.
- by Matthew Knott
The Coalition's shifting stance on public service cuts
Senior Coalition politicians have offered different plans for the public service over the last year
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