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Opposition Leader Peter Dutton.

Despite forceful WFH agenda, Dutton makes pledge to women voters

The opposition leader has promised female voters there won’t be an American-style reversal of women’s rights if he becomes prime minister.

  • Sylvia Jeffreys

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Trump has done us a favour by showing where we stand during peacetime

Donald Trump’s decision on tariffs is another reminder that he has cast aside old friends and embraced traditional US enemies, Russia most conspicuously.

  • Peter Hartcher
Opposition frontbencher Jane Hume.

Coalition makes formal complaint over pro-teal spin in ‘fake newspaper’

Gazette News, which pays to boost stories about teal MPs, said its local news outlets were not linked to any political movement.

  • Paul Sakkal
Clive Palmer holding a press conference to launch his new political party in February.

Backlash over Clive Palmer’s Trumpet of Patriots gender advertisements

Transgender and equality advocacy groups are outraged over a series of political ads published in major newspapers.

  • Calum Jaspan
Peter Dutton and opposition home affairs spokesperson James Paterson address the media.

How Peter Dutton got it wrong on the caravan – and why voters need to know it

Dutton went harder than Anthony Albanese or Chris Minns on the caravan found filled with explosives on Sydney’s fringe, because he had a political objective.

  • David Crowe
US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

How Trump and Alfred will both wreak havoc on budget the PM did not want to have

Donald Trump’s tariff war has increased fears of a US recession. A recession, and the growing cost of a GST, are now hitting Jim Chalmers’ budget plans.

  • Shane Wright
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Getting the business model right is one of the biggest hurdles to developing a viable offshore wind sector in Australia.

The subterranean wind farm fight bursts into ugly parliament stoush

A feud has erupted between Canberra MPs as they clash over a controversial industry that could help swing the federal election.

  • Mike Foley
Shadow Defence Minister Andrew Hastie at the waterfront of Mandurah, in his electorate of Canning.

Liberals too focused on unsuccessful progressive inner-city seats: Hastie

Andrew Hastie said his party had been too focused on winning progressive inner-city seats while forgetting the opportunities that lay in the outer suburbs.

  • Hamish Hastie
Rumours about the random baseball-bat incident have been swirling for days at Melbourne’s court precinct. CBD can reveal the story is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

A random attack left a barrister’s arm broken. He still marched into court to defend a client

Rumours of the baseball-bat incident have been swirling for days. CBD managed to track down the lawyer in question.

  • Broede Carmody and Kishor Napier-Raman
Lindsay and Paula Fox.

Old family links put a Fox among the Liberals in Kooyong

Lindsay Fox says he was a friend to Rupert Hamer until the day the former Victorian premier died. He is now backing Amelia Hamer in Kooyong.

  • Chip Le Grand

Original URL: https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal-election-2022