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The stakes are high, and the swing is on in safe seats held by Labor ministers.

Hostile and deeply divided: In south-west Sydney, it’s an election campaign like never before

Harnessing anger over Gaza, independents are posing an unprecedented threat to Labor in heartland seats.

  • Eryk Bagshaw and Kayla Olaya

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Campaign corflutes damaged in marginal electorate in the run up to this year’s federal election.

Torched, defaced, smeared: have Australia’s corflute wars gone too far?

Candidates in marginal electorates have reported a high number of incidents with campaign posters being torn down, or worse.

  • Daniel Lo Surdo, Penry Buckley and Cindy Yin

There’s an obvious successor for Albanese. The Libs face a tougher choice

Election results trigger, or subsequently lead to, leadership resets. Even in the turmoil of a campaign, players will also have their eyes on the future.

  • Michelle Grattan
GP and Muslim community leader Jamal Rifi in front of his medical centre in Belmore, Sydney.

In Sydney’s west, division over Gaza action drives election debate

An activist group’s attempt to ban politicians from attending Muslim events has drawn criticism from some community leaders, but others insist politicians haven’t got the message.

  • Perry Duffin, Anthony Segaert and Matt Wade
Flyers by Stand4Palestine instructing followers to confront and disrupt politicians in mosques.

‘Interrupt, disrupt, expose’: Plan to drive MPs from Sydney’s mosques

A campaign is under way to force government and opposition politicians away from the city’s Islamic community by heckling and filming them.

  • Perry Duffin
An unauthorised flyer claimed Tony Burke is a “racist immigration minister”.

Tony Burke forced to leave prayer event; unauthorised flyers label him ‘racist’

Activists are flooding the immigration minister’s western Sydney electorate with flyers and banners labelling him a “racist”.

  • Jessica McSweeney
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Opposition Leader Peter Dutton and Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke.

Furious Dutton says Burke is lying about caravan plot briefings

Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke accused the opposition leader of playing into criminals’ hands, but the Coalition said its leaders were briefed on January 30.

  • Olivia Ireland and James Massola
Protesters marched outside Columbia University on Monday demanding the release of Mahmoud Khalil.

‘First arrest of many’: Graduate faces deportation as Trump cracks down on student protests

The case marks a dramatic escalation of the US president’s efforts to curb what he calls “antisemitic and anti-American activity” on university campuses.

  • Michael Koziol
Sam Delich and Kylah Day in Territory. Netflix declined to commission a second series, despite its global success.

Could Trump’s tariffs spell disaster for Australia’s screen industry?

High-profile shows cancelled, no sign of streaming quotas and the spectre of Donald Trump have sent a chill through Australia’s film and television industry.

  • Karl Quinn
A citizenship ceremony in Olympic Park.

What it’s like at one of Sydney’s so-called ‘vote-buying’ citizenship ceremonies

Under the Sydney Showground’s corrugated iron roof, hundreds of soon-to-be Australian citizens wore their Saturday best. But with allegations of an industrial-scale vote stack, one couple believed there was too much focus on voting.

  • Max Maddison

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