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Victoria’s hot seats LIVE updates: The electorates that will gauge the nation’s mood on big issues during the 2025 federal election
Join us over the next five weeks for an in-depth look at the candidates, hot-button issues, and a breakdown of the policies and campaign promises in four key electorates.
- Clay Lucas, Cara Waters, Rachael Dexter and Charlotte Grieve
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As it happened: PM pledges health funding in Perth after edging ahead in poll; Dutton visits NSW and flood-hit Queensland
Stay across all the headlines from day four of the 2025 federal election campaign as Labor seeks to gain momentum from a boost in the polls.
- Angus Thomson, Olivia Ireland and Lachlan Abbott
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- Anthony Albanese
‘I’m just more confident’: How the PM has been practising to get a job he already has
Anthony Albanese has learnt a thing or two since his 2022 election campaign that began so disastrously and says he’s more confident and battle-hardened this time around.
- Paul Sakkal
WATCH: Liberal frontbencher heckled out of Melbourne mosque
The backlash came a day after Peter Dutton visited a Sydney mosque, as the Coalition courts voters in ethnically and religiously diverse communities.
- Natassia Chrysanthos
Roger Cook wants Albanese’s help with NRL stadium
Cook said he hadn’t had a “direct conversation” with the Albanese government about funding a new stadium, but pointed out the hundreds of millions of dollars the federal government had injected into other sporting projects around the country.
- Hamish Hastie
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
‘We love the harbour’: Dutton says he would live in Sydney as prime minister
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese accused the opposition leader of hubris and “measuring the curtains” before the election.
- Natassia Chrysanthos and Olivia Ireland
- Editorial
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Phantom issues and hiding details is no way to campaign
The two hip-pocket policies that opened the election campaign are not much to write home about.
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- Peter Dutton
From yum cha to a mosque: Dutton sells himself as a multicultural champion
In his first weekend on the campaign trail Peter Dutton visited a mosque before a church, synagogue or a Hindu temple, inviting voters to take another look at him.
- Matthew Knott
Migration tipped to plummet as post-COVID visas set to expire
A key election issue is high immigration levels, but new research says these will plunge. That’s in addition to falling fertility and shorter lifespans.
- Shane Wright
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