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In the upcoming election campaign, Peter Dutton will find fertile ground in immigration and security issues.

Playing hard or being ‘reckless’? Dutton ramps up attack

The opposition leader’s rhetoric has prompted opponents to accuse him of “grotesque”, trumped-up politics. But do the times suit him?

  • Paul Sakkal

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Premier Jacinta Allan is under pressure to accept federal funding for the airport rail link.

Extra $2b in federal funds on table to revive airport link amid horror poll

The collapse of public support for the Victorian government is reshaping state and federal politics before this year’s federal election.

  • Chip Le Grand and Paul Sakkal
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese during an address to the National Press Club.

Three sharp jabs and one blunt question: Albanese fights to win you back

Albanese, who once said he loves fighting Tories, used his appearance at the National Press Club on Friday to hit back.

  • David Crowe
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese makes an election pitch.

‘I’ll tell you what weakness is’: PM turns on Peter Dutton over guts and glory

The prime minister has shifted his attack on Peter Dutton from portraying the opposition leader as dangerous to describing him as gutless with no solutions.

  • David Crowe
The Captain Cook statue in St Kilda was vandalised in 2018, and in 2024 was severed from its plinth entirely.

Albanese’s greatest election threat isn’t Dutton. It’s the woke left

Aside from the odd snarl, the PM isn’t taking the Coalition’s bait. But just because he refuses to take the bait doesn’t mean his Labor colleagues won’t.

  • Gary Newman
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in Parramatta Square. Parramatta, NSW. January 22, 2025. Photo: Kate Geraghty

Anthony Albanese speech LIVE updates: PM addresses National Press Club as federal election looms

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will deliver a major speech to the National Press Club as the federal election looms. Follow for live updates.

  • Olivia Ireland
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WA Nationals have launched a new campaign against Labor.

WA Nationals accuse Labor of waging ‘war on the weekend’

The line is similar to former prime minister Scott Morrison’s scare campaign during the 2019 election, when he accused then-Labor leader Bill Shorten of wanting to “end the weekend”.

  • Hamish Hastie
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton and Education Minister Jason Clare.

Labor slams Peter Dutton for creating ‘fake fight’ over Australia Day

Education Minister Jason Clare accused the opposition leader of seeking to distract voters from “the mess of his crazy policies”.

  • Olivia Ireland
An artist’s impression of the proposed Parramatta North rezoning, with Parramatta’s fast-growing CBD in the background.

There’s a plan for 2500 new homes in Parramatta. Heritage advocates say it can wait

Heritage advocates want to wait four more years to finalise plans. Tasked with fixing the housing crisis, the state government says that doesn’t make sense.

  • Megan Gorrey
Premier Jacinta Allan

Labor’s disastrous poll result will be met by disbelief – followed by hard questions

A 22 per cent primary vote for state Labor is a number so bad that it barely computes.

  • Chip Le Grand

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