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Cooking with gas: Peter Dutton and Anthony Albanese campaigning in Perth on Saturday.

Dutton offers $1200 tax cut against Albanese’s 100,000 homes in defining election pitch

Both leaders will use their campaign launches to unveil $10 billion policies, which also include a Labor plan to allow most first home buyers to enter the market with a 5 per cent deposit.

  • Matthew Knott and Paul Sakkal

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Chocolate prices are up by 33 per cent as the Easter season kicks off.

‘As high as you could charge’: Why Easter egg prices have surged 33 per cent this year

Retail prices have soared as international cocoa producers are rocked by bad weather.

  • Nick Newling and Jessica Yun

Trump is making life very difficult for an old enemy

Fed chair Jerome Powell has, not for the first time, found himself between a rock and a hard place. It didn’t have to be like this.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Demonstrators rally against US President Donald Trump and his recent policies in Trafalgar Square, London, England.

Trump’s trade war is bad, but how bad is up to the rest of us

What matters most is the indirect effect on Australia from Trump’s attempts to start a trade war with the other big economies.

  • Ross Gittins

Dutton wants to know if you’re better off now. It’s a trick question

The opposition leader’s question is so seductive to people who don’t follow politics and the economy, and don’t want to use their grey matter.

  • Ross Gittins
Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton.

Albanese lays down challenge for Dutton over wages

Labor will urge the workplace regulator to order a real increase in pay for 2.6 million workers after the RBA chose to keep interest rates on hold.

  • David Crowe and Millie Muroi
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RBA governor Michele Bullock said it was a consensus decision to keep rates on hold.

Job losses not RBA’s priority as bank keeps rates on hold

Asked about the impact of incoming US tariffs, RBA governor Michele Bullock said inflation remained the bank’s main focus as it held interest rates steady at 4.1 per cent.

  • Shane Wright and Millie Muroi
Fed chairman Jerome Powell has been reluctant to speculate about how Donald Trump’s policies might affect the central bank’s decisions.

The Trump fire is burning on Wall Street

The American people are losing confidence in Donald Trump, sending shockwaves through Wall Street. And that’s before “Liberation Day”.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Anthony Albanese and income gains during the first term of his government.

The real winners and losers from Albanese’s handouts

Cost-of-living pressures have dominated the Albanese government’s term. New analysis shows who it has tried to dull the pain for.

  • Shane Wright
Nationals leader David Littleproud during a doorstop interview in the press gallery at Parliament House in Canberra on Monday 24 March 2025.

Nationals leader promises lower power prices within years

The Coalition had avoided making the vow after Labor was burned by its 2022 promise to drop power prices by $275.

  • Olivia Ireland and Mike Foley

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