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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaking to workers at the Whyalla steelworks in South Australia on Thursday.

Why Albanese and Dutton are tripling down on a struggling steel mill

Canberra’s pledge to shield blue-collar workers from a wipeout of the Whyalla steelworks has immediate political upside, but is it throwing good money after bad?

  • Mike Foley

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Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-chief executive Alex Ryvchin

‘Not a good day’: Should Anthony Albanese call a Passover election?

There are mixed views in the Jewish community about an April 12 election, with some leaders perturbed by the prospect and others distinctly unbothered. 

  • Matthew Knott
Anthony Albanese, voting with partner Jodie Haydon, at the 2022 federal election. Much has changed since he cast his vote.

The voters Albanese and Dutton must woo in 2025

Since the last election, more than 710,000 people have been added to an electoral roll that is older, more concentrated in certain seats and has more women.

  • Shane Wright
Some mishaps on the election trail: Kevin Rudd busts in on a choir; Tony Abbott inexplicably eats an onion; Scott Morrison’s rugby tackle trouble; and, Paul Keating’s cake plan falls flat.

‘You ignorant bastards!’ Perils of the election campaign trail

Very rarely, everything goes smoothly on the election campaign trail. Often, things go very, very wrong.

  • Tony Wright
Clive Palmer at a press conference at Parliament House on Wednesday.

Palmer targets Dutton in $90 million MAGA-style election pitch

Palmer said the Coalition lacked the aggression of right-wing parties around the globe, as he launched his new party, the Trumpet of Patriots.

  • Paul Sakkal
The Whyalla steelworks is part of the GFG Alliance.

Labor’s $500m plan to rescue Whyalla from wipeout

The Albanese government will invest multi-millions to help keep the plant afloat after it was seized from the control of British billionaire Sanjeev Gupta.

  • Mike Foley and James Massola
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Treasurer Jim Chalmers.

The Chalmers offensive: Media blitz after rate cut hints at more cost-of-living relief

The government is keeping the possibility of further cost of living measures on the table as the latest data showed wages growing at the slowest rate in nearly three years.

  • Shane Wright and Millie Muroi
Clive Palmer stands before the insignia for his new party on Wednesday.

Clive Palmer, patriot parrot in search of a refuge, blows his trumpet

Clive Palmer, having misplaced his old party’s name, urgently needed a new one for his latest adventure in politics. And so, Trumpet of Patriots is born.

  • Tony Wright
Carly Moore

‘Ripped off’: Popular ex-mayor quits ALP to challenge for one of its safest seats

Hume city councillor Carly Moore will run as an independent in Calwell, an electorate that includes the nation’s mortgage stress capital.

  • Adam Carey
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese after the laying of wreaths at the Parliamentary Last Post Ceremony at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra on Monday 3 February 2025. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

When does bipartisanship happen? When mutual self-interest is served

If you want proof that our politicians put their own careers way ahead of their duty to the people who vote for them, this is it. I’ve never felt more disillusioned.

  • Ross Gittins

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