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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has morning tea during a visit to a home in Downer

Federal Election 2025 LIVE updates: Albanese dodges energy price questions in first major interview of campaign; Dutton slams supermarket taskforce as ‘wet lettuce’ fix for price gouging

Read all the headlines from day three of the 2025 federal election campaign as both leaders will tighten security after gatecrashers disrupted their events yesterday.

  • Olivia Ireland

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Australian Labor Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says Labor’s gas plan will do far more to reduce costs than the Coalition’s.

Albanese calls Dutton a copycat but won’t say who he gets his ideas from

The accusation came as the prime minister and the opposition leader duelled over plans to bring down the price of gas and lower household power bills.

  • David Crowe
Have voters been better off under Anthony Albanese and Jim Chalmers?

Has three years of Albanese left you better off? One number says no

Peter Dutton asks voters if they are better off under Anthony Albanese. From the cost of bananas to the value of your home, the answer is not easy.

  • Shane Wright
Woolworths, Coles, Aldi and Metcash (IGA) are under pressure to lower grocery prices by the government.

There’s no proof big supermarkets are price gouging, but Labor will ban it anyway

Labor would target supermarkets price gouging customers but has stopped short of Peter Dutton’s populist plan to give regulators power to break up big chains.

  • Millie Muroi and James Massola
A fringe anti-immigrant figure, Laurence McKenzie (in cap), heckles treasurer Jim Chalmers and prime minister Anthony Albanese.

Fringe anti-immigrant figure disrupts Albanese as climate activists repeatedly target Dutton

A climate protester almost fell down a flight of stairs after she was shepherded away from interrupting Peter Dutton’s press conference on Saturday.

  • Matthew Knott, Paul Sakkal and James Massola
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

Federal election 2025 LIVE updates: Leaders hit the campaign trail after PM announces May 3 election date

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton and Greens leader Adam Bandt have hit the campaign trail, with all three of them starting the day in Brisbane.

  • Craig Butt
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Sean Marsh of Climate 200.

Climate 200 staffer calls for boycott of Israeli businesses

The call is particularly controversial among Jewish Australians, many of whom live in electorates represented by teal MPs with Climate 200 backing.

  • Paul Sakkal
Australia’s 47th parliament recapped.

Albanese started his prime ministership on a high. Then in one month, things started to unravel

A record-breaking election and one month that changed it all: we recap the highs and lows of the 47th parliament.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
An anti-nuclear protester interrupts Peter Dutton's appearance at the XXXX brewery in Brisbane on Saturday morning.
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Protester halts first event of Peter Dutton's election campaign

An anti-nuclear protester interrupts Peter Dutton's appearance at the XXXX brewery in Brisbane on Saturday morning.

A man standing behind TV cameras began speaking loudly just as Treasurer Jim Chalmers started to speak alongside the prime minister.
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Albanese, Chalmers press conference interrupted by heckler

A man standing behind TV cameras began speaking loudly just as Treasurer Jim Chalmers started to speak alongside the prime minister.

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