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Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton don’t see eye to eye on plenty of policy areas.

The key issues that will define the election – and where the major parties stand

Tax is a latecomer to the campaign agenda, Medicare has taken centre stage, and a nuclear energy fight will keep climate change in the conversation.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

Albanese planning to call election for May 3 on Friday

Calling the election on Friday morning would steal attention from news coverage of Dutton’s Thursday night budget reply speech.

  • James Massola and Paul Sakkal
Albanese and Chalmers shake hands.

Labor’s surprise ‘top-up’ tax cut is enough for a cup of coffee – and a brazen pitch for votes

The opposition has already rejected Labor’s surprise tax cut, but did not rule out an alternative plan.

  • David Crowe
Treasurer Dr Jim Chalmers and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Tuesday.

Everything you need to know about the new tax cuts

Two 1 per cent tax cuts will form the core of the Albanese government’s offer to voters as it chases a second term in office. Here’s how they will work.

  • Millie Muroi and James Massola
The lack of fanfare over the government’s successful stage 3 tax cuts says a lot about Australian’s money saving habits.

Stage 3 tax cuts are a smash success, so why aren’t we more thankful?

The lack of fanfare over the government’s successful stage 3 tax cuts says a lot about Australians’ saving habits.

  • Victoria Devine
Penny Nelson recently bought a Toyota Rav 4 hybrid vehicle.

They’re cleaner and greener, so why won’t the government give hybrids tax breaks?

Australians bought 172,696 traditional hybrids – which have a diesel or petrol engine as well as an electric motor – last year, up 76 per cent on 2023.

  • Mike Foley
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Trump faces 37 criminal counts relating to the alleged mishandling of classified documents and his attempts to obstruct the FBI’s investigation.

The $58 trillion shadow hanging over Trump’s return

Donald Trump’s inauguration and expectations of the tumult he will release on day one of his administration have deflected attention from the emergence of a familiar threat to US stability.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton backs away from tax cut changes.

Peter Dutton backs away from tax cuts for the rich

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton said Australians were just as focused on inflation as Americans who elected Donald Trump as he refused to commit to the reform.

  • Olivia Ireland
While all of us have benefited from the recent cuts to the tax rate, confused messaging from the government may have you wondering what to do with it.

Should you spend or save your stage 3 tax cash?

While all of us have benefited from the recent cuts to the tax rate, confused messaging from the government may have you wondering what to do with it.

  • Victoria Devine
A Westpac study of customers suggests people have saved rather than spend their tax cuts.

Tax cuts being put away for rainy day as inflation starts to fall

The stage 3 tax cuts prompted fears they could unleash spending and inflation pressures. But new research suggests Australians are sitting on their windfall.

  • Shane Wright

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