Peter pumped-up and powering on
On every count the Opposition Leader is better off talking about petrol prices in Parramatta rather than tariffs in Timbuktu.
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Peter Dutton faces a difficult task cutting through with a clear election message as he comes under maximum pressure from Anthony Albanese.
‘No exceptions’: Trump hawk’s last-minute tariff intervention
Until last weekend the tariff fate of America’s AUKUS partners – Australia and the UK – was still not decided. Enter chief White House trade counsellor and tariff hawk Peter Navarro.
Trade grenade manna from heaven for PM’s poll hopes
Anthony Albanese has swiftly sought to maximise the political impact of Donald Trump’s tariff announcement.
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After setting the agenda for 18 months and putting Anthony Albanese on the back foot, there are real danger signs that the election is slipping away from Peter Dutton.
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Chris Bowen has offered a swathe of western Sydney suburbs a $400 electricity price cut – raising the same questions about the promises upon which Labor’s renewable energy policy is based.
PM trying to have it both ways on broken energy promise
The PM has dumped his pledge to cut power prices by $275. Why, then, is Labor clinging to its core renewable plans using the same modelling?
Echoes of Howard as Dutton makes the case for a ‘sliding-doors’ moment
It is no coincidence that Peter Dutton – the last surviving Howard government minister – has adopted the same strategy on petrol excise that John Howard used in 2001.
Where the 2025 election campaign will be won and lost | WATCH
Anthony Albanese needs more than a Rabbitohs win to become the first PM since John Howard to be re-elected in more than two decades.
Time for one last salvo of cheers, jeers, insults and cliches
It wasn’t until the very last words of Anthony Albanese at the very end of parliamentary question time that it became absolutely clear that Thursday’s sitting was the last of the first term of the Labor government.
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