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Geoff ChambersChief Political Correspondent

Geoff Chambers is The Australian’s Chief Political Correspondent. He was previously The Australian’s Canberra Bureau Chief and Queensland Bureau Chief. Before joining the national broadsheet he was News Editor at The Daily and Sunday Telegraphs and Head of News at the Gold Coast Bulletin. As a senior journalist and political reporter, he has covered budgets and elections across the nation and worked in the Queensland, NSW and Canberra press galleries. He has covered major international news stories for News Corp, including earthquakes, people smuggling, and hostage situations, and has written extensively on Islamic extremism, migration, Indo-Pacific and China relations, resources and trade.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - MARCH 6 2025: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and National Emergency Management Agency Deputy Coordinator-General, Joe Buffone hold a media briefing in the National Situation Room (NEMA) in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

How many storms must Albanese weather?

The PM’s hopes of calling an April 12 election are being eroded by the cyclone that was supposed to bear his name.

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‘we tried’Politics

(FILES) Elon Musk listens as US President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 11, 2025. Elon Musk's social media platform X has agreed to settle a lawsuit over what was then Twitter banning Donald Trump after the mob attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, a newspaper said on February 12, 2025. X has agreed to pay about $10 million to settle a lawsuit that Trump filed against Twitter and its former chief executive Jack Dorsey protesting his ban, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP)

Musk thumbs nose at eSafety chief in face of damning report

Elon Musk’s X is refusing to co-operate with the eSafety Commissioner on countering terror and violent extremism, prompting the online watchdog to claim the social media giant is engaging in ‘a lawfare pattern’.

Geoff Chambers and Sarah Ison

EXCLUSIVEPolitics

CANBERRA, Australia - NewsWire Photos - November 4, 2024: Department ofÃÂ Home Affairs, Associate Secretary, Dr Emma Cassar appears at the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee Senate Estimates at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Labor rocked by top Home Affairs official’s exit

Anthony Albanese’s top immigration official Emma Cassar, who ran Daniel Andrews’ quarantine system, has quietly departed the Home Affairs department weeks out from the election.

Geoff Chambers

EXCLUSIVEPolitics

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - December 24, 2024: Chinese Ambassador to Australia Xiao Qian at the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Canberra. Picture: Martin Ollman

China envoy issues AI warning as warships circle

China’s top diplomat has suggested the Albanese government’s ban on AI app DeepSeek is ‘overstretching’ the use of national security, politicising trade and undermining global technological progress.

Geoff Chambers

exclusivePolitics

Former Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe, and Anthony Albanese on Sunday.

Interest rates not to blame for cost-of-living pain: Lowe

In a rare interview, the former Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe says a lack of productivity growth is to blame for cost-of-living challenges.

Geoff Chambers and Amber Plum

EXCLUSIVEPolitics

Friday - Stores are loaded onto a Royal Australian Air Force C-17A Globemaster III bound for Vanuatu, RAAF Base Amberley, Queensland. *** Local Caption *** Defence supports the Whole of Australian Government's response to the Vanuatu government's request for assistance following an earthquake which struck Port Vila. Defence mobilised air assets at RAAF Bases Amberley and Fairbairn, including a C-17A Globemaster III and C-130J Hercules, to support the deployment of Australia's response teams. Picture - ADF

World Vision chief warns on aid cuts

World Vision Australia has warned that cutting foreign aid will have serious consequences for security, as the Coalition prepares shake-up of foreign aid and defence budgets ahead of the election.

Geoff Chambers

EXCLUSIVEPolitics

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA. NewsWire Photos. FEBRUARY 28, 2025. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese holds a press conference in Ashfield. Picture: NewsWire / Jeremy Piper

ALP doles out $10bn housing funds with benefits

Anthony Albanese has been accused of ‘pork barrelling on steroids’, with the government’s $10bn Housing Australia Future Fund pouring funds into Labor marginal, battleground and target seats across the country.

Geoff Chambers

EXCLUSIVEPolitics

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - MAY 15: Prime Minister of Australia, Anthony Albanese and Treasurer of Australia, the Hon Dr Jim Chalmers MP (R) arrive for post budget media interviews at Parliament House on May 15, 2024 in Canberra, Australia. Australia's Labor government is grappling with a slowing economy, weaker commodity prices, soaring housing costs and a softening labor market. It unveiled its federal budget on May 14. The budget is seen as a key opportunity for the Labor government to deliver broad economic support that analysts say is fundamental to re-election chances next year. (Photo by Tracey Nearmy/Getty Images)

Nervous Labor MPs send SOS to Chalmers as Albanese struggles

Jim Chalmers has launched a pre-election campaign blitz in vulnerable NSW Hunter and central coast seats, as he answers the calls of Labor MPs concerned that surging support for Peter Dutton and Anthony Albanese’s unpopularity will cost them their seats.

Geoff Chambers

Washington TalksWorld

(L-R) Jim Chalmers, Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent and Director of the National Economic Council of the United States Kevin Hasset in Washington. Picture: Michael Butcher

Albanese hurtles toward tariff carve-out deadline

The clock is ticking for the Prime Minister to secure a tariff deal with Donald Trump’s administration as both the March 12 deadline and federal election loom.

Joe Kelly, Sarah Ison and Geoff Chambers

COMMENTARYPolitics

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos FEBRUARY 25, 2025: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese during a visit to a Chatswood medical centre on Tuesday. Picture: NewsWire / Nikki Short

He thinks he can, but Albanese’s little engine is tanking

Anthony Albanese’s election train has left the station and Labor MPs believe there is no turning back, amid fears that waiting until May could deliver Peter Dutton the keys to The Lodge.

Geoff Chambers

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