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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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#BREAKING UPLOAD# NCA 2025 FEDERAL ELECTION, Labor Bus. April 17, 2025. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on the campaign trail in Queensland. The Prime Minister, Treasurer Jim Chalmers and Labor's Candidate for Bonner, Kara Cook, visit the Goodstart Early Learning Wishart. The Prime Minister is also be joined by Acting CEO of Goodstart, Jeff Harvie. Picture: Mark Stewart / NewsWire

Labor to target vow over lower budget

Labor will release its pre-election costings within days and pressure Peter Dutton to outline where he will cut spending as part of his pledge to deliver a better budget bottom line.

Greg Brown and Geoff Chambers

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos APRIL 22: 2025 Opposition Leader Peter Dutton and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese during the third leaders' debate, The Great Debate hosted by Nine, during the 2025 federal election campaign at the Nine studio in Sydney, NSW, on Tuesday 22 April. Picture: Alex Ellinghausen / POOL/ via NewsWire

‘Liar, liar’: Leaders’ bitter row over campaign truths

Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton have engaged in a tense exchange over claims of lying and abuse.

Geoff Chambers and Sarah Ison

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Leader of the Opposition Peter Dutton to debate at the ABC while on the 2025 election campaign trail. Picture: NewsWIre

Dutton in $22.5bn nuke-scare fightback

Peter Dutton will say households and small businesses have been hit with an extra $22.5bn in costs under Labor power price rises, as he moves to counter Labor’s nuclear energy scare campaign.

Geoff Chambers

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NCA 2025 FEDERAL ELECTION, Labor Bus. April 21, 2025. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on the campaign trail in Victoria. The Prime Minister is in St Kilda meeting with the team from Street Side Medics. The PM is joined by Josh Burns MP, Member for Macnamara, Daniel Nour, Founder Street Side Medics and 2022 Young Australian of the Year, Nicholas Brown, CEO Street Side Medics and Grant Fenton, Victoria Manager Street Side Medics. Picture: Mark Stewart / NewsWire

Albanese gags his anti-Greens MP Josh Burns

Anthony Albanese has muzzled the only Labor MP who has refused to preference the Greens, as the ALP spends millions of dollars sandbagging at-risk electorates.

Geoff Chambers, Rhiannon Down and Thomas Henry

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Greens’ tax break wrecking ball for housing

Rents in capital cities would jump by $83 a week if housing tax breaks are abolished, according to modelling which finds rent caps would trigger a mass withdrawal of rental properties.

Geoff Chambers

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NCA 2025 FEDERAL ELECTION, Labor Bus. April 18, 2025. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on the campaign trail in Nee South Wales. The PM heads out for a casual walk at a Lane Cove West dog park with his fiancÅ½ Jodie Haydon, Jack Russell Terrier Toto and Member for Bennelong Jerome Laxale with his partner Jo Taranto and their dog Toby. Picture: Mark Stewart / NewsWire

No stroll in the park but ALP bullish

Anthony Albanese’s strategists believe he is closer to majority government after a recovery in NSW and Victoria. Opposition frontbenchers are ‘dumbfounded’ by an unpopular Labor government.

Geoff Chambers and Greg Brown

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NCA 2025 FEDERAL ELECTION, Labor Bus. April 17, 2025. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on the campaign trail in Queensland. The Prime Minister and Treasurer Jim Chalmers meet with Labor candidate for Brisbane Madonna Jarrett, Labor Candidate for Griffith Renee Coffey and university students at local watering hole The Paddo. Picture: Mark Stewart / NewsWire

Why a housing tax shake-up may end up back on the table for Labor

The Prime Minister and Treasurer are splitting hairs to suggest the government didn’t commission Treasury analysis on negative gearing changes or that the advice was not modelling.

Geoff Chambers

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27/02/2025: Deputy Leader of the Opposition Sussan Ley with a student at Hunter Trade College in Telarah, New South Wales. Hunter Trade College delivers school based apprenticeships and traineeships giving students a trade and a Year 12 Certificate. Picture: Supplied

Dutton’s $260m bid to get kids into trades

Peter Dutton will pledge to build 12 new technical colleges under a $260m plan aimed at training high school students in trades.

Geoff Chambers

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton debate at the ABCâ€™s Parramatta studio in Western Sydney, moderated by David Speers. April 16, 2025, day 19 of the 2025 federal election campaign. Picture: Matt Roberts/ Pool/ ABC/

PM’s truthfulness on tax modelling up for debate during TV bout

Anthony Albanese claimed during the second debate his government didn’t model an overhaul of negative gearing and the capital gains tax discount, despite Jim Chalmers last year revealing he tasked Treasury to provide advice on paring back the property tax breaks.

Geoff Chambers and Jack Quail

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NCA 2025 FEDERAL ELECTION LIBERAL BUS. 15/04/2025Pictured at Maddingleyin the Hawke Electorate of Melbourne in Victoria is Harry Dutton , Opposition Leader Peter Dutton and Shadow Housing Minister Michael Sukkar as they arrive to a new homes construction site.Picture: Richard Dobson / Newswire

Super housing war erupts as firms fall over

The Coalition accuses super funds of pouring ‘more than $4.4bn’ into residential housing while spending millions campaigning against Peter Dutton’s super for housing policy.

Geoff Chambers and Matthew Cranston

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