Federal Election 2025
Answering your questions
Housing help and tax cuts promised: Week three of the election tour
Where it went wrong for Albanese and Plibersek
The rise of the Teals: How independent MPs could shape the next government
What are the positive and negative impacts of immigration on Australia?
Should MPs who resign from their party also resign from Parliament?
What is the Coalition’s best-case Senate result?
WATCH | How will tariffs affect the economy, industry and the election?
Albanese leads, Dutton flails: Election Week Two
Will superannuation rules and tax change further?
What happens if the PM or opposition leader loses their seat?
What is a minority government?
Could Australia ever get fixed four-year terms?
Why this worker could be voting Liberal
Election Explainers
WATCH: Key election issues explained – The cost of living crisis
Journalist Glen Norris explains how each party is tackling the cost of living, and how it will play a significant part in the 2025 Federal election….
Key election issues explained: Anti-Semitism
NSW Political Correspondent Alexi Demetriadi explains how each party is tackling the key issue of Anti-Semitism, and how it will play a significant…
WATCH: How each party is tackling the key issue of healthcare
Senior health journalist Penny Timms explains how each party is tackling the key issue of healthcare, and how it will play a significant part…
Key election issues explained: Energy
Environment Editor Graham Lloyd explains how each party is tackling the issue of Energy, and how it will play a significant part in the 2025…
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Election Commentary
COMMENTARY
Should Australian correspondents be based in Xi’s China?
Australia has specific issues with China – good, bad and in-between – that will be covered only by Australian reporters. China is a tough assignment, but it’s too important to outsource to the ‘wires’.
BACK TO WORK
Breath of fresh heir in Albanese image remake
To the disengaged it’s common, yet a young man accompanying his father to work means a lot more when Dad’s the leader of the country.
COMMENTARY
They couldn’t, could they? Labor’s audacious Tassie power grab
A party with just 10 seats out of 35 cobbling together a patchwork government? Is it a progressive pact – or a plain potty plot?
COMMENTARY
Without urgent change, state faces financial disaster
Whoever wins Saturday’s Tasmanian election may soon wish they hadn’t. The state is sinking into a fiscal quagmire frightening in scale.
FEEDING THE CHOOKS
Why minister on $300k hasn’t rented a bachelor pad after split from wife
The lid has been lifted on the worst-kept secret in Queensland politics as Chooks reveals Mike Kaiser’s golden handshake.
COMMENTARY
No more weasel words: Albanese’s anti-Semitism challenge
It’s time to progress far past the platitudes. The Prime Minister’s Albanese’s rhetoric on anti-Semitism is under scrutiny as calls for decisive action grow louder.
Latest election news
Testing the Waters: Greens leader backs party purge to enforce transgender zeal
The Greens’ new leader, Larissa Waters, is resisting calls to intervene in the widening row over the minority party’s embrace of transgender rights and halt a purge of members who don’t toe the line.
Brawl over bid to shape AI future
Miners are preparing for a fight with unions over how much power Labor gives them in blocking billions of dollars worth of investment in artificial technology out of fear jobs will be lost.
Quarter of GP clinics won’t bulk bill, bureaucrats warn
In stark advice to the government, Mark Butler’s mega-department has questioned how many doctors a proposed Labor measure would encourage to join its amended bulk-billing practice incentive program.
Bureaucrats face wider backlash on rock bans
Parks Victoria is under pressure from all parties to resolve the impasse over rock climbing bans at Mt Arapiles.
Economist likens Chalmers’ reform push to Deng
A leading economist has likened Jim Chalmers’ approach to lifting lacklustre productivity growth to that of communist reformer Deng Xiaoping’s bid to liberalise the Chinese economy.
First Nations envoy’s $730k travel bill for taxpayers
Justin Mohamed was appointed inaugural First Nations ambassador in 2023 and was tasked with ‘implementing a First Nations approach to foreign policy’. Here’s his office’s travel bill.
LNP offers secret perks to keep smelter open
Global mining giant Glencore has been offered several secretive financial incentives by the Crisafulli government to save hundreds of jobs after the firm threatened to close its Mount Isa copper smelter.
Latham portrait to remain in Labor caucus
A portrait of former Labor leader Mark Latham will remain on the wall of the party’s federal caucus room in Parliament House, but now bears a plaque noting the ALP’s rejection of his values.
Ley pledges to take ‘fight up to’ Albanese
Sussan Ley has vowed the Coalition will not ‘get out of the way’ of Anthony Albanese, as Coalition frontbenchers dismissed the significance of a collapse in opposition support in the latest poll.
Opposition push for audit of ALP’s $10bn housing fund
The Albanese government’s auditor is considering an investigation into Labor’s $10bn Housing Australia Future Fund after claims from the Coalition the fund was not performing properly.
States ‘doing heavy lifting on productivity’
Queensland Treasurer David Janetzki says he would have ‘loved to have seen a Queensland presence’ at the federal government’s economic roundtable in August.
Emergency funding for ‘underwater bushfire’
The federal government has finally acted after tens of thousands of fish, sharks, rays and seahorses washed up dead and dying on the South Australian coastline.
Labor’s giant slayer: Voters got personal to boot out Bandt
New MP Sarah Witty says the seat of Melbourne turned against Adam Bandt rather than the Greens broadly, adding voters ‘just had enough’.
‘Social justice doesn’t stop’: Greens leader backs co-founder’s expulsion
Larissa Waters has defended the party’s decision to expel Drew Hutton and hit out at the 78-year-old activist after he denounced the Greens as an intolerant ‘cult’.
PM reveals he shared jokes with Xi, but Taiwan wasn’t raised
Anthony Albanese has declined to share what ‘personal’ topics he discussed with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a one-hour lunch, but said they discussed their backgrounds and shared jokes.
‘Silenced big ambitions’: ex-Andrews chief of staff slams Labor
Lissie Ratcliff, who ran Daniel Andrews’ office for seven years, says the ‘big miss’ of the voice referendum contributed to federal Labor going to the last election without a ‘big vision’.
Greens vow to use power for the ‘better’
Sarah Hanson-Young has left the door open to the Greens using its numbers in the Senate to block Labor’s agenda to push for stronger action, declaring voters handed the minor party the sole balance of power to act as a ‘backstop’.
New class of Labor giant-killers ready for first house call
What does it take to be a Labor giant-killer and take out an opposition leader, Greens firebrands or long-serving incumbent MP? For the class of 2025 it meant hard work, grit and months on the hustings.
PM’s vows to draw red lines for his Trump meeting
Anthony Albanese says he will draw clear lines when he meets Donald Trump on the limits of the nations’ partnership.
‘Shorter hours, not tax cuts’: Unions in productivity roundtable rebellion
Anthony Albanese is facing a push by unions to back a shorter working week and more holidays in return for productivity gains.
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