Referendums ruled out: Dutton
Peter Dutton says referendums recognising Indigenous Australians in the Constitution and creating fixed four-year terms will not proceed under a Coalition government without bipartisan support.
Anthony Albanese
I don’t need Scott Morrison to take on Trump: Dutton
Anthony Albanese has denied tying Peter Dutton to US President Donald Trump as Labor tries to get an exemption from the White House tariffs.
Leaders pledge to crack down on ‘rip-offs’
Anthony Albanese has struggled to define price gouging and claimed it is when supermarkets ‘take the piss’, as supermarket giants Coles and Woolworths decried Labor’s election attacks.
‘Visit Alice without cops’, leaders urged
Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton are being urged to visit crime-ridden Alice Springs during the election campaign, and see it without police being sent to clear the streets beforehand.
Battling businesses demand a break from both parties
Small business owners have launched an election blitz of marginal seats, pressuring Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton to slash company taxes for mum-and-dad operators.
Poll surprise for Albo on election trail
The first polls of the election campaign have been released, showing it’s a very tight race but with one party just in front – but it’s not all good news.
Albanese donor linked to foreign influence body
Thousands of dollars was accepted from a long-term office holder of a controversial Chinese group red-flagged by the Attorney-General as an agent of foreign influence.
Albanese’s ruthlessness on display in campaign persona turnaround
If there is one thing Anthony Albanese lives and breathes for, it is cold, calculated, savage politics. As a party official, staffer and politician, it is all he knows.
‘Prices will come down’: Dutton vows to release more energy figures
Peter Dutton says voters can trust the Coalition to ‘always clean up Labor’s mess’ when questioned how Australians can trust his promise to lower power prices without being given a dollar amount.
Price gouging to be illegal ‘by end of year’
Laws to make price gouging at supermarkets will go before parliament by “the end of the year” if Labor is elected, its campaign spokesman has declared.
Protesters crash both major parties’ campaigns
The prospect of protesters crashing the media events of major parties is set to be a key feature of the 2025 election campaign, after three separate activists infiltrated politicians’ events on the first day of the hustings.
Trump D-day to shake up campaign
Voters will be watching Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton closely this week, with another round of Trump tariffs set to shake up the campaign.
Honed Albanese’s real test is vision for small business, families
Anthony Albanese looks sharp and laser-focused, but he’ll need to move beyond a fear campaign against Peter Dutton and saving Medicare to win another majority government.
’Why are you lying’: Dutton event crashed
Climate protesters have crashed a second Peter Dutton event on a dramatic first day of campaigning for the May 3 federal election.
Dutton flags plans to axe emissions standard for cars
The opposition leader is ‘dead against’ the policy and will soon unveil a plan to bring down the cost of cars and utes.
Albanese targets Brisbane suburbs
Anthony Albanese spent his first day on the campaign hustings in federal Labor’s graveyard state of Queensland targeting seats held by the Coalition and the Greens.
‘I’m a reformist, not a revolutionary’, says PM
Anthony Albanese says there’s unfinished business to see to and he doesn’t plan on going anywhere, as he reveals his hardest decision, what drives him and the election choice for voters.
Albanese begins the campaign with confidence, but buckle up, it will be a wild ride
The generational surge in support for minor parties has so changed our political landscape that the 2025 election promises to be the most unpredictable in our history.
Packer’s treatment better than the rest
Anthony Albanese kickstarted the election campaign lauding our public hospitals for treating billionaires like Kerry Packer the same as everyone else, including himself. We run the ruler over his claim.
Leaders begin campaign of fear for May 3 poll
Anthony Albanese has launched a 37-day trench-warfare battle with Peter Dutton and linked his rival’s policies with Donald Trump, as Mr Dutton sharpened his cost-of-living pitch by declaring ‘energy is the economy’.
Who was the mastermind of Olympic rowing on croc-infested river?
Anthony Albanese’s union army goes on the march against Peter Dutton, and Chooks discovers who came up with the idea to host Olympic rowing in croc-infested Rockhampton.
Albanese ‘seeking majority government’
Anthony Albanese has declared he intends to win a majority government despite his fragile grip on power, shrugging off suggestions he may need to strike a deal with the crossbench.
Old rivals carry decades of political baggage into the election
With a combined 53 years in parliament, Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton’s greatest hits and stuff-ups are set to be weaponised during the five-week campaign.
Busting myths: the Newspoll analysis the PM won’t want to see
The notion that the Labor campaign machine is a superior outfit to that of the Liberals and Nationals is false, with Newspoll trends showing Labor going backwards in every campaign in the last seven elections.
Coalition takes aim at teals over ‘record of leaning Green’
The teals have been accused of siding with the Greens in at least two-thirds of all divisions during Labor’s three years in power.
‘Takes time’: Albo’s plea in TV pitch
The first television ads of the federal election campaign, with Anthony Albanese asking Australians to stick with him and Peter Dutton saying he can do better.
The big issues that will decide the election winner
Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton are offering voters two of the most starkly different agendas in recent Australian political history.
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RAAF boss ‘at ease’ with Labor plan, risks flak
Air force chief Stephen Chappell endorsed Labor’s management of the Defence portfolio just hours before Anthony Albanese called the election.
‘A masterstroke’: NRL unfazed by Magic Round election
ARLC boss Peter V’landys is unbothered that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has called this year’s federal election for May 3 – the same weekend as the NRL’s hugely popular Magic Round in Brisbane.
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