Heat is on as PM gives Allan the cold shoulder
Anthony Albanese has snubbed Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan in his first day of campaigning in Melbourne amid fears her unpopular state government will drag down Labor’s vote.
Anthony Albanese
Albanese is peddling a populist fantasy
The Prime Minister claims the age-old laws of economics no longer apply. But decent real wage growth is not sustainable without a huge lift in productivity.
Beijing praises PM, accuses Dutton of ‘beating the drums of war’
Beijing accused Australia of ‘paranoia’ over a Chinese research vessel, as a government-owned masthead suggests the Chinese government’s preferences in the May 3 election.
Why Trump spells danger for Dutton
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.
Dutton must change his tune amid business shock over polling
The business and investment communities are shocked opinion polls show voters prefer Anthony Albanese. Here’s what Peter Dutton needs to do to stem the tide.
Albo’s posts with Abbie Chatfield investigated
The AEC will review Anthony Albanese and Greens leader Adam Bandt’s social media posts with podcaster Abbie Chatfield.
Albanese leaves door open to WTO challenge over Trump’s tariffs
The Prime Minister says Australia is prepared for all possibilities ahead of the US President’s ‘Liberation Day’ announcement that could impose sweeping tariffs of up to 20pc.
RBA says economy ready to cope with global shocks
Above-inflation pay rises must be backed with productivity gains.
China spy ship must be checked
PM compromised on speaking plainly in face of obvious provocations.
Albo defends payrise for millions of Aussies
Anthony Albanese has defended backing an above-inflation pay rise for about three million of Australia’s lowest paid workers.
‘Australia first’: PM ready for trade row
Anthony Albanese is vowing an Australia-first response if the nation is hit by Donald Trump’s new tariffs this week, as Labor steps up efforts to paint Peter Dutton as a Trump copycat.
Victoria is on a railroad to nowhere
Anthony Albanese is facing a quagmire of Labor’s own doing in Victoria but don’t expect the public sector to get on the Dutton train.
Albo’s warning to Trump on tariff threat
The Prime Minister says there are several issues of concern the US has raised that could attract tariffs on President Donald Trump’s “Day of Liberation” list.
Why Anthony Albanese is really cosying up to ‘influencers’
Millennials and Gen Z are set to become the biggest voting cohort in May and the Prime Minister is hoping to be ‘liked’ back into The Lodge.
‘All over the shop’: PM’s China ship gaffe
The Prime Minister has stumbled over agency names as he tried to assure Australians that our national security is not under threat.
‘Growth will pick up’: RBA doesn’t anticipate recession
The Reserve Bank does not expect Australia to experience a recession in the year ahead, despite growing concern from some analysts that the United States’ economy could shrink.
Voters won’t ‘buy’ PM’s promise to punish supermarkets
How can the PM crack down on so-called price gouging by supermarkets when his own investigative body, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, has found no evidence of it?
Albanese’s $150m play for key seat
As he adds another state to the nation-spanning early days of his campaign, Anthony Albanese is playing defence.
$150m ALP health centre fillip
Anthony Albanese will invest in a new $300m medical centre in Adelaide, as the Prime Minister intensifies his attacks on Peter Dutton over Medicare.
Detainees walk to freedom through mandatory sentence loophole
Anthony Albanese’s mandatory minimum sentencing laws threatening 12 months’ jail for hundreds of dangerous NZYQ non-citizens who breach visa conditions have been ‘bungled’, with a loophole allowing offenders to remain free.
ALP’s ‘private power price claim’
Labor has been accused of privately assuring industry wholesale electricity prices will fall over the next decade while refusing to make the same promise publicly.
Coalition heat on PM over China link
James Paterson said the Prime Minister needed to explain if a vice-president of an organisation linked to China’s United Front attended his fundraiser.
China spy ship has Labor all at sea
Defence has handed responsibility for the monitoring of a suspected Chinese spy ship to the Australian Border Force despite Anthony Albanese’s claim that the ADF is on the case.
Labor price-gouging pledge ‘unlikely to have much effect’
Anthony Albanese has pledged Labor will outlaw supermarket price gouging. Could Australia take inspiration from similar laws in the European Union or the US? It’s complicated.
Supermarkets hit back at Albo on prices
Supermarket giants Coles and Woolworths have slammed election pledges from Labor and the Coalition to tackle price gouging.
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?
Supermarket boss sick of price gouging ‘slurs’ after PM’s barb
Fred Harrison has been working in supermarkets for 50 years, and comments from the election trail have left him fuming. Meanwhile, former ACCC chair Allan Fels says profit gouging is hard to prove.
Negative numbers don’t spell defeat
Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton might both enter the election race with net negative approval ratings but this isn’t uncommon.
Dutton’s $10m pledge to flooded Outback
Anthony Albanese has been accused of neglecting regional Australia, as southwestern Outback Queensland faces the worst flooding in years.
Just 21 of 400 of ALP’s community batteries are operational
Anthony Albanese promised a $200m spend at the last election to ‘support 100,000 households by storing energy from solar households during the day, and drawing on it at night’.
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