Top five move in to take the reins
Richard Marles will be defence minister and Don Farrell is expected to be deputy senate leader in the Albanese government, with Deborah O’Neill and Jenny McAllister tipped for cabinet.
Labor Party
Albanese does it: New PM ‘gets down to business’
Anthony Albanese will be sworn in as prime minister on Monday, pledging to implement the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full and take tougher action on climate change.
Challenges of economic reality
Anthony Albanese will be sworn in today amid amplified financial market volatility and rising dread of a global slowdown.
Voters’ rejection of the status quo can’t be ignored
This is a watershed moment for Australian politics. The depth of disillusionment in the two-party system is unmistakeable and the tipping point has finally arrived.
PM’s warning: a decade of deeper Labor deficits
Scott Morrison will make an election-eve plea to stick with the Coalition amid fears of a global recession, rising interest rates and inflation.
Debt-laden promises a joke lost in timing
The sting has gone out of the once tricky question: how are you going to pay for it? Labor’s response is: the same way the Coalition paid for policy proposals – by putting it on the tab.
Labor blitz as race edges to photo finish
Anthony Albanese will lead a two-day, five-state blitz of 20 marginal seats as he attempts to hold off a late swing to the Coalition.
Classified: Marles’ questions over nuclear subs
In a classified briefing, deputy Labor leader Richard Marles questioned security and defence chiefs about the decision to scrap the French deal in favour of nuclear-powered submarines.
Albanese’s 100-day plan for a ‘better future’
Anthony Albanese believes he will preside over a fundamental change in Australia with a new style of leadership, beginning with an ambitious plan if he wins the election.
Lips sealed: Q but no A as Albo refuses to answer
It was an attempt at media management that ended in chaos when Anthony Albanese cut short a press conference.
I’ll take reins immediately: Albanese
Anthony Albanese will have himself sworn in as PM and Penny Wong as foreign minister as soon as Sunday to attend the Quadrilateral meeting in Tokyo if Labor wins the election.
Labor’s cash boost for public servants
Labor’s costings will reveal funding boosts across the Australian Public Service and more for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to combat China.
Albo’s win will inspire battlers
Anthony Albanese is relentless in pursuit of his rightful victory. Even if Scott Morrison offered every voter a gold bar he would still fail.
Labor prepares election eve costings dump
With the Coalition to today unveil its costings – featuring $1 billion in savings – Anthony Albanese has again refused to rule out running higher deficits.
I was right not to let Labor in on AUKUS: PM
Scott Morrison denies Anthony Albanese’s claims the US expected Labor to be briefed in advance on the sub deal.
Labor deputy leader’s China syndrome
Richard Marles held 10 meetings with the Chinese embassy or officials in the past five years when tensions were escalating in the Sino-Australia relationship.
ALP to crack down on forced labour
Major companies that import goods from China would have to guarantee their supply chains were free from Uighur forced labour under an Albanese government plan.
Albanese’s wages plan reckless, dangerous: PM
Scott Morrison has accused Anthony Albanese of engineering a reckless and dangerous act by supporting at least a 5.1 per cent minimum wage increase.
Albanese’s tag team of Labor premiers
Anthony Albanese is using Labor premiers to convince voters the combative relationship between state and federal governments will end if he becomes prime minister.
Labor to pay top students to be teachers
An Albanese government would pay high-achieving students up to $12,000 a year to study an education degree as part of a plan to improve teacher quality.
Albanese to dive deeper into debt
Labor off-budget spending would cause debt to balloon by another $52bn to pay for climate change and affordable housing.
ALP momentum points to firm majority
Scott Morrison’s task of retaining government is now considerable. Any notion of a hung parliament is extinguished on these latest Newspoll numbers.
Viewers declare second debate a tie
More than 30,000 viewers were unable to declare a winner in the debate between Anthony Albanese and Scott Morrison in Sydney on Sunday night.
Verdict: Who won week four of the campaign?
In a mixed week for both major parties, Anthony Albanese buckled as Labor’s policies were put under the microscope, and events hit the Coalition.
Labor childcare estimates too rosy
Anthony Albanese’s uncosted promise of ‘universal childcare’ relies on selective modelling and overstates the short-term economic benefits of the key policy.
Whipping up homeowner hysteria a risk for Labor
While the first rate rise in more than a decade – and the first in an election campaign since 2007 – may not appear to be good news for Scott Morrison or mortgagors, it’s not fantastic news for Anthony Albanese either.
Albanese’s Labor strategy is rhetoric-rich, policy-poor
There has never been a Labor launch like this. Powerful rhetoric and symbolism to conceal the most modest policy offering from federal Labor at any election in the past 50 years.
Albo’s speech decoded: Strategy, tactics laid bare
Anthony Albanese’s campaign launch was infused with Labor tribalism, delivered with his usual blend of indignation and passion.
Life will be ‘cheaper’ under me: Albanese vow
Anthony Albanese pledges to change Australia ‘for the better’ by providing cheaper childcare, power bills, electric vehicles, medicines and mortgages.
Labor holds big 2PP lead as PM rises in Newspoll
Scott Morrison’s approval rating rises to its highest level this year despite a lift in primary support for Labor.
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