Australia’s energy operator and one of the country’s biggest industrial users have issued election-eve warnings on gas shortages, demanding more supply be brought online to keep the lights on and ease soaring price pressures.
Peter Dutton’s hopes of a Nicolle Flint comeback in the must-win South Australian seat of Boothby risk being cancelled out by a shock loss in Sturt, the former stronghold of moderate powerbroker Christopher Pyne.
Australians are poised to send a blunt message to both Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton on Saturday night if the final Newspoll on the eve of the election is any indication.
Peter Dutton’s seat of Dickson has been one of Anthony Albanese’s top targets during the 2025 election campaign.
Better campaigning means nothing if you don’t win the vote and the Prime Minister faces the danger of being seen to have ‘lost’ if he loses Labor’s majority in the House.
Trade derangement from the White House has roiled the world and transformed the local contest. Suddenly, the times don’t suit Peter Dutton.
Coalition strategists believe Peter Dutton can win as many as 10 seats from Labor, three from teal independents and one from the Greens – but admit he needs a miracle to beat Anthony Albanese.
Peter Dutton continues to hammer home cost of living messaging as Julian Assange praises Anthony Albanese for doing ‘more to secure my freedom than any other politician or public figure’.
Peter Dutton’s reshaping of the energy market would gut more than $10bn out of Anthony Albanese’s climate change, renewables and environment programs as part of savings to deliver $13.9bn in lower deficits than Labor.
The Coalition’s detailed budget costings document is probably more revealing about Peter Dutton’s agenda for government than the totality of policies they have announced so far during the campaign.
A UWA law lecturer on Tuesday donned a T-shirt that read ‘good morning to everyone except Peter Dutton’ and delivered a lecture on how it was ‘unfortunate’ the Greens were not a major party.
As the Prime Minister warns Australians about ‘pretty hateful stuff’ on social media, the Labor Party is waging a vicious personal war on the Liberal leader online.
Labor is increasingly confident it can hold on to most, if not all, of its gains in the key state of Western Australia as it invokes the voice of Mark McGowan in its push to hurt Peter Dutton.
The Opposition Leader is not giving up on Saturday’s election, promising “lots of surprises” when the counting gets underway despite recent polls.
Opposition public service spokeswoman Jane Hume says the Coalition’s public service cuts would reduce the headcount of the Australian Public Service by 41,000 in Canberra, as Treasurer Jim Chalmers labels the Coalition a ‘joke’ and ‘sham’.
Peter Dutton is ramping up his claim that Labor is plotting a de facto “inheritance tax” on super balances over $3 million, as the polls suggest he’s taken another hit.
After a decade of bestowing philanthropic largesse on many a worthy cause, Margin Call hears the Packer Family Foundation run by James and sister Gretel is being wound down.
From Russia trying to sneak bombers onto Australia’s doorstep to Chinese warships lurking off the vast coastline, the country is staring down uncertain times.
Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton’s election promises will require big tax rises or substantial spending cuts. If that doesn’t happen, Australia’s AAA credit rating is in danger.
Anthony Albanese has landed in Perth and is travelling to a pre-poll booth on the border of two hotly contested seats in WA; vows to visit the state at least 10 times per year if re-elected.
Doing deals, not good policy, will be the future parliamentary brawl of the day, pleasing media which has been correctly blamed as major contributors to our accelerating political decline.
Peter Dutton has shared a traumatic memory from his time as a police officer – in the name of highlighting an important challenge Australia faces.
There are some parts of the country that are buying Peter Dutton’s message and not buying Labor’s. The question is whether it will be enough for the Coalition to make the inroads it needs.
Chinese-language signs tie Peter Dutton and the Liberal candidate for Tangney to Scott Morrison, who had a fractious relationship with China and parts of the Chinese community.
The Climate 200-backed teal independent candidate running against Opposition Leader Peter Dutton in his Brisbane electorate volunteered for the Greens in the seat at the last election.
Peter Dutton is moving to distance himself from Donald Trump’s foreign aid cuts, pledging an extra $2bn in Pacific infrastructure loans to counter surging Chinese influence.
Ellie Smith, a Climate 200-backed Teal Independent candidate running against Opposition Leader Peter Dutton in his Brisbane electorate, volunteered for the party during the 2022 federal election.
You have to give it to the geniuses advising Peter Dutton in this campaign. In their desperation to minimise any political differences with Labor, they have ignored a tax policy blunder from their opponents.
Peter Dutton was spot-on in the fourth debate to link the proliferation of welcome to country ceremonies to Anthony Albanese’s failed voice referendum.
One Nation has put most Coalition candidates second on their how to vote cards, ending a 30-year-old standoff with the Liberal Party over preferences.
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