‘Dodgy’: Labor attacks Libs’ gas savings
The Prime Minister and Opposition Leader will be back on the road for day 12 of the election campaign after facing off in the first leaders debate.
Peter Dutton
Dutton gives update after dad’s heart attack
Peter Dutton’s father was rushed to hospital in Queensland after suffering a heart attack shortly before the first debate of the election campaign.
PM’s campaign walk on wild side at market; Cops gear up for Price appearance
Buoyed by his debate performance, Anthony Albanese has appeared at a Sydney market for the first ‘street walk’ of his campaign with Tanya Plibersek and Chris Minns in tow. Police, meantime, are preparing for protests at a WA appearance by Jacinta Nampijinpa Price today.
Trumpian turmoil sets decisive challenge for Dutton
Dutton has done a remarkable job bringing the Liberals from a hopeless position to being competitive against a weak Labor government. But are they really competitive in terms of their own agenda?
First leaders’ debate: Battle for ascendancy over Trump
Peter Dutton pledged to ‘stand up against bullies’ when questioned by voters on how he would deal with Donald Trump, as Anthony Albanese tried to paint the Liberals’ nuclear power plan as an excuse to secretly cut education and health.
Finally, Dutton finds his mojo
Finally, there is a contest. After a shaky first week, Peter Dutton needed to lift. And tonight he did.
Dutton’s plan to slash energy prices
Australian households electricity bills will be reduced by 3 per cent, with retail gas bills dropping by 7 per cent under Peter Dutton’s pledge to boost the supply of gas into the market.
Labor lifts spending higher than Covid years
Labor’s spending trajectory will reach more than $30,000 per person within the next four years, eclipse government expenditure during the Covid-19 pandemic, and reach the highest levels per capita on record.
Who won the first leaders’ debate: our experts deliver their verdicts
Shanahan, Benson, Sheridan, Harvey, Bramston, Kenny and Trinca analyse the performances of Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton in the first leaders’ debate of the election campaign.
Dutton’s gas blast to cut energy bills for households
Peter Dutton says the Coalition’s gas policy will reduce wholesale prices by 23 per cent, slash industrial retail gas bills by 15 per cent and cut 7 per cent from household costs.
Bosses tell Dutton to cut rights on WFH
Australian Industry Group chief executive Innes Willox says working from home provisions in the enterprise agreement covering federal public servants have ‘gone too far’.
Winner of first election debate revealed
The winner of the first debate of the 2025 federal election has been revealed.
Albanese’s ‘nasty’ attacks on Dutton may backfire in debate
The big question for the Prime Minister is whether he can afford to stay on a personal path when he’s standing opposite Peter Dutton on national television.
‘Uncertain times’: Clash over trade tariffs
Peter Dutton has warned Australia could be heading for a recession, as the PM promises the government is ready for the “uncertain times” that lay ahead.
How to watch crucial People’s Forum debate
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton will go head-to-head in tonight’s Sky News showdown. Here’s how you can watch it.
Dutton’s cryptic message over dumped Lib
The Opposition Leader said there were unpublicised reasons for the immediate dumping of a Liberal candidate who claimed women should not serve in combat roles.
Treasurer in crisis talks over tariff chaos
As the Prime Minister prepares for his first election debate, Treasurer Jim Chalmers held crisis talks with bank bosses over Trump’s tariffs.
Dutton thrives on the attack in first leaders’ debate
The clash on Medicare bulk billing highlights how Peter Dutton has got the balance right between aggression and civility.
Dutton and the Libs need to stop listening to the focus groups
The case for cutting back on public servants is clearly very strong, as is the case for making sure their work from home provisions are not being abused.
Darwin port best in local control
With northern Australia becoming far more strategically significant since 2015, booting out the Chinese company will be a positive election outcome.
Backflips on ports and WFH, batteries and business
Albo’s electioneering penchant for picking up babies appears to be working.
Libs back Clive as Trump magnet
Liberals are banking on mining magnate Clive Palmer taking the heat off Peter Dutton over the importation of Donald Trump policies to Australia.
Dutton’s WFH backflip raises fresh questions
Undermining your political standing with the working parents you are trying to win over looks like a spectacular own goal by the Opposition Leader.
Albo scores off Dutton’s WFH fail
The Prime Minister is on the attack as Peter Dutton reels from a spectacular about face on a key policy just one week into the election campaign.
Dutton torpedoes WFH policy after Labor’s dishonest attacks
The policy looked like a Trump-esque attack on public servants, with a Musk flavour of bureaucracy-cleansing. It added up to an attack on working mothers.
Treasurer flags May rate cut of up to 50 basis points, warns recession risk ‘much more substantial’
Jim Chalmers warns the repercussions of US tariffs are yet to play out, says the market expects up to four interest rate cuts this year, and there are ‘concerns about the Chinese economy’.
Poor to subsidise rich on household battery scheme
Taxpayer subsidies cannot be the answer to every policy challenge
Dutton walks back WFH threat
The Coalition has walked back threats to force public servants back into the office, while also revealing key details in their plan to cull the workforce by 41k.
Coalition axes unpopular WFH, jobs policies
A senior Coalition source says the jettisoning of his working from home policy for public servants was part of ‘cleaning up’ the negativities of Peter Dutton’s campaign amid flagging polls and Labor attacks.
While Dutton is drifting, PM shouldn’t be complacent
Labor’s primary vote will have to lift if it wants to be confident of being returned to government with a majority.
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