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.
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.
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.
Australian Industry Group chief executive Innes Willox says working from home provisions in the enterprise agreement covering federal public servants have ‘gone too far’.
The winner of the first debate of the 2025 federal election has been revealed.
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.
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.
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.
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.
As the Prime Minister prepares for his first election debate, Treasurer Jim Chalmers held crisis talks with bank bosses over Trump’s tariffs.
The clash on Medicare bulk billing highlights how Peter Dutton has got the balance right between aggression and civility.
With northern Australia becoming far more strategically significant since 2015, booting out the Chinese company will be a positive election outcome.
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.
Albo’s electioneering penchant for picking up babies appears to be working.
Liberals are banking on mining magnate Clive Palmer taking the heat off Peter Dutton over the importation of Donald Trump policies to Australia.
Undermining your political standing with the working parents you are trying to win over looks like a spectacular own goal by the Opposition Leader.
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.
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.
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’.
Taxpayer subsidies cannot be the answer to every policy challenge
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.
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.
Labor’s primary vote will have to lift if it wants to be confident of being returned to government with a majority.
Shadow treasurer Angus Taylor has written to Treasury to demand daily briefings during the election campaign, as the Trump tariffs hit the economy.
Anthony Albanese’s decision to begin the second full week of the election campaign at a Brisbane rally showcases how crucial it is for Labor to win seats in Peter Dutton’s home state.
Labor is now leading the Coalition 52-48 on a two-party preferred basis, with the single-point gain mirroring the 2022 election result, despite voters backing Peter Dutton as the stronger and more decisive leader.
The main headline from the first week of Peter Dutton’s campaign for the May 3 election came from a misguided kick of the Sherrin in Darwin, not policy.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has rallied the party faithful in the election fight against the influence of two men: Peter Dutton and Donald Trump.
Anthony Albanese’s ABC radio interview on Friday was meant to be a cunning political ploy, showing that Labor had thought of the idea of pushing China from the Port of Darwin first. It turned into a word salad of uncertainty, dressed in contradictions and confusion.
The Coalition has announced details of the caps it will place on international students studying in Australia in a move it says will ease housing pressures.
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