Donald Trump has slammed Malcolm Turnbull after the former prime minister warned the US’s poor treatment of its allies was providing ‘an opportunity’ for Chinese President Xi Jinping.
The Opposition Leader says it is ‘unbelievable’ that the Prime Minister is even considering putting Australian boots on the ground in Ukraine.
The Prime Minister may be regretting his decision to postpone his calling of the election after Labor delivered an emphatic result across metropolitan Perth, with the Liberals failing to claw back ground in former stronghold seats.
Election 2025 looms as one of the most dangerous elections for many decades, as neither leader appears up to the challenge of the new strategic realities faced by Australia.
If you had to offer one word for Anthony Albanese, it would be weak. Weak on confronting anti-Semitism, weak on standing up to China and weak on taking responsibility for anything. He has become the nation’s spectator in chief – and Peter Dutton needs to take advantage with controlled aggression.
Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton will be forced by seismic world events and by Donald Trump to place Australia on a fast-track to sharply increased defence spending.
The Gold Coast airport has closed and the Queensland Premier says ‘now’s the time’ to leave at-risk properties after 70 people evacuate from South Stradbroke Island. Defence Minister ‘confident’ about AUKUS under Trump.
Anthony Albanese has committed to going head-to-head with Peter Dutton on the ABC during the election campaign.
Peter Dutton’s call to banish work-from-home rights for Australia’s 185,000-strong public servant workforce has been lashed as “lazy”.
China on Tuesday said it would apply retaliatory tariffs to the United States as of next week in response to a hike in levies by Washington.
The RBA’s rate cut has not delivered the pre-election bump Anthony Albanese had hoped for, but it isn’t good news for Peter Dutton either.
Monique Ryan has doubled down on her attack on Peter Dutton’s ‘regressive’ housing policies, as teal MPs ramp up their criticism of the Coalition ahead of the federal election.
Donald Trump’s infamous stoush with Ukraine’s president has sparked security fears in Australia and a warning we may need to rethink our reliance on the US.
The Opposition Leader has ruled out supporting boots on the ground in Sir Keir Starmer’s Ukraine ‘coalition’, while issuing his strongest criticism so far of Donald Trump’s stoush with President Zelensky.
The first major defence commitment of the campaign has come from Peter Dutton and it is a good one.
In his response to China’s gunboat diplomacy in the Tasman Sea, Anthony Albanese missed the chance to relegate Peter Dutton to an also-ran, just as John Howard did to Kim Beazley in 2001.
The PM has defended the government’s response to Chinese warships that appear to be circumnavigating Australia, using a Morrison government decision to sign off on leasing the Port of Darwin in his attacks of opposition criticism.
A Coalition government would obtain an extra 28 F-35 joint strike fighters from the United States, Peter Dutton says, and boost the RAAF stealth jet fleet to 100.
It’s evident that the government has entered a fatal twilight zone where the electorate is no longer listening to its message or responding to its largesse.
It might be the Prime Minister’s last stand, but taxpayers be warned: the big spending era will roll on.
Peter Dutton has declared that Anthony Albanese’s leadership is ‘over’ and the race to replace him is under way, pointing to a flurry of high-profile appearances by senior cabinet ministers as proof they’re waiting in the wings.
Godwin Grech has blasted ‘insinuations’ from ministers that he had any connection to Peter Dutton’s handling of shares during the GFC.
Defending media scrutiny against historic share transactions, Peter Dutton has gone on the attack against the PM, positing a change in Labor leadership.
The PM played down the presence of the warships amid speculation they will circumnavigate Australia, and the Defence Industry Minister claimed ‘the highest level of surveillance’ was being deployed.
Jim Chalmers has launched a pre-election campaign blitz in vulnerable NSW Hunter and central coast seats, as he answers the calls of Labor MPs concerned that surging support for Peter Dutton and Anthony Albanese’s unpopularity will cost them their seats.
Labor’s Housing Minister Clare O’Neil will be the star attraction at one of teal MP Monique Ryan’s key pre-election events, as the crossbenchers go on the offensive against Peter Dutton.
The British industrial magnate said his company’s focus is on ‘supporting Whyalla while safeguarding our interests’ and is working closely with the collapsed steelworks’ administrators.
Targeting Peter Dutton’s personal finances is a grubby tactic that could backfire against Labor.
Anthony Albanese’s election train has left the station and Labor MPs believe there is no turning back, amid fears that waiting until May could deliver Peter Dutton the keys to The Lodge.
The Opposition Leader has challenged Anthony Albanese to speak up rather than hide behind dirt unit ‘lackeys’, saying he was proud of his successful investments while noting the PM was also a ‘multi-millionaire’.
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