Labor’s Housing Minister star guest at teal MP’s event
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.
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Biggest creditor: Sanjeev Gupta’s GFG owed $500m from Whyalla
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.
Voters deserve a better debate
Targeting Peter Dutton’s personal finances is a grubby tactic that could backfire against Labor.
He thinks he can, but Albanese’s little engine is tanking
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.
Dutton comes out swinging over smears, defends ‘astute’ investments
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’.
There’s no room for big spending
Even before the starting gun is fired, the election race is producing alarming levels of spending that will not help the nation long term.
Questions raised over Dutton’s ‘unusual’ share trades
Peter Dutton has been accused of ‘highly unusual’ share trades following a report about stock buying during the GFC.
ABC spent $1.1m on legal fees in defence against Lattouf case
The ABC has spent $1.1 million on external legal fees in its defence of the unlawful termination case brought by fill-in presenter Antoinette Lattouf.
Dutton flags $24bn of cuts to the public service
Peter Dutton says he will offset increased spending on Medicare by cutting $6bn a year out of the public service, raising the prospect he will cull all of the 36,000 jobs added by the Albanese government.
Citizenship ceremonies ‘timed’ around Burke’s calendar
Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke instructed staff to organise the timing of a citizenship blitz around his ‘window of availability’, giving him a chance to pose up in front of new voters ahead of the election, his department secretary revealed in Senate estimates on Monday.
Fiscal discipline goes overboard in race for votes
Peter Dutton’s race to outbid Labor’s splurge on Medicare shows his policies are a world away from his rhetoric on budget discipline.
Fears for health of budget: whacking election on nation’s credit card
Peter Dutton has raised doubts about the Coalition’s commitment to fiscal prudence after immediately outbidding Labor’s $8.5bn spending splurge on Medicare without any detail on how it would be paid for.
Leaders’ ‘friendly’ interviews as election draws near
Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton hit the podcasts and their preferred media outlets as Abbie Chatfield declares ‘my primary goal in this is to get Labor back into government’.
Burke targets ‘angry’ Dutton in pre-election citizenship blitz
Tony Burke has invoked his pre-election citizenship blitz, declaring Peter Dutton is ‘getting angry about people making a pledge of commitment to Australia’.
Coalition outbids Labor on Medicare with $9bn splurge
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has declared he will match the government’s healthcare vow and inject an extra $500m into mental health support, after Anthony Albanese revived Labor’s Mediscare campaign at a rally earlier on Sunday.
Dutton will ‘cut Medicare off at the knees’: PM
Anthony Albanese has accused Peter Dutton of planning on ‘cutting bulk billing off at the knees’, as he ramps up his claims a Coalition government would dismantle Medicare after pledging $8.5bn for taxpayer-funded doctor visits.
Dutton’s huge $9bn Medicare counter move
Peter Dutton has matched the Albanese government’s historic Medicare funding pledge and raised it by half a billion dollars.
Quotas on steel in Albanese’s mix for energy
Anthony Albanese will impose local content requirements and pump $500m into green manufacturing to prop-up his clean energy and wind turbine agenda, as Peter Dutton attacked green hydrogen as a ‘hoax’.
Demand to Dutton on penalty rates
A major union is calling on the Coalition to pledge support for retail workers’ penalty rates ahead of a Fair Work fight.
PM says forces monitoring Chinese ships as Beijing dismisses tests as ‘safe’
Anthony Albanese says Australian and New Zealand forces are monitoring the warships for live firing nearby as Penny Wong demands transparency, as China maintains they are ‘in accordance with international law’.
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