Albanese spends up on NBN … with every fibre
Anthony Albanese has promised to ‘finish’ the National Broadband Network, with Labor committing funds to provide 622,000 premises with access to fibre connections by 2030.
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Heat, high costs put councils off January 26 plan
Local councillors opposing Peter Dutton’s plan to make them hold Australia Day events are demanding compensation if they are forced to celebrate the national day.
Albanese, Dutton trade personal attacks as gloves come off
Anthony Albanese said Peter Dutton represented ‘a cold-hearted, mean-spirited, sometimes nasty response’ to governing, while the Opposition Leader called the Labor leader the ‘weakest prime minister since federation’.
‘Ashamed’: Dutton’s Australia Day call
Peter Dutton has doubled down on an Australia Day election promise, claiming the PM had signalled to councils the day is “something to be ashamed of”.
Dutton sets out his case for votes
Opposition Leader is proposing a return to Liberal orthodoxy.
Stark choice between two very different leaders
Peter Dutton is working hard to make the choice for voters a character test – two people who have taken different pathways to end up in the same place and see the future in very different ways.
Dutton’s pitch for power has critics going nuclear
Peter Dutton has vowed to deliver lower taxes while slashing red and green tape, accusing Anthony Albanese of expanding the size of government to ‘exert more power’ on behalf of activists and union bosses.
Dutton pledges to repair Australia’s ties with Israel
Peter Dutton will make calling Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu one of his first priorities if he wins this year’s federal election, as he launches his broad pre-poll vision for the nation.
Dutton outlines plans as election looms
Peter Dutton has made a major election pitch to voters, staking the Coalition’s return to government on housing, migration and economy.
PM deluding himself if he thinks he holds Trump cards
Dutton has street cred on issues that resonate with Trump. Such as keeping our borders secure and defeating the woke Goliath in the voice referendum.
Revealed: Bowen’s ‘nuclear maths’
Chris Bowen ‘weaponised’ the public service by instructing his department to produce ‘entirely flawed’ figures to allege Peter Dutton’s nuclear energy plan would see a 49 per cent electricity shortfall by 2035, the Coalition claims.
Dutton hits back at PM: I can work better with Trump
Peter Dutton says it is ‘comical’ to think Anthony Albanese can be a better global partner for Donald Trump than he would be, pointing to recent Australian votes against Israel in the UN and the PM’s past comments on the US president-elect.
Albanese’s bid to claim Trump card and China ace
The PM says he is better placed than Peter Dutton to forge a productive relationship with Donald Trump, arguing his close ties with Indo-Pacific leaders would be valuable to the US president-elect in an era of competition between major powers.
Dutton, Albanese spar over power prices, policy pain
Anthony Albanese says Peter Dutton would jeopardise Australia’s green manufacturing future, as the Opposition Leader lashed the PM for failing to admit he would not meet his vow to lower electricity prices by $275.
‘Clinging’: Dutton’s brutal call on elections
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has compared the PM’s proposal for longer terms for government to the Voice referendum, appearing to backflip on previous comments.
‘Limited:’ Ex-Lib dashes Dutton’s nuclear goal
A former high-profile Liberal minister effectively ruled out the likelihood of the Coalition commissioning a plant, stating chances are “limited” at best.
Prospect of Labor power share with Bandt a genuine risk
I fear we are destined to suffer three years of a minority Labor government. What horrors can the hardline Marxist Greens leader impose on this nation by 2028?
Albanese wide of the target? No, it’s just politics
The Prime Minister is opening the year by reviving his pre-2022 election pitch that he is a politician of conviction, as he puts a $873bn price tag on Peter Dutton’s nuclear policy.
PM opens poll year in mining states tour
Anthony Albanese is set to pull the starter’s gun on his on-the-ground campaigning ahead of an election due by May, spending the week in regional Queensland and WA.
Dutton ‘reignites history wars’
Education Minister Jason Clare said the curriculum the Opposition Leader was criticising was “designed, developed and signed off by the government he was a senior member of”.
Dutton’s counter-revolution to win back the battlers
Peter Dutton has set his sights on the basics, promising to restore the good economic management and conservative social policy approach of John Howard and Peter Costello.
Election 2025: Albanese and Dutton steeling for ‘future war’
The PM has declared the next election a ‘future war’ between Labor and the Coalition, as the Opposition Leader vows a return to Howard and Costello-era economics while calling for a rejection of identity politics in classrooms.
Victorian ALP secretary under fire over ‘gutter’ meme
The Coalition is demanding accountability after Victoria’s ALP state secretary Steve Staikos approved a gutter-level meme targeting Peter Dutton and his wife.
Premier expects ‘no repeat’ of ALP’s Dutton meme
Jacinta Allan says she is ‘sure’ the Victorian ALP will be reviewing its processes to ensure a social media attack on Peter and Kirilly Dutton ‘doesn’t happen again’.
Gutter politics and fearmongering Labor’s stock in trade
Labor’s attack on Peter Dutton’s wife was focused on personality politics and signals to voters that Labor lacks confidence in presenting and debating policy.
Libs warn 10,000 firms at risk of bankruptcy
The Coalition has forecast an extra 10,000 businesses will go under by the time the next parliament sits as economists say neither Anthony Albanese nor Peter Dutton have credible plans to address the nation’s economic challenges.
‘Embarrassed Labor’: Shorten blasts Dutton meme
Former Labor leader Bill Shorten has slammed the party over its social media attack against Peter Dutton and wife Kirilly.
Focus on policy, not personality
Anthony Albanese has done the right thing stepping in to pull rank on the Victorian Labor Party over its unseemly attack on Peter Dutton and his wife. It’s also time to focus on policy, not personality.
ALP’s personality politics not enough to win a second term
The Mediscare campaign is being recycled; it affected John Howard, Tony Abbott, Scott Morrison and now Peter Dutton.
Dutton’s big election pitch in NYE video
Peter Dutton has wished the nation a happy new year in an address reflecting on “the greatest gift” Australians can expect in 2025.
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