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.
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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.
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.
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.
Coalition demands daily Treasury briefings
Shadow treasurer Angus Taylor has written to Treasury to demand daily briefings during the election campaign, as the Trump tariffs hit the economy.
Can Albo keep his good start going?
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.
Newspoll: Labor narrowly extends its lead after first week
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.
Inside Dutton’s chaotic first week
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.
Albo on Trump, Dutton and ‘green and gold’
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has rallied the party faithful in the election fight against the influence of two men: Peter Dutton and Donald Trump.
Albanese’s cheap media shot turns into a strategic error
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.
Dutton eyes fight with uni bosses
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.
‘Always stand by Israel’: Liberal Wentworth candidate’s pitch to Jewish voters
Liberal candidate for Wentworth Ro Knox has made a pledge to the Jewish community that she “will always stand by Israel”, taking aim at Wentworth MP Allegra Spender.
‘Regime of cruelty’: Albo’s war cry to party
The Prime Minister is rallying the Labor faithful in Brisbane as the Opposition Leader hits seats in Melbourne and Tassie on day 9 of the election campaign.
PM’s $2.3bn battery plan ‘confirmation energy prices will rise’: Coalition
Peter Dutton says Labor’s home battery proposal, which will see taxpayers contribute $4000 for installations, will take money from lower-income households to benefit high-income earners.
Dutton’s vow after footy blunder
Peter Dutton has promised he will do two things after an attempt to kick a football on the campaign trail went horribly wrong.
PM in race with Dutton over Port Darwin, pledges $100m flood help
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Albo tight-lipped on Darwin Port plan
The Prime Minister has accused Peter Dutton of “talking on the run” when he promised to secure new owners for the key port within six months.
Tariff turmoil enters the federal election contest
Peter Dutton must not be distracted from the cost-of-living challenge.
This battler seat buried the Yes campaign. Could it witness the birth of a Dutton government?
If Tony Abbott is right, and the residents of Adelaide’s gritty north stump for Peter Dutton, the battle will not only be over for the Coalition. The war also will have been won.
China’s northern expulsion from key port of Darwin
Peter Dutton will immediately boot out a Chinese-owned company from the strategic Port of Darwin if he wins the May 3 election and appoint an Australian operator, or take over the lease interest using acquisition powers.
Coalition fine-tunes pledge on gas price cut
The Coalition has released new details of its plan to cut gas prices on the east coast. Full modelling has yet to be released, however.
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