Lib’s fuel excise cut falls into shallow ‘me too’ strategy
Tweedledum’s $14 a week or Tweedledee’s $10 a week. Take your pick. But we deserve better than this.
Peter Dutton
Path to government: huge task Coalition faces to win
Peter Dutton’s challenge to become PM in the 48th parliament is monumental, requiring a net gain of 22 seats.
Dutton has a gas-fired plan to win back government
Peter Dutton must turn his ideological convictions into credible policies. Top of the list must be better detail on energy, tax reform and defence.
Budget sugar hits
So, Peter Dutton does love temporary sugar hits after all. For the LNP, which always proclaims to be the party of lower taxes, now confined to the dustbin of history!
Power price poll: Dutton vows to reserve gas for domestic use
Peter Dutton used his budget reply to attack Labor and Anthony Albanese on the economy, defence and energy.
Both camps muzzle their MPs
Labor and Coalition MPs have been banned from speaking to the media during the election campaign unless they receive approval and talking points from party officials.
This is now a win at any cost, bare-knuckled brawl
Peter Dutton is attempting to force Anthony Albanese to fight on his terms and on his turf – the outer metropolitan suburbs.
Time for one last salvo of cheers, jeers, insults and cliches
It wasn’t until the very last words of Anthony Albanese at the very end of parliamentary question time that it became absolutely clear that Thursday’s sitting was the last of the first term of the Labor government.
Politics v economics: Why Dutton is cutting fuel excise
The danger is these relief measures can get out of hand, blowing up the budget and being counter-productive.
More F-35s ‘very welcome’: RAAF boss
One of the air force’s most senior commanders has approved of Peter Dutton’s pledge to buy another squadron of F-35 joint strike fighters, while dismissing rumours of a US ‘kill switch’.
Dutton to cut 40,000 jobs in DOGE-style move
Peter Dutton’s Elon Musk-style efficiency pledge will put thousands of Australian public servants in the Coalition’s firing line.
Has Peter Dutton delivered the ‘speech of his life’ without actually delivering it?
Anthony Albanese’s declaration the election will be called ‘soon’ – and the expectation that soon will be Friday for May 3 – risks looking like a vote of no confidence in Jim Chalmers’ budget and panic at Peter Dutton’s reply.
Dutton unveils gas plan to slash energy prices
Peter Dutton will impose an east coast gas reservation regime to secure up to 20 per cent of demand and drive-down energy prices, amid election-eve warnings that Australia’s biggest states will face gas shortfalls by July.
Dutton must show brave leadership to win power
My advice to Peter Dutton, given what he’s up against, is not to die wondering. Australians are desperate for brave leadership. Australians are desperate for competent government.
Cheap petrol tank versus Jim’s cuppa: Dutton to halve fuel excise
Peter Dutton will attempt to counter Labor’s marginal tax cuts by committing to halving fuel excise rates in a move the Coalition believe will convince voters on greater cost-of-living relief.
Hip-pocket politics: return of that 1970s show
How long do we roam aimlessly around the wilderness before the country gets back to valuing personal responsibility and aspiration above government hand-outs? We are about to find out.
Dutton unleashes inner Howard with excise cut
The Opposition Leader’s answer to Jim Chalmers’ $5-a-week tax cuts for 2026 will grab even more attention than Labor’s budget tax surprise and cost less than half as much.
Labor migrant numbers ‘too rosy’
Jim Chalmers has accused Peter Dutton of seeking to ‘dial up division’ over immigration, as an expert warns Labor’s net migration forecasts is ‘too optimistic’.
Seven strategies for Dutton to secure election victory
Here are seven strategies Peter Dutton should adapt to win the upcoming federal election, and readers can score his upcoming budget reply and later statements against these benchmarks.
‘Shameful’: Treasurer blames Senate for missing budget relief for small business
As Labor’s tax cuts pass their first hurdle in the lower house, Jim Chalmers says Senate ‘shenanigans’ are holding up an extension of the instant asset write-off, which wasn’t in the budget.
All eyes on Dutton after short-term election budget
Peter Dutton needs to come out swinging against this budget and give the voters a choice between policies designed for Australia to climb out of its financial hole or continue to dig the hole deeper.
‘No one saw this coming’: Our experts give their verdicts
Labor has notched three immediate victories and created a big challenge for Peter Dutton — but productivity, debt and spending are the elephants in the room.
Cost of saving Albo: tax cut war after Jim’s ‘cuppa coffee’ relief
Jim Chalmers has set up a tax fight with Peter Dutton weeks out from the May election after unveiling $17.1bn in modest relief, which was rejected by the Coalition as a ‘cruel hoax’.
Workplaces foster productivity
Anthony Albanese, who wants working from home to be an election issue, is playing to his base.
‘Hello everyone except Peter Dutton’: Labor welcomes influencers into budget lock-up
The Albanese government has invited social media influencers to the budget lock-up for the first time, including one who offers advice on ‘ways to talk with a Dutton supporter.’
Federal Budget 2025: Coalition to oppose Labor’s tax cuts
The federal opposition has declared Labor’s $17bn of tax cuts are ‘for the next five weeks, not the next five years’, signalling it will oppose them.
‘Should not have happened’: Teal couple apologises for Lib sign removal
Kooyong MP Monique Ryan and her husband Peter Jordan have ‘unreservedly’ apologised after Jordan was filmed in a heated row after removing an election sign for Liberal candidate Amelia Hamer | VIDEO
Newspoll: Women losing faith in both Albanese and Dutton
Primary vote support for Labor among women dropped below 30 per cent, with both Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton facing a crisis of confidence among female voters as they shift support to the Greens.
Both the major parties have a ‘women problem’
Not only are female voters unhappy with the federal government, they are deeply unimpressed with both Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton as leaders.
Honesty the best policy for fixing dire economic outlook
While Jim Chalmers will persist with complete denial and reckless spending in Tuesday’s budget, Peter Dutton has the chance to respond with bold policies. These are the moves he should make.
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