25 h. ago Big Labor rally targets battleground seat of Griffith as Green cries copycat

Max Chandler-Mather scoffed as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese turned up in the Greens MP’s inner-city Brisbane seat.

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25 h. ago Federal election 2025 as it happened: Libs dump candidate over sexist comments; Dutton spruiks foreign student cuts; PM campaigns on $4000 home battery subsidy

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton are into the second week of their campaigns. Follow our rolling coverage here.

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33 h. ago Federal election 2025 LIVE updates: Dutton spruiks foreign student cuts to get young Australians into homes; Albanese campaigns on $4000 home battery subsidy

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton are into the second week of their campaigns. Follow our rolling coverage here.

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34 h. ago Federal election 2025 LIVE updates: Labor’s $4000 home battery subsidy; Liberal candidate named in settlement; ‘Dad vote’ crucial for Albanese

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton are into the second week of their campaigns. Follow our rolling coverage here.

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38 h. ago Women who endured horrific treatment in state care should be heard

The invasive practices Jenny Tuita experienced happened not just in Glebe, but are known to have occurred at Wilson Youth Hospital and the notorious Parramatta Girls’ Home.

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45 h. ago Labor to subsidise home batteries up to $4000 for households

The prime minister is doubling down on his clean energy ambitions in response to criticisms of soaring power bills.

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63 h. ago Labor primary vote exposed in key states despite recovery this year

An exclusive survey shows the Labor primary vote has fallen in NSW and Victoria from the level the party reached at the last election.

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3 d. ago Exaggerations from Albanese, Dutton lost in Trump’s tariff blitz

We take a look at the prime minister’s claim Dutton wanted to end bulk-billing and the Coalition’s claim groceries are up 30 per cent under Labor.

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3 d. ago Double trouble: Freo independent’s dual citizenship threatens to derail bid for federal seat

Kate Hulett went within a whisker of beating a state Labor minister in the WA election, but the highly anticipated sequel to the Freo gift shop owner’s political debut is in jeopardy.

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4 d. ago Dutton pledges $600 million for WA farm and mine roads, dodges IR law questions

The program would run for four years and would see upgrades including sealing, widening, building flood immunity and resilience upgrades.

Economics

4 d. ago Labor 9, Greens 3, Liberals 0: Poster tally in Dandenong’s Afghan Bazaar

Video shows the number of party posters in the windows of the Afghan Bazaar in Dandenong.

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5 d. ago Labor moves to punish Greens over Gaza stance – and it could play into Liberal hands

The inner-south seat of Macnamara takes in Melbourne’s Jewish community and is being targeted vigorously by the Greens.

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5 d. ago The leader most likely to lose their job after the federal election? Jacinta Allan

There will be no move against Allan while the campaign is on but if Labor does as badly in Victoria as the polls suggest, senior party figures have made it clear whom they will blame.

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5 d. ago Allan seeks to charm caucus as concerns mount over state Labor poll slump

Federal Labor MPs are struggling with how they should campaign in a state vital to Labor’s electoral fortunes when the state branch is so on the nose.

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5 d. ago ‘Not a declaration of war’: Arbib vows to take on AFL, NRL to keep Olympic talent for Brisbane 2032

Former Labor powerbroker takes up one of Australian sport’s most prized positions.

Sport

5 d. ago ‘The answer is no’: Albanese defends Allan’s absence from Labor campaign

“It’s a sign that the government’s in real trouble, and the wheels are falling off,” Peter Dutton said on Wednesday morning as he campaigned in the state.

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5 d. ago Jacinta Allan’s sinking popularity inflicts brand damage on Albanese’s election hopes

An exclusive survey has shown support for the Victorian Labor Party has collapsed to crisis levels that will have a huge influence on the federal political contest.

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5 d. ago Labor says Dutton’s public service cuts are from the ‘DOGE’ handbook. Here’s where jobs could go

Just 7000 new public service jobs have been created in Canberra under Labor, forcing the Coalition to cut 34,000 jobs from the rest of Australia or gut the capital.

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6 d. ago As it happened: RBA holds interest rates at 4.1 per cent; Dutton pledges $2.2b Suburban Rail Loop funding cut

Read all the headlines from day five of the 2025 federal election campaign on Tuesday, April 1.

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6 d. ago Federal election 2025 LIVE updates: RBA holds interest rates at 4.1 per cent; Dutton pledges $2.2b Suburban Rail Loop funding cut

Stay across all the headlines from day four of the 2025 federal election campaign. Follow live.

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