5 h. ago Victoria’s hot seats LIVE updates: Bruce is anything but a typical Liberal

Join us over the next five weeks for an in-depth look at the candidates, hot-button issues, and a breakdown of the policies and campaign promises in four key electorates.

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6 h. ago Federal election 2025 as it happened: Trump tariff fallout lingers as PM, Dutton continue campaigns; leaders clash on Port of Darwin Chinese ownership

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton launch into the second week of their campaign.

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9 h. ago Cameraman left bloodied after Dutton’s football kick goes astray

The ball went straight towards cameraman Ghaith Nadir who was filming the exchange, resulting in a bloodied forehead.

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9 h. ago Victoria’s hot seats LIVE updates: Goldstein rematch heats up in first week of campaign

Join us over the next five weeks for an in-depth look at the candidates, hot-button issues, and a breakdown of the policies and campaign promises in four key electorates.

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10 h. ago Dutton accidentally leaves cameraman’s forehead bloody with footy kick

Opposition leader Peter Dutton accidentally leaves cameraman’s forehead bloody with a footy kick.

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10 h. ago After $10.4 trillion wipeout, US expected to fall into recession ‘under weight of tariffs’

While the White House says Trump’s plan is working, some Republicans have joined Democrats to introduce a bill to terminate new tariffs unless the US Congress approves them.

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14 h. ago Federal election 2025 LIVE updates: Trump tariff fallout lingers as PM, Dutton continue campaigns; protester crashes Treasurer’s press conference

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton launch into the second week of their campaign.

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16 h. ago Trump extends lifeline for TikTok amid growing trade war with Beijing

The US president acknowledged the tariffs on China may complicate a potential deal, and said he did not want the app to “go dark” in the meantime.

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16 h. ago ‘He’s match fit’: Albanese takes out first week of race, but many voters probably didn’t notice

The prime minister has been disciplined while Dutton’s supporters are looking for him to improve.

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17 h. ago ‘To be Maori is to be political’: Marlon Williams returns to his ancestral tongue

The singer-songwriter’s new album wasn’t intended to be political, but it arrives at a tense moment for Aotearoa politics.

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17 h. ago Trump wants to close off America. If he succeeds, the global consequences will be catastrophic

Under Donald Trump, the country that created the global free market is bringing it to an end, not soberly but vengefully. The entire episode would be comically clownish if it weren’t so serious.

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17 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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23 h. ago China fires back at Trump with 34 per cent tariffs on American goods

Beijing’s response, its most comprehensive to date in the ratcheting tariff exchange, signals it has no intention of surrendering to the US president’s punitive trade measures.

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27 h. ago Chinese firm Landbridge set to be stripped of its controversial lease of the Port of Darwin

The Coalition will use its first major national security policy of the election campaign to announce that in government it would seize control of the port if required.

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27 h. ago As it happened: ASX falls sharply as fallout continues from Trump tariffs; worst trading day on Wall Street since 2020 as $2.4 trillion wiped

Read all the headlines from day eight of the 2025 federal election campaign on Friday, April 4.

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29 h. ago Petro Georgiou, the ‘conscience of the Liberal Party’, dies at 77

Petro Georgiou, who stood up to John Howard on asylum seekers, dies at 77.

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29 h. ago Trump’s beef attack rejected by top Australian biosecurity experts

American farmers are calling for their beef exports to be welcomed into Australia, but their imports are the problem.

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30 h. ago Zempilas unveils new shadow cabinet with a pitch to ‘deregulate’ and reform the public sector

The Liberals and Nationals have agreed to form a joint interim cabinet ahead of a raft of new upper house MPs entering parliament in May.

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30 h. ago Trump ousts national security boss after meeting with conspiracy theorist

A US official said Laura Loomer, a far-right activist and outside adviser to President Donald Trump, called for Timothy Haugh’s removal during an extraordinary meeting in the Oval Office.

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31 h. ago Public housing residents vow to resist eviction after lawsuit thrown out

The state government plans to pursue for legal costs the tenant who led the class action against it.

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