Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has launched his official election pitch, promising Australians a better future under a Coalition Government and vowing to be the ‘prime minister for home affordability’.
Ellen Ransley
In the minutes after Anthony Albanese announced the May 3 Federal election, the Liberal Party dropped the first election ad, where Peter Dutton called on the nation to ‘get our country back on track’.
Max Corstorphan
Australians will go to the polls in five weeks, on May 3 and both sides are saying their choice has never been clearer.
Katina Curtis and Ellen Ransley
LIVE UPDATES: Peter Dutton has made his case to Australians on why he should be the country’s next Prime Minister, launching a brutal attack on Anthony Albanese and Labor.
The election has been called and the countdown is on. Here are the 20 seats across the country that will be crucial in deciding who will be our next Prime Minister.
Peter Dutton has kicked off his election campaign with scalding criticism of Anthony Albanese as “too weak” to lead the country.
Ria Pandey and Jessica Wang
With cost-of-living shaping to be the dominant election issue, here’s what the major parties are promising to help ease your budget bottom line.
Jessica Wang
On Friday, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called an election following a well-worn path of his predecessors in going to the voters. These are the fascinating traditions playing out today.
Dylan Caporn
The starting gun for the 2025 Federal Election has finally been fired, sparking a crucial seven-day deadline every Australian should know about.
Hannah Moore
Australians will head to the polls in just a few weeks to vote in the next parliament of Australia. Here’s what you need to know.
A top mining lobbyist has sounded the alarm on a “Hunger Games” scenario where WA projects are pitted against each other if a Labor-Greens-Teals minority forms Government.
Simone Grogan and Adrian Rauso
Tax cuts, the promised bright light at the end of the Albanese second-term tunnel, is a sexy, snackable blurb that surely even the most blase voter can get around.
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AFP commissioner Reece Kershaw warned politicians to think carefully about their plans during the campaign as he shared ‘sobering information’ about what they collectively had been facing.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is expected to use post-budget momentum to call an election as soon as today for a May 3 poll, in what is expected to be a cost-of-living-focused campaign.
Caitlyn Rintoul and Katina Curtis
A fall in overseas arrivals into Australia could put further pressures on struggling businesses, an economist has warned.
Cameron Micallef
Peter Dutton has used a key pre-election speech to detail how he will reduce energy bills and divert gas into Australia’s energy grid, but rules out tax cuts.
With Prime Minister Anthony Albanese poised to call an election as soon as Friday, Mr Dutton said repeatedly the choice ahead of Australians could not be clearer.
Katina Curtis
A lobby group representing Australia’s biggest and most influential resources operators has warned there will be explorers brandishing “brick bats” if the Federal Government doesn’t cough up tax incentives.
Simone Grogan
BHP’s iron ore boss has lauded the Cook Government but suggested its federal counterpart is putting WA’s mining industry at risk of being overtaken by the likes of Argentina, Canada and Chile.
Adrian Rauso
The AFP boss says the number of threats against politicians has nearly doubled in the past four years.
The Australian Electoral Commission has examined what went wrong in the WA State election when some booths ran out of ballot papers and others had extremely long queues, and promises it will do better.
Eligible Aussie travellers will benefit from fast-tracked travel through US airports via a new government program.
Zoe De Koning
Anthony Albanese’s own Department has been forced to apologise over an errant social media post which put the Federal Government into caretaker mode for four minutes.
RECAP: Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has outlined his election pitch to the people of Australia in his Budget reply speech. Follow it live here.
Elisia Seeber, David Johns, Peta Rasdien and Max Corstorphan
