Labor is putting pressure on Peter Dutton to reveal the opposition’s costings after showing savings of more than $6.4 billion in its costing compared to PEFO.
- Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
With long experience in parliament behind him, the former Queensland policeman is looking to take the top job. But he has his work cut out.
The fourth debate asked leaders to produce one-word responses to pictures of the prime minister’s Copacabana house, a three-eyed fish and Elon Musk.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is set to launch a 1800MEDICARE advice line from January next year.
And while Anzac Day brought a temporary truce in campaigning, the political leaders united to condemn neo-Nazi disruption at a dawn service in Melbourne.
With just a week to go in this election, cost of living and defence featured strongly in the campaign. But for many it was overshadowed by the death of Pope Francis.
Whatever the result on May 3, even Liberal insiders think they have run a very poor national campaign. Not just poor, but odd.
From handling town hall hecklers to swaying voters through podcasts and online algorithms, Australian election campaigns have transformed in recent generations.
A re-elected Albanese government will take the unprecedented step of buying or obtaining options over key critical minerals to protect Australia’s national interest.
Defence will again be in the spotlight with the Coalition promising an increase of defence spending of 3% by the end of the decade.
The third election debate saw again no real knock-outs, but as we draw closer to the election Dutton seems to be running out of time to land a serious blow.
The imbroglio over the reported Russian request to Indonesia to base planes in Papua initially tripped Peter Dutton, and now is dogging Anthony Albanese.
A Dutton government would introduce new laws to disrupt organised crime and spend $355 million on a strike team to fight the illicit drug trade.
This week’s episode looks at the third week of the election campaign, competing housing policies and the second leaders’ debate.
If Dutton is serious about his tax plan, this is the most radical proposal we’ve heard for the election, apart from the nuclear policy.
Both leaders were caught on difficult questioning, but overall neither strayed far from well-rehearsed lines.
A new Lowy poll shows Australians are losing faith with the American government but still value the alliance.
Joining us from Washington DC is Warwick McKibbin, an internationally renowned economic modeller from the ANU whose services are now in high demand.
On Tuesday afternoon, it seemed just possible the Russians might be sending their planes to a base very near us. But as quickly as it came, it disappeared.
Ten political observers nominate their favourite books about the hustings hustle.
Dutton was asked if he was willing to be the bank of mum and dad to his son who’s struggling to buy a house, and Albanese’s frosty encounter with Tanya Plibersek.
Both major parties were spending big at their campaign launches, with housing as the centrepiece.
Anthony Albanese will promise a $10 billion scheme to facilitate the building of up to 100,000 homes that would be earmarked for sale to first home buyers.
Peter Dutton at his party launch on Sunday will offer a “cost-of-living tax offset” of up to $1,200 to more than 10 million taxpayers.
It takes a bit for Labor not to preference the Greens but on Friday it was announced that in the Melbourne seat of Macnamara the ALP will run an open ticket.
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