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.
Katina Curtis and Ellen Ransley
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
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
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.
MARK RILEY: Peter Dutton has resurrected a go-to sweetener for Liberal leaders in electoral trouble. It has been used many times and worked once. That was 24 years ago. Will it do the job this time?
Mark Riley
With Anthony Albanese reportedly planning to call an election on Friday, the Prime Minister is set to follow a well-worn path of his predecessors in going to the voters.
Dylan Caporn
Speculation is reaching fever pitch that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will visit the Governor-General tomorrow morning to call the election.
The Coalition has pledged it will repeal Labor’s $5-a-week tax cuts, saying it needs the money to fund its alternative offering of halving the fuel excise for a year.
The Albanese Government has taken a “particular bent” against the mining industry and his Budget cemented that by “forgetting” the sector, the head of the peak industry body has warned.
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton will halve the petrol excise for a year in his answer to Labor’s $5 a week tax cuts that the Coalition has voted against in the wake of the Budget.
Industry groups say Labor’s ban on non-compete clauses unveiled in the Federal Budget on Tuesday could harm small businesses and is a ‘heavy handed’ measure.
Caitlyn Rintoul
Every Australian worker will get two ‘top-up’ tax cuts in a Budget that Jim Chalmers wants to rebuild people’s living standards — and the Government’s prospects of re-election.
I don’t mean war as in the wars raging in Ukraine and Gaza, but it feels like we’re definitely under attack.
Reporters travelling on the election campaign better pack their puffer jackets because they’ll probably be seeing a lot of cold rooms.
Labor’s candidate Jarrad Goold has started his Federal campaign with a $4m pledge for the Mandurah rec centre.
Craig Duncan
Anthony Albanese and Jim Chalmers want to use the Budget to polish their economic credentials ahead of the election and showcase the progress Labor has made throughout its whole term in power.
Australians will get more help with the cost of living in next week’s Budget but the Government is looking for when it can ‘lean out’ and leave the task of driving economic growth to the private sector.
A Coalition government could slash spending growth on the nation’s disability insurance scheme to a quarter of current levels with the shadow finance minister saying there was more to be done to rein it in.
Jim Chalmers has to set up a Budget that no one thought we would have now and let his boss use it as a springboard into the election. No pressure.
Jim Chalmers will hand down a Budget on Tuesday night with its bottom line in the red, few surprises and a largely unaddressed structural deficit.
Nationals candidate for Bullwinkel Mia Davies has declared she is confident of her chances at winning Bullwinkel at her campaign launch on Saturday.
Oliver Lane
In the Trump age, how the next government, whether Labor or Coalition, will handle foreign affairs, defence and trade is shaping as crucially important.
Michelle Grattan
The Albanese Government will lift its housing support commitment to $33 billion in next Tuesday’s Budget as it seeks to make cost-of-living relief the heart of its election pitch.
Nicola Smith
Curtin MP Kate Chaney has declared she will not be beholden to lobby groups after being targeted by a fierce ultimatum by grassroots campaign Keep the Sheep.
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