Albanese and Dutton are both hoping their big-ticket housing policies will win them votes on 3 May. But there's doubt that either plan will improve housing affordability in the long term.
Australian politics
The five big policies announced by Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton on Sunday, at a combined cost of $24 billion, may be too much for voters to consume. Advantage Labor.
A former senior Australian economic official is urging Australia to avoid 'tit for tat' negotiations with the Trump administration on trade.
The jobs market has continued to surprise economists and official forecasters over the past few years. Will this week's data shock them again?
Peter Dutton is hoping an 11th hour policy to allow first home buyers to negatively gear their own homes will help kickstart his faltering bid to become prime minister.
Repacholi is Parliament’s tallest MP, an ex-coal miner and a five-time Olympian. He's also become one of Labor's most effective — and unusual — communicators.
The Coalition is on the attack over energy, despite the many lingering questions over its gas 'reservation' policy.
Boele has kept up the pressure since a strong showing in 2022. Now, with long-serving MP Paul Fletcher retiring, she’s making a another bid to turn Bradfield teal.
Jim Chalmers and Angus Taylor faced each other in the ring last night. Both did plenty of manoeuvring, but playing it safe meant neither delivered a KO.
The first leaders debate of this campaign will not have done much to move the needle.
Peter Dutton has learned the hard way that while Australia often looks to the US for direction, they are still two very different countries.
The Coalition has softened its rhetoric on TikTok after months of urging Labor to follow the US push to force ByteDance to divest or face a ban.
Peter Dutton’s work-from-home policy never went to shadow cabinet, which left it riddled with risk. Now the Liberal Party is working out how to pick up the pieces.
The leaking of Peter Dutton’s announcement to Labor was yet another blow to the Coalition. But it’s the things they should have seen coming that are worrying party insiders the most.
The lobby group for film producers claims delays to Labor's quotas on streaming platforms have cost the sector $1 billion and thousands of jobs.
Markets may be the biggest story in macro this week, with the ASX headed for steep falls on Monday following a savage sell-off on Wall Street.
The CEO of Australia’s peak small business lobby says US President Donald Trump’s tariff regime is another reason to strengthen support for local enterprise.
Capital Brief spent the first week on Anthony Albanese’s campaign — where every selfie, stumble and stage-managed stop tells a bigger story.
Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton have presented two very different strategies to respond to Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs.
'Liberation Day' in the US, meaning tariffs for everyone else, shows once again that Donald Trump is the biggest external factor shaping Australia's election result.
Helen Haines was one of the architects of the National Anti Corruption Commission, but now has concerns about its "shaky start" and overall record.
Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton are set to square off in the first debate hosted by the public broadcaster in two election cycles.
