Federal election

With Labor turning around its fortunes since the start of this year, the Coalition is shifting resources in an attempt to get back in the race.

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.

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.

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.

Market volatility may have more ramifications for politics than economics — in the short run, at least.

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 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.

The Coalition’s nuclear-energy plans have seen international firms in Australia face a flurry of client queries and lean on in-house experts overseas.

'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.

Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton are set to square off in the first debate hosted by the public broadcaster in two election cycles.

Peter Dutton’s campaign is chaotic. The question is whether there is a method to the madness.

The world is anxiously awaiting the details of Donald Trump's 'Liberation Day' tariffs, and RBA governor Michele Bullock and former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull are no exceptions.

As Peter Dutton moves his focus to infrastructure with an announcement in Melbourne today, jettisoning his hard-man image continues to be a difficult task.

The election campaign has kicked off, and the first stops Anthony Albanese made weren't in battleground seats but in Coalition territory and safe Labor ground.