Both major parties agree Australia must reach net-zero emissions. That’s why winding back the safeguard mechanism would be reckless policy.
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Peter Dutton says co-hosting the 2026 UN climate summit is ‘madness’. But Australia would be mad to miss out on the benefits, including investment in renewables.
The Liberal leader goes into this election presenting a particularly bleak worldview. Whether voters are in step with that view remains to be seen.
As the campaign officially begins both leaders run into problems selling their policies.
Young people are waiting more than three months for mental health care, and are struggling to cope while they wait.
With the next parliament, like this one, expected to have a large crossbench, present polling is pointing towards a minority government as a likely outcome.
For once-popular Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, the honeymoon is well and truly over.
The combative opposition leader has continued to focus on prising suburbanites away from Labor with a relentless campaign emphasising the rising cost-of-living.
Anthony Albanese must use his talented front bench to convince voters that inside his government there’s a better one waiting to break out.
As the election campaign finally begins, both major parties are making their case to the electorate. But will a spending arms race land with voters?
A gas reservation scheme could help to ease supply concerns in Australia, but expanding gas production is a folly.
The opposition leader has announced a range of spending cuts and new measures, with Australians expected to go to the polls on May 3.
The amount households could expect to save varies significantly according to where they are located – and how often they drive.
Many Western democracies have fixed terms on a federal level. But Australian governments have long resisted a change that would make them cede election power.
Opposition leader Peter Dutton will promise in his Thursday budget reply that a Coalition government would immediately halve the fuel excise on petrol and diesel.
We really need another budget post election. That’s because this one is about chasing votes – and could be quickly overtaken by Trump’s April 2 tariff announcement.
Peter Dutton says the CFMEU is the ‘modern-day mafia’. He wants US-style racketeering laws to target enterprises that engage in a pattern of criminal behaviour.
The coming federal election may show that Malcolm Fraser’s version of liberalism still has a place in Australia’s politics.
In the Trump age, how the next government, whether Labor or Coalition, will handle foreign affairs, defence and trade is shaping to be crucially important.
Opposition leader Peter Dutton says a Coalition government would push for approval of the huge project, which would release billions of tonnes of greenhouse gases.
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