While those families on the wrong end of the widening gap between rich and poor are forced to tighten their belts, politicians seem able to rustle up billions in an instant, when votes are on the line.
Jessica Page
The Federal election heads west on Monday with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese set to announce the hospital funding alongside Premier Roger Cook.
Katina Curtis
Labor’s Jason Clare and Liberal James Paterson have the job of debunking claims about their party’s policies, poking holes in the other side’s and serving as attack dogs for their leaders.
The opponents agreed on two things in their opening election pitches: Australia is the greatest place on Earth, and voters have a clear choice ahead.
Australians will go to the polls in five weeks but already the barbs are flying thick and fast.
Katina Curtis and Ellen Ransley
Speculation is reaching fever pitch that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will visit the Governor-General tomorrow morning to call the election.
Anthony Albanese says a major piece of the funding puzzle needed to build the Canning Vale sports complex will flow if Labor wins the looming Federal election.
Matt Zis
Both sides of politics have vowed to stare down the Trump Administration if it goes after Australia’s $18 billion medicine subsidy scheme
Ellen Ransley and Katina Curtis
Peter Dutton has walked back a proposal to hold a referendum on giving ministers the power to strip people’s citizenship but wants to include questions on anti-Semitism in the test to become an Australian.
Anthony Albanese joined WA Labor’s post-election celebrations in Perth on Friday night, thanking volunteers for a job well done.
Joe Spagnolo
Anthony Albanese has backed unions in the Pilbara as it’s revealed the resources sector has seen a dramatic increase in entry to sites since he was swept to power in May 2022.
Eagles fans probably didn’t find it funny but rest assured the Prime Minister was only joking, when he launched a bid to lure Harley Reid back to Victoria on FM radio on Friday.
Anthony Albanese will use his pre-election visit to Perth to unveil a $750 million grants scheme aimed at future-proofing Australia’s metals industry by transforming production.
The Prime Minister was in Perth to bask in the afterglow of Roger Cook’s election victory, five days after WA Labor won its third landslide in a row.
Jake Dietsch
KATINA CURTIS: Roger Cook’s victory shows voters in WA are open to an offering shaped around local jobs, manufacturing, better services and stable governance in times of global uncertainty.
The Prime Minister has ruled out an April 12 election that was widely expected to be called this weekend before tropical cyclone Alfred blew his plans off course.
Cyclone Alfred’s imminent landfall in Brisbane and northern NSW has forced the Prime Minister to change plans to head to WA on the eve of the State election.
The tropical cyclone heading for southeast Queensland and northern NSW could complicate the Prime Minister firing the starting gun on an April election this weekend.
Ellen Ransley
Anthony Albanese has dropped his biggest hint yet about the date of the Federal election while joking with reporters at a press conference in Sydney.
WA Premier Roger Cook has declared he has no issues with Anthony Albanese gatecrashing the WA election day on Saturday, should the PM decide to drop in.
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton claims Anthony Albanese will call an early election to avoid presenting a challenging Budget amid a cost-of-living crisis.
Caitlyn Rintoul
Anthony Albanese will unveil the policy today in a major election pitch that aims to lift bulk-billing rates to 90 per cent and save families $859 million a year on doctor’s fees.
The Prime Minister has left the door tantalisingly open to further tax cuts in the election as Cabinet’s razor gang considers what should go in Labor’s planned next budget.
KATINA CURTIS: The actions of our PM the day after an interest rate cut are the clearest proof yet that an election is just around the corner.
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