Voter satisfaction with Anthony Albanese has hit a new low, with the Prime Minister’s net approval slipping into negative double digits for the first time this term.
Dylan Caporn
Anthony Albanese’s goal for a new year reset has flopped, with Newspoll showing Labor’s vote slipping, and a narrowing gap with Peter Dutton’s Liberals.
A Canberra parlour game in the weeks before elections is guessing the make-up of the Lower House once the voters have had their say — and it has started early with a hung parliament a very real possibility.
Katina Curtis
If history had taken a different turn, Australia might now not be debating nuclear power but have had it up and running for decades.
Michelle Grattan
It will be illegal to post photos and videos of crimes on social media under a Coalition Government as Peter Dutton pledges to crack down on youth violence and criminal activity.
Kimberley Caines
About six retiring coal-fired power stations will be picked to host nuclear reactors under the Coalition’s energy plan, Liberal leader Peter Dutton has confirmed.
Dan Jervis-Bardy
Don’t worry about being tripped up in a presser; in 2024 political life is one big ‘gotcha’ moment so it’s tempting for politicians to take paths of least resistance. Peter Dutton isn’t doing that.
Ben Harvey
Peter Dutton needs a big bang policy to win attention ahead of the next election, and he thinks he has found it in nuclear. But is it a policy that will instead go bang in his face?
Peter Dutton will not ask renegade colleague Ian Goodenough to leave the party despite the Moore MP using parliamentary privilege to smear the reputations of Liberal members in his own electorate.
Josh Zimmerman
Peter Dutton has vowed not to be ‘Labor-lite’ and that Australians will have a ‘clear choice at the polls’ as the Coalition prepares to unveil the policies it will take to the next election.
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton says tackling energy prices is the best way to jumpstart productivity as he prepares to release his party’s policy for nuclear power stations across the country.
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has announced a minor shake-up to his frontbench — promoting Queensland MP Luke Howarth to shadow assistant treasurer to replace Stuart Robert nearly a year after his resignation.
Peter Dutton might want to get a texta ready for this week’s visit to WA - with Labor demanding a cast iron pledge from the Liberal leader on GST.
Joe Spagnolo
The Parliament is acting like a giant funnel this week in a manner that has left many observers scratching their heads.
Mark Riley
The battle for the federal seat of Dunkley is ‘evenly balanced’ as Labor and the Liberals throw the kitchen sink at a contest that could have major implications for Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton.
Katina Curtis and Dan Jervis-Bardy
Peter Dutton’s Liberals have taken a lead over the Albanese Government for the first time in a major opinion poll, as another survey shows signs of Labor’s vote falling further.
In just eight days, the voters of Dunkley will go to a by-election that will act as a litmus test for the Albanese Government.
Premier Roger Cook says Peter Dutton is the ‘biggest threat’ to WA’s GST, citing former Liberal prime ministers and other senior WA Liberals who said he was opposed to the deal.
Jake Dietsch
Roger Cook has urged the Federal Government to boost monitoring of the northwest coastline and protect Australia not only from people smuggling boats but also illegal fishers and biosecurity hazards.
The stakes are usually pretty high on some level or other when you make a bet on national TV.
Bill Shorten
The Government will be drawn into a battle over tax concessions for property investors after the Greens decided to make it a condition of their support for the next tranche of housing affordability measures.
Peter Dutton has vowed the Coalition will repeal the right to disconnect if it wins the next election but won’t reveal what the rest of its industrial relations agenda might entail.
Former Labor cabinet minister Joel Fitzgibbon was renowned for his straight talking. It frequently got him into trouble. Often with his own side.
Peter Dutton has made it clear the Coalition will step up the attack on trust and Labor’s broken promises, even as his party agreed to wave through the tax cuts package.
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