With the economy dominating this election campaign, Labor insiders say they can shake voters’ traditional perceptions of the Coalition as the stronger steward.
Independent campaigns were structured around an April 12 election – and the decision to go later has added roughly $250,000 to required spending in each seat.
The prime minister has kicked off a long-awaited official campaign that most believe will deliver a hung parliament, as the independents work to harness growing voter disaffection with the major parties.
Election polling seen by The Saturday Paper shows teal independents adding to their tally of seats in demographics that cut harder into the Coalition’s heartland.
At the same time as he positions himself as fighting against corporate Australia, Peter Dutton has proved an effective fundraiser and popular guest of billionaire donors.
An internal fight over trans rights and free speech has seen the Greens suspend one of its founders, in a process that took almost two years and could not be appealed.
Climate Change Authority head Matt Kean joins critics of the Coalition’s energy policy, with a scathing rebuke to the ‘deliberately obstructionist’ forces slowing Australia’s progress on climate.
More than half a million Gen Zs will vote for the first time in this election, boosting a young demographic that is more powerful than ever and a serious threat to the major parties.
Australia’s largest private arms supplier, Robert Nioa, has become a regular of Donald Trump’s inner circle – and a confidant of Peter Dutton. He is also Bob Katter’s son-in-law.
As disease ravages Tasmanian salmon farms, killing thousands of tonnes of fish and threatening other species, the government’s pledge to protect both the industry and the endangered Maugean skate is being called pork-barrelling.
