Federal Election 2025

Labor is on track for victory on Saturday but is unlikely to get the majority government Anthony Albanese is still aiming for.

EDITORIAL: The Opposition have been disappointing during this campaign, but when we vote on Saturday it’s a judgment on the past three years of compounding failure.

JACKSON HEWETT: In an election full of mudslinging over the country’s finances, it’s a shame that the clearest voice was the least heard.

Preferences could decide a swag of key election battles in WA, with a new opinion poll revealing Pauline Hanson’s One Nation could be the big winner as voters abandon both major parties.

BEN HARVEY: Behind the scenes of the secret Labor-teal preference deal so hush-hush even the candidate was in the dark.

The Opposition leader made his final pitch to Australians on Friday, saying only a Coalition government can help tackle cost-of-living and manage the economy.

Latika M Bourke has spent five weeks on the road with the Prime Minister and Opposition leader studying what shapes these two men.

Anthony Albanese was up before dawn as part of his frenetic blitz to visit three States and win over voters on the final day of campaigning. 

Labor is heading towards minority government in Saturday’s poll, but Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has predicted ‘surprises’ in a Federal election that is still too close to call. 

ELLEN RANSLEY: Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton are fighting for their lives as they embark on a final blitz. Neither believe the election is guaranteed, and are alive to the potential of a 2019-style shock.

CAMERON MILNER: Labor used to be the rebel with a cause. They had a reformist zeal and operated knowing that even if they weren’t going to be in power for long, they’d make it count. Not under Albanese.

For many Aussies, casting a ballot isn’t complete without indulging in a national delicacy: the democracy sausage. Here’s the easiest way to find a polling booth with a sausage sizzle tomorrow.

The Australian Islamic College of Sydney has been graffitied just hours before Australians head to voting booths, with Independent Senator Fatima Payman slamming the ‘disgraceful’ attack.

Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton’s partners have penned a letter explaining why their significant other should be voted in as Australia’s next Prime Minister. 

Tomorrow, millions of Australians will head to the voting booth for their say in the Australian Federal election, but bookies appear confident they already know who will win.