Politics

A riff on a social media is targeting younger, online voters who might not have made up their mind about which way to go on May 3.

The president of Timor Leste has said his country would be willing to join Chinese-led military exercises in the latest signpost of the growing great power competition on Australia’s doorstep. 

Good Friday is a time when election campaigns are paused – but Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton nonetheless managed to find a way to front the cameras.

As Australians priced out of the housing market wait for answers, politicians on both sides played the blame game in a fiery television debate.

Russia's President Vladimir Putin said previously that Afghanistan's Taliban was now an ally in fighting terrorism.

President Volodymyr Zelensky says Ukraine and the US are on the verge of signing a memorandum of intent on the minerals deal, key to ongoing relations.

Peter Dutton's Coalition is in need of a ‘historic turnaround’ to win the election as its primary vote plumbs new depths, YouGov polling shows.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell says he has no intention of leaving his post before his tenure is up in May 2026 after Donald Trump said he wants him ‘out of there’.

In this show, Ben Harvey explains how Donald Trump broke economics, with his trade war upending the finance world’s most fundamental doctrine and booby-trapping Australia’s property market.

ELLEN RANSLEY: If the Opposition Leader is to win the 2025 election he needs to negotiate two long weekends, pre-poll voting and concerns he has left his big policy announcements too late.

CAITLYN RINTOUL: Anthony Albanese heads into the Easter long weekend buoyed by improving poll numbers and growing campaign confidence — but will a week of national downtime knock his momentum?

South Australia’s Housing policy is Labor’s affordability solution, but first homebuyers will be disappointed.

LATIKA M BOURKE: Relaxed and smiling, Albanese is having fun, and after shadowing him on the campaign trail he looks and acts like a man on his way to victory.

EDITORIAL: The Easter break — which will be followed next week by another long weekend for Anzac Day — can’t come soon enough for Peter Dutton. 

MARK RILEY: Peter Dutton’s election pitch is still off-key and he is running out of time to convince voters he deserves the top job.