Updates

CAITLYN RINTOUL: Peter Dutton was stern and composed in the first leaders’ debate, but he appeared to fall short of convincing voters in the room that the Coalition is the best economic manager.

An elected Coalition government would create a $1 billion gas war chest to fast-track projects aimed at slashing household energy bills, with Peter Dutton unveiling plans to cut prices by 3 per cent.

Opposition leader Peter Dutton has taken the stage at the first Federal election leaders debate, after only moments earlier learning his father, Bruce, had suffered a heart attack. 

NSW Labor Premier Chris Minns has doubled down on forcing public servants to work in the office, putting him at odds with Anthony Albanese who is continuing to wedge Peter Dutton over the issue. 

An emotional Prime Minister has recalled a near-death mental health experience of someone in his life, as he announced Labor’s $1bn pledge to boost access to treatment across the country. 

Peter Dutton has seized on the current global uncertainty to claim Labor will lead Australia into recession if re-elected, after Prime Minister Anthony Albanese failed to rule out the worst-case scenario. 

The PM and Peter Dutton will go head-to-head in the first debate of the election campaign amid an ASX bloodbath, and fallout from the Coalition’s dumped WFH policy.

New modelling has shown a small change to lending rules would save first homebuyers who don’t have access to family help up to $2500 a year.

Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton will be forced out of their echo chambers and into the debating chamber when they go head-to-head this evening.

CAMERON MILNER: The Liberals so far have failed to give a cogent reason to voters that they have any better plan than Albanese for a way back to prosperity and low inflation for our nation.

ISABELLE MULLEN: As China ramps up its activities in our region, it has become crystal clear that the 2015 decision to flog off the Darwin Port was a massive mistake.

NICOLA SMITH: An Election campaign is not the time to be making up consequential policies on the hoof, with the latest slammed as a ‘vote grab’ to which neither side is immune.

LATIKA M BOURKE: The Coalition leader has failed to counter-punch the systematic scare campaigns that the Labor Party’s machine has hurled his way.

ELLEN RANSLEY: At a noisy train station at the centre of a political fight, the premier and the PM tried to dodge questions about one of Labor’s biggest barriers in Victoria: her popularity. 

Peter Dutton has sought to put cost-of-living pressures back on the campaign agenda, hitching a ride in a fuel truck after being forced to ditch a key policy.