Politics

Labor’s Jason Clare and Liberal James Paterson have the job of debunking claims about their party’s policies, poking holes in the other side’s and serving as attack dogs for their leaders.

LATIKA M BOURKE: A top Labor strategist says Anthony Albanese has put a huge number of seats ‘at risk’ with an early campaign move, warning voters have ‘dumped’ the PM and primary support is haemorrhaging.

US President Donald Trump’s promised ‘liberation day’ coincides with an RBA rate call and Australian mortgage holders hoping to be freed from high interest rates might have to wait a while longer.

Anthony Albanese stopped in the Canberra suburb of Downer on Sunday to plug his crackdown on supermarkets ‘taking the piss’ with consumers, and promising to outlaw price-gouging.

A nasty campaign targeting Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke in his Sydney electorate has escalated after it was revealed he had been threatened in a video message. 

France says it's unacceptable that French firms with US government contracts have been ordered to comply with the US ban on diversity and inclusion policies.

Independent MP Andrew Gee appeared to thank himself in an embarassing social media blunder on a post slamming his former party.

Supermarket loyalty programs and price gouging face even more scrutiny with Labor flagging a fresh crackdown on the nation’s grocery giants if it is re-elected in May.

Security is expected to be ramped up around Anthony Albanese, Peter Dutton and other senior politicians at events after extremist gatecrashers disrupted the first day of campaigning.

At least one person is dead after a new wave of suspected US air strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen, as America intensifies its attack on the rebels.

Mr Albanese made the bold move of taking his fight straight to an urgent care centre in Peter Dutton’s Brisbane seat of Dickson.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese jetted into Bundaberg late Saturday morning to sell his second hot-button election issue of the day - ‘Buy Australian.’

Peter Dutton has refused to put a dollar figure on how much his centrepiece gas policy will reduce power bills by, on a day dogged by protest interruptions. 

Anthony Albanese launched an immediate offensive on the first full day of his re-election campaign, taking the fight straight to Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s marginal seat of Dickson.