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Tony Abbott and Jan Norberger walk around a Wanneroo shopping centre. Riley Churchman

EXCLUSIVE PremiumFormer PM sure of Libs’ position in WA during key seat tour

Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott has insisted his presence in Western Australia will not hurt the party’s chances at winning back moderate votes lost in 2022 while campaigning in the electorate of Pearce

Oliver Lane

Anthony Albanese says Australia will chart its own path on its tariff negotiations with the US. Jason Edwards / NewsWire

newsPremium‘Zero’: PM’s huge call on Trump tariffs

Anthony Albanese says Australia is committed to negotiating with Donald Trump on tariffs, but rebuffed China’s offer to “hold hands” in fighting against the measures.

Nathan Schmidt and Jessica Wang

Australian Greens Senator Nick McKim has proposed a $30m spend to bring an Aldi to Tasmania. NewsWire / Martin Ollman

NEWSAldi urged to open in last Aussie state

The Greens have unveiled a $30m election pitch to lure discount retailers such as Aldi to Australia’s smallest state.

Duncan Evans

The ASX made some gains after the disaster of the Donald Trump trade tariffs.

MarketsCommentsPremiumShares storm higher after Trump pauses tariffs

Donald Trump’s abrupt backflip on tariffs has sent the Australian stock market soaring 4.5 per cent, but investors are buckling up for more wild swings on the escalating threat of a trade war with China.

Sean Smith

Peter Dutton speaks out against PM Anthony Albanese.

Federal PoliticsCommentsDutton slams Albo as ‘liar who can’t be trusted’

Opposition leader Peter Dutton has torn down Prime Minister Anthony Albanese as a ‘liar who can’t be trusted’ in his most blistering sledge of the campaign yet. 

Caitlyn Rintoul

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UPDATEDKey bills question left unanswered

Energy Minister Chris Bowen and coalition spokesman Ted O’Brien have held a testy debate on the key policy ahead of the May 3 election.

Blair Jackson

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LivePremiumChina’s offer to Australia on Trump trade war

The latest twist in Donald Trump’s tariffs war has led to China reaching out to Australia, in another distraction for the leaders on the campaign trail.

Jessica Wang and Nathan Schmidt

Energy Minister Chris Bowen says the Coalition’s nuclear plan is too expensive and will would take too long to build.

AustraliaCommentsAustralian news and politics recap: Tuesday April 10, 2025

RECAP: All the news and updates from Australia and around the world for April 10, 2025.

Kimberley Braddish

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PoliticsPremiumNew plan to lower Aussies’ power bills

A new plan to lower power bills for millions of Aussies who have been forgotten in a scheme to provide cheaper home batteries will be launched by the Greens.

Emma Kirk

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NewsPremiumPM’s cash splash for kids’ reef trips

Labor plans on making it easier for schoolchildren to visit one of Australia’s most popular tourist destinations with a multi-million dollar cash splash.

Nathan Schmidt

Business Council of Australia chief executive Bran Black.

Federal PoliticsCommentsBusiness begs MPs to end sugar hits and focus on growth

Businesses from local newsagents to mega mining firms are begging both sides of politics to commit to genuine economic changes to help them succeed and thrive, fearing the nation is stuck in a populist cycle.

Katina Curtis

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

trump tariffsCommentsPremiumAlbanese blames election for stalling talks with Trump

Anthony Albanese says caretaker conventions hinder tariff talks with Donald Trump as Australia’s second-largest export to the US — pharmaceuticals — is added to the US President’s target list. 

Katina Curtis

Jim Chalmers and Angus Taylor have clashed over Labor’s handling at the Sky News Treasurers’ Debate. Sky News

UPDATEDPremium‘DOGE-y sycophants’: Chalmers’ Trump sledge

Treasurer Jim Chalmers and shadow Angus Taylor held a feisty pre-election debate, but the spectre of US President Donald Trump loomed.

Jessica Wang and Nathan Schmidt

Liberal member for O'Connor Rick Wilson will try to hold on to his seat for the fifth time this year.

FEDERAL ELECTION 2025PremiumWilson has “more to offer” O’Connor after 12 years in job

In the first of our series on the Federal election candidates for O’Connor, the Albany Advertiser sits down with the Liberal incumbent.

Melissa Sheil

It is the first time a fully AI generated ad has been used in the Australian federal election, which depicts AI generated characters and scenes to promote the Liberal Party’s fuel excise cut. Supplied

PoliticsPremiumSurprising detail in new campaign video

The Liberal Party have released a new election campaign video, which includes one very surprising detail.

Emma Kirk

Anthony Albanese says Australia had secured the lowest tariff imposed by President Trump. Jason Edwards / NewsWire

newsPremiumPM’s secret weapon in Trump tariff fight

One man has emerged as a key figure in Anthony Albanese’s bid to lessen Australia’s exposure to new trade tariffs from the US, as Donald Trump sets his sights on pharmaceuticals.

Nathan Schmidt

Veterans’ Affairs Minister Matt Keogh and Labor candidate for Bullwinkel Trish Cook.

Federal PoliticsCommentsPremiumNo more live sheep export support on table from Labor

Federal Labor candidate for Bullwinkel Trish Cook says she has not had a conversation with farmers or the Government about rallying extra support for those affected by the live sheep export ban.

Danielle Le Messurier

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton was forced to hose down the claims on Tuesday, saying a government he led would not change the rules for who could serve in the ADF and back Mr Hastie’s views as matching his own.

Federal PoliticsCommentsPremiumDumped Liberal drags Hastie into fight over women in combat

Mr Hastie was forced to retreat on comments he made in 2018 when he said, ‘The fighting DNA of a close combat unit is best preserved when it’s exclusively male’.

Katina Curtis

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has refused to rule out a recession in Australia while Peter Dutton says there will be one ‘under Labor’.

Federal politicsCommentsPremiumAlbanese and Dutton spar over looming Australian recession

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has refused to rule out a recession in Australia while Peter Dutton says there will be one ‘under Labor’.

Katina Curtis and Ellen Ransley

Coalition energy spokesman Ted O’Brien, with Peter Dutton, says bills should start coming down within 12 months of the policy being legislated. NewsWire / John Gass

Federal PoliticsPremiumPM’s sledge after ‘shocker’ MAGA act

The Prime Minister has slammed ‘cookers’ running for election on May 3, after LNP volunteers handed out MAGA hats to constituents.

Jessica Wang and Nathan Schmidt

Treasurers debate: Jim Chalmers and Angus Taylor.

AustraliaCommentsChalmers, Taylor fire up in tetchy treasurers’ debate

RECAP: Treasurer Jim Chalmers and shadow treasurer Angus Taylor went toe to toe in a televised treasurers’ debate. Follow it as it happened here.

David Johns, Elisia Seeber and Max Corstorphan

The Greens currently hold four seats in the parliament. NewsWire/Tertius Pickard

UPDATEDPremium‘Play well’: Bandt’s power threat to Albo

Greens leader Adam Bandt says Anthony Albanese will have to ‘play well’ with others in a hung parliament, as he pushes his party’s hard-left wishlist.

Duncan Evans

Peter Dutton ended the debate with a warning on Labor’s economic credentials.

federal politicsCommentsPremiumAlbanese and Dutton trade blows over healthcare in debate

Nearly a quarter of voters watching Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton go head to head in the first election debate came away still undecided, reflecting a close election that is still anyone’s game.

Katina Curtis

Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, Senator Michaelia Cash and Shadow Environment Minister Jonno Duniam conduct a media conference to discuss environmental issues in Western Australia.

federal electionCommentsPremiumLiberals continue west coast attack on Nature Positive laws

Senior Liberal members have again taken to the West to reiterate their opposition to Nature Positive laws, which Anthony Albanese has pledged will return in some form if reelected.

Oliver Lane

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