In the Trump age, how the next government, whether Labor or Coalition, will handle foreign affairs, defence and trade is shaping as crucially important.
Michelle Grattan
Both sides of politics have vowed to stare down the Trump Administration if it goes after Australia’s $18 billion medicine subsidy scheme
Ellen Ransley and Katina Curtis
Peter Dutton has walked back a proposal to hold a referendum on giving ministers the power to strip people’s citizenship but wants to include questions on anti-Semitism in the test to become an Australian.
Katina Curtis
Peter Dutton has vowed to end the stalemate over gas off WA’s North West coast within 30 days, if he becomes Prime Minister.
Jessica Page
Peter Dutton has hit the campaign trail in Perth ahead of a looming Federal election, but was reluctant to weigh in on a potential Liberal leadership battle in WA in the wake of the State poll.
Police get up before dawn and go to bed long after the rest of us. They deserve better than the politicking we have seen from Mr Dutton and his inexperienced and immature national security spokesperson.
Mark Dreyfus
KATINA CURTIS: Roger Cook’s victory shows voters in WA are open to an offering shaped around local jobs, manufacturing, better services and stable governance in times of global uncertainty.
Opposition Leader Dutton argued that Roger Cook’s ability to maintain his party’s popularity was by following in the footsteps of predecessor Mark McGowan and locking out the east coast.
Caitlyn Rintoul and Katina Curtis
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has stridently defended his decades of multimillion-dollar property dealings while accusing the Prime Minister of slinging mud.
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton claims Anthony Albanese will call an early election to avoid presenting a challenging Budget amid a cost-of-living crisis.
Caitlyn Rintoul
Treasurer Jim Chalmers will not be organising a buck’s night ahead of the coming nuptials of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Jodie Haydon.
Albanese and Labor have clearly underestimated Dutton and the Coalition to date, purely because they thought history would repeat.
The man now favoured to become Australia’s next Prime Minister was pressed on how he would handle the new president after Mr Trump slapped 25 per cent tariffs on all aluminium and steel imports.
Jake Dietsch
The Coalition has moved swiftly to neutralise Labor’s latest electoral offering, backing a $573 million women’s health package within hours of its announcement.
The first day of the last days of Parliament followed a well-worn template both in format and substance as leaders attacked each other over the cost of living.
It’s not that Dutton has changed his views on China. Rather, he’s camouflaged them with a softer tone, and in what he chooses to emphasise.
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has accused the Prime Minister of playing a ‘two-card trick’ over the so-called Nature Positive laws, despite warnings the bill is a ‘threat to jobs’.
Jessica Page and Ellen Ransley
Mr Albanese had previously drawn a cartoon image of Mr Dutton, which the hosts presented to the Opposition Leader.
Jonathon Nolan
Peter Dutton has taken a cheeky swipe at Anthony Albanese during an FM radio challenge. wishing him a ‘happy retirement’.
Dylan Caporn
Peter Dutton has come under fire for not attending the national Australia Day ceremony in Canberra after weeks of accusing Anthony Albanese of not showing the day enough respect.
Joseph Olbrycht-Palmer
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton believes the political ghosts that haunted the Federal Liberals in WA three years ago are gone, and voters are prepared to back him to lead the country.
Joe Spagnolo
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton says the Albanese Government’s ‘left-wing agenda’ is dividing the nation, and Australia Day ‘is not a day to be ashamed of’.
Liberal and Labor are both appealing to our worst selves, on the basis that if they convince us the other side is bad, perhaps we’ll opt to pick the lesser of two evils.
Peter Dutton has taken a page from Donald Trump’s playbook, launching the Coalition’s election year with a pitch to ‘pessimistic’ Australians to get the country ‘back on track’.
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