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Polling stations have opened across eastern Australia as voters decide whether Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s conservative government will defy odds and rule for a fourth three-year term

The Australian Labor Party has returned to power after nine years in opposition, but may yet govern in minority with independents and the Greens.

Today we are running two longer articles looking at the men who are vying to be the next Australian prime minister. You can read Paul Strangio’s profile of Anthony Albanese here.

Retired Australian cricketer Andrew Symonds has been killed in a car crash in Far North Queensland, prompting widespread tributes for a 'great' of the game.

A Newspoll, conducted May 10-13 from a sample of 1,532, gave Labor a 54-46 lead, unchanged from the previous week’s Newspoll. Primary votes were 38% Labor (down one), 35% Coalition (steady), 11% Greens (steady), 6% One Nation (up one), 3% UAP (down one) and 7% all Others (up one).

A Labor government will be happy to work with state premiers on hospital funding but will not make promises it cannot keep, leader Anthony Albanese says.

Private healthcare company Aspen Medical was given more than $1 billion in government PPE contracts, despite having no experience in large-scale procurement, a Four Corners investigation reveals.

The broadsheet’s new site, the Oz, went live on Wednesday, in a largely derided grab at a market that’s almost impossible to win over

Labor has maintained unchanged its solid two-party leads in both Newspoll and the Australian Financial Review’s Ipsos poll.