Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News from Labor

Under-threat regional papers offered $10m lifeline

Regional newspapers sounding the alarm over a devastating price hike have been offered a lifeline.

Newcastle Herald

Labor promises cash payments to entice high achievers to study teaching

Labor promises to pay students who get an ATAR of 80 or over up to $12,000 a year if they decide to study an education degree, as part of its plan to boost teaching standards and reduce teacher shortages.

ABC News

Sharma warns of teal threat to Liberals

Independent candidate Allegra Spender says she is willing to work with both sides of politics as she vies to oust Wentworth's Liberal MP Dave Sharma.

AAP

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Rivals face off in second leaders’ debate – as it happened

This blog is now closed

The Guardian - AU

Greens to call for young voter 'uprising'

Greens Leader Adam Bandt says young people have to fight for their future as the party turns to first-time voters to strengthen their foothold in Canberra.

AAP

Prime Minister Scott Morrison says schools not expelling gay students, doubles down on religious discrimination bill

Prime Minister Scott Morrison says gay students are not being expelled from religious schools, doubling down on re-introducing the failed religious discrimination bill without extra protections for gay and transgender students.

ABC News

Scott Morrison defends delaying protections for LGBTQ students as party tensions resurface

Liberal backbench MP Katie Allen reiterates protecting gay and trans students is ‘not negotiable’

The Guardian - AU

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Albanese defends costings release delay

Anthony Albanese has defended the economic and policy choices Labor is taking to the election during a tour of John Howard's old seat of Bennelong.

AAP

LNP candidate in Queensland referred to federal police for allegedly falsifying address

AEC has also referred reports of hundreds of fake signs falsely suggesting independents were members of the Greens to the Electoral Integrity Assurance Taskforce

The Guardian - AU

Labor will announce new measures to close gender pay gap in election campaign’s final fortnight

Tanya Plibersek says party would look at introducing superannnuation on paid parental leave ‘when we can afford to’

The Guardian - AU

Lobby group tells parties to keep the money flowing

The Committee for the Hunter says some campaign commitments have hit the mark, but it wants movement on more long-overdue projects and programs.

Newcastle Herald

Albanese says Labor will match Coalition’s IVF pledge ahead of second leaders’ debate – as it happened

This blog is now closed

The Guardian - AU

Biloela's Tamil family inspires art exhibition as town's residents take views to the ballot box

It's now the second election where the fate of the Tamil asylum-seeking family is debated as part of the campaign. But what does it all mean for locals in Biloela?

ABC News

Labor and the Country Liberal Party running hard to land Northern Territory seat of Lingiari

Whoever voters decide will inherit Lingiari from retiring MP Warren Snowdon also takes on some of the nation's toughest challenges – and the hopes of residents that they'll urgently seek out new solutions.

ABC News

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

ABC News

Calls to increase Jobseeker and rent assistance grow as cost of living surges ahead of federal election

With the election throwing the spotlight on cost of living pressures, welfare groups say promises made so far in the campaign amount to "window dressing" for those living on the poverty line.

The Guardian - AU

Dissent and disaffection in the mega mansions and battler suburbs of Boothby

Change is in the air in the blue-ribbon South Australian seat. Will the status quo prevail or will dissatisfaction with both major parties hand it to an independent?

The Guardian - AU

Missing in action: five issues the major parties are avoiding in the 2022 federal election

Key areas such as conservation, the arts, science and education have been neglected in a narrowly focused campaign

The Guardian - AU

‘They will do nothing to fix it’: why the NBN still matters to many voters

Unlike in 2010 and 2013 when the NBN rollout was a hot topic, it is yet to hit the headlines this election, but it remains front of mind for some

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

ABC News

Will we be saying goodbye to petrol? What the major parties are planning for electric vehicles

Soaring petrol prices across Australia have sparked fuel security concerns. But it has also sparked hope in Australians — hope that their future government will invest in a transport system that isn't reliant on oil, but electricity. Here, we break down what the major parties are offering around electric vehicles.

ABC News

Political candidates are campaigning hard this election to court Indian-Australian voters. Are their strategies paying off?

Scott Morrison is not the only politician trying to influence the Indian-Australian voter. Candidates across the spectrum are seeing Australia's Indian diaspora as a demographic of growing influence — and working hard to woo them.

AAP

Morrison, Albanese in fierce TV debate

Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese have clashed in Sunday's election debate with the leaders grilled on the Solomons, the pandemic response and living costs.

ABC News

Report into NSW grants scheme recommends against making pork-barrelling an offence

A New South Wales government review into grant funding recommends a raft of changes but falls short of saying pork-barrelling should be an offence.

The Guardian - AU

Marise Payne holds first meeting with Solomon Islands counterpart since China security pact

Anthony Albanese says meeting ‘about time’ as Scott Morrison says Australia reassured Solomons would not host military base

ABC News

Anthony Albanese says Tasmanian MP Brian Mitchell's 2011 tweet about female incontinence not appropriate

Labor MP Brian Mitchell's social media posts are again in the spotlight, with Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese conceding a tweet about female incontinence was "not appropriate".

ABC News

Federal Labor to fund Medicare urgent care clinics in Darwin and Alice Springs if elected

Tanya Plibersek announces a Labor government would fund Medicare urgent care clinics in Darwin and Alice Springs as a plan to relieve pressure on hospitals, and also purchase a second CareFlight helicopter for the NT.

1 … 471 472 473 474

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.