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Labor reveals how it would balance the federal budget with its election promises as a global agency warns government spending could trigger a credit downgrade.

Liberals and Nationals candidates running in seats where nuclear plants could be set up under a coalition government so far haven't been playing up the plan.

As was widely predicted, the cost of living has dominated the federal election campaign. Soaring rents, grocery bills and energy prices have squeezed household budgets.

With the May 3 federal election less than a week away, voters have only just received Labor’s costings and are yet to hear from the Coalition.

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Election campaign enters final week; ramming motives investigated in Canada; warnings of severe starvation in Gaza

Australia is running out of affordable, safe places to live. Rents and mortgages are climbing faster than wages, and young people fear they may never own a home.

In searching for the “real” Peter Dutton, it is possible to end up frustrated because you have looked too hard.

Barring a rogue result, this Saturday Anthony Albanese will achieve what no major party leader has done since John Howard’s prime-ministerial era – win consecutive elections. Admittedly, in those two decades he is only the second of the six prime ministers (the other is Scott Morrison), who has been permitted…

Small businesses say conditions are the toughest they've ever been and election promises will do little to help, with action on insurance costs notably absent.

From bad airline service to the once election-deciding future of the NBN, Labor and the Coalition have been notably silent on some key policy areas