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The opposition leader says he ‘won’t be able to get to all’ of the seven locations earmarked for flagship nuclear policy, while Labor says he has not been within 50km of any during election campaign

The coalition has performed another election campaign about-face, this time vowing to scrap electric vehicle subsidies, as it slides down the polls.

Dutton commits to redo security checks for Gazan refugees and doubles down on antisemitism questions in citizenship tests

Pundits and political scientists like to repeat that we live in an age of political polarisation. But if you sat through the second debate between Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition leader Peter Dutton last Wednesday night, you’d be forgiven for asking what polarisation people are talking about.

We don’t know if the prime minister marks the Catholic box on his census form. We do know that his heritage is meaningful to him

"Prime Minister, you couldn't lie straight in bed," Dutton said in what felt like a Real Housewives episode.

Peter Dutton has promised a coalition government would raise defence spending and rely on higher income taxes to partially fund the pledge.

Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton have met for the third leaders’ debate of this election campaign, this time on the Nine network. And while the debate traversed much of the same ground as the first two, the quick-fire set up of the debate allowed for some more animated exchanges less…

In the leaders’ third head-to-head encounter, on Nine on Tuesday, Peter Dutton’s bluntness when pressed on cuts has given more ammunition to Labor’s scare campaign about what a Coalition government might do.