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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.

“From my perspective, it is a matter of respect. We have a great privilege of sharing this continent with the oldest continuous culture on Earth," Albo said.

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.

Major parties used to easily dismiss the rare politician who stood alone in parliament. These MPs could be written off as isolated idealists, and the press could condescend to them as noble, naïve and unlikely to succeed.

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…

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

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton have had their fourth and final leaders’ debate of the campaign. The skirmish, hosted by 7News in Sydney, was moderated by 7’s Political Editor Mark Riley.

The fourth election debate was the most idiosyncratic of the four head-to-head contests between Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton.