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Shadow assistant minister Andrew Leigh confirms the party has dropped plans to review the benefit

This week’s Newspoll, conducted April 6-9 from a sample of 1,506, gave Labor a 53-47 lead, a one-point gain for the Coalition since last week. Primary votes were 37% Labor (down one), 36% Coalition (steady), 10% Greens (steady), 4% UAP (up one), 3% One Nation (steady) and 10% for all…

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Unions want casual work fix an election campaign issue

Coal comfort: who cares more? Labor or Coalition.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said the measures will be 'targeted' to support families on low incomes

We examine Anthony Albanese’s deliberately pared-back, small-target policies for 2022 federal election campaign

The map below shows the 2019 federal election results adjusted for redistributions in Victoria and Western Australia. Victoria gained a seat (Hawke), while WA lost one (Stirling). Hawke is a notional Labor seat, while Stirling was a Liberal seat, so Labor gained one notional seat by redistribution.

In the run up to the federal election, there is growing discussion of “preference deals” between political parties.

For many Australians, the promise of cheap, reliable broadband remains a dream. So why is the National Broadband Network (NBN) still not delivering an outcome that was promised more than a decade ago when the NBN rollout commenced?

The day one visit to the marginal seat of Gilmore shows the Coalition's keenness to take it back after one term with Labor.