The Latest Breaking News from Coalition

Labor has pledged $8.5bn to help increase bulk-billing rates and the Coalition matched its promise – but the issue won’t go away. Here is what the funding aims to achieve

Peter Dutton, when he gets on his favoured ground of security, too often goes for the quick hit, and frequently over-reaches.

Will Peter Dutton take his plan to the election? Comments in public and behind the scenes on Tuesday suggested mixed feelings among the Coalition

The Greens have heaped a lot of pressure on the government during this term, from issues of the environment, housing, and Medicare, to the war in the Middle East.

Power prices are set to go up again even though renewables now account for 40% of the electricity in Australia’s main grid – close to quadruple the clean power we had just 15 years ago. How can that be, given renewables are the cheapest form of newly built power generation?

Liberals Against Nuclear say the policy would increase bureaucracy and impose ‘massive taxpayer-backed risk’

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton — who spent months calling the Voice referendum a waste of money — is now floating the idea of holding one over deporting Australian citizens.

Australia’s energy policy would take a sharp turn if the Coalition wins the upcoming federal election. A Dutton government would seek to build seven nuclear power plants at the sites of old coal-fired power stations.

PM’s approval rating increases to 46%, up four percentage points since the last poll, as Labor and Coalition run neck-and-neck on a two-party preferred basis

Labor rubbishes demands for new legislation and says Coalition approach would jeopardise ongoing investigations

Murray Watt says deregistering union’s construction division would jeopardise ongoing investigations and that new US-style laws are unnecessary