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Many of the candidates vying for Liberal heartland seats share policy ideas and funding sources. But does that mean they aren’t truly independent?

Federal Labor estimates its "shared-equity" scheme that it is announcing today could cut the cost of buying a new home by up to $380,000 in some markets.

At the campaign’s halfway point in the highly contested seat of Wentworth, ‘teal’ candidate Allegra Spender has shifted - but polarised - soft voters’ views about her.

Chants of "Zed, Zed, Zed" echoed throughout the room as Senator Zed Seselja stepped up to the podium.

News of debate which will employ a panel of three journalists comes as Labor pledges robodebt royal commission and Coalition promises cheaper medicines

Why ranking your preferred candidates from thottie to nottie is so important.

But the idea drew the ire of the Greens.

Anthony Albanese has promised to build 130 electric buses in Perth, creating more than 100 local jobs, if Labor wins the federal election.

Named in honour of the poet who created "The Man from Snowy River", along with an early colonial explorer, Paterson stretches through the Hunter, from the retirement heaven around Port Stephens to a parcel of the traditional mining - and Labor - heartland of the Coalfields, so there is much…