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Labor has launched its first campaign advertisement, laying out its bid for a second term in office as it leans on traditional values such as health care.

Anthony Albanese’s ruling Labor party faces a challenge by the centre-right Coalition led by Peter Dutton at the 3 May vote

Australians will go to the polls on May 3 for an election squarely centred on the cost of living.

The usual story for a first-term government is a loss of seats, as voters send it a message, but ultimate survival.

Now that an election has been called, Australian voters will go to the polls on May 3 to decide the fate of the first-term, centre-left Australian Labor Party government led by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

They are neither as leafy nor as affluent as much of the Liberal heartland, but Peter Dutton believes the outer ring-roads of Australia’s capitals provide the most direct route to power. He has been telling his MPs these once-safe Labor-voting suburbs are where the 2025 election can be won.

The Albanese government has a fighting chance of winning the 2025 election, but will need to achieve in five weeks of campaigning what it hasn’t in three years in office. That is, work out a narrative explaining what it’s about and that can persuade Australians to back it for a…

Australia has not ousted a government after just a single term since 1931

With Albanese set to call poll for early May, Dutton pledges cheaper gas and petrol; bipartisan call for investigation into group chat fiasco

The coalition have pledged gas investment to bring down power prices as they position themselves as stronger leaders for the nation ahead of the election.