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The opposition leader's electorate office has been vandalised and protesters in hazmat suits interrupted his media event on a bumpy day on the campaign trail.

Welcome to country ceremonies will be held as planned this week with the NRL remaining committed to its Reconciliation Action Plan

Peter Dutton says welcome to country ceremonies are ‘overdone’ but the resulting discourse often mixes up the ceremony performed by traditional owners with a practice designed for others to pay respect

First Indigenous Australian to serve as federal minister says ‘to politicise it just adds to the division’

Two countries plunged into chaos after millions were left without electricity; Essential poll says Labor still has winning lead

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The "quiet Australians" who delivered a Liberal predecessor an unlikely election victory could hand the party another unexpected poll win, Peter Dutton insists.

A re-elected Labor government would also claw back $760m by increasing the cost of student visa applications

The government has dug out last-minute savings of more than A$7 billion, to ensure its election commitments are more than offset in every year of the forward estimates.

Jim Chalmers labelled Peter Dutton the ‘biggest risk’ to Australia’s AAA credit rating and household budgets

In front of a crowd of party faithful last weekend, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton referred to the ABC, Guardian Australia and other news platforms as “hate media”. The language was extreme, the inference being these outlets were not simply doing their jobs, but attacking him and his side of politics…