In his budget reply, Bill Shorten avoided the government’s traps and wisely stressed his party’s traditional strengths: health, education and social policy.
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Bill Shorten has claimed savings of $71 billion over ten years – most of it from rejecting almost all the budget’s company tax cut.
It is unusual to invoke the caretaker conventions so far out from an election. So why is Labor clamouring for them to kick in?
While trade unions still exert some influence on the ALP, it is nowhere near as much as it once was.
A Labor government would bring in its emissions trading scheme in two stages, together with a separate scheme for the electricity sector.
When asked this week whether in retrospect she regretted the government trying to undo Labor’s consumer protections, Assistant Treasurer Kelly O'Dwyer denied it had happened.
We’re off! The race to be Australia’s next prime minister has begun. What had until recently looked like being a gentle canter to the winning post for Malcolm Turnbull and his Coalition government now…
The latest Fairfax-Ipsos poll has more dismal news for Malcolm Turnbull.
Bill Shorten has promised a Labor government would set up a royal commission into misconduct in the banking and financial services industry.
As Labor nosed ahead of the government in the latest Newspoll, Michelle Grattan tells Stephen Parker this won’t necessarily translate into an election loss for the Coalition.
Next week Malcolm Turnbull will briefly take one foot off the domestic treadmill for his first visit to China as prime minister, going to Shanghai as well as Beijing.
Bill Shorten on Wednesday will launch a campaign to exploit Malcolm Turnbull’s suggestion that it would be logical for state governments to take over full funding responsibility for public schools.
The federal government has fallen behind Labor in Newspoll for the first time under Malcolm Turnbull, with Labor now leading 51-49% on a two-party basis.
While Labor goes into the election year as underdogs, the party's strategy to win government will capitalise on what it sees as its competitive advantages.
Bill Shorten should be praying those pesky crossbenchers give in to Malcolm Turnbull and pass the government’s industrial legislation.
Malcolm Turnbull’s move to have the governor-general recall parliament, using an often-forgotten constitutional power, caught many political players off guard.
Malcolm Turnbull’s ultimatum to the Senate – pass the government’s industrial relations bills or face a double dissolution – is a confrontationist but canny strategy.
The Coalition has a solid 53-47% two-party lead in the latest Fairfax-Ipsos poll but Malcolm Turnbull’s ratings have taken a hit in the last month.
The momentum for a July 2 double dissolution has accelerated with Malcolm Turnbull opening the way to bring the May 10 budget forward by a week. “The budget will be in May,” he said on Tuesday, as he prepared…
The government and opposition are tied on 50-50 in the two-party vote in the latest Newspoll, while Malcolm Turnbull’s satisfaction rating has fallen.
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