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Workers’ ability to buy things with their wages is little different from when Tony Abbott took office in September 2013

One of Australia's top national security figures denies there was a failure by intelligence agencies to stop a military pact being signed between Solomon Islands and China.

The first leaders’ debate of the federal election campaign tonight will be watched by just a handful of people on a pay-TV channel.

The polls seem to show that female voters don’t have a lot of time for Scott Morrison and his Liberal Party — a bad omen for May 21?

Remember those classic lines that have come out of election debates? Recall 2013 when Tony Abbott asked the audience, “Does this guy [Kevin Rudd] ever shut up?” Or Bill Shorten in 2019 describing Scott Morrison as a “classic space invader?” Or back in 1993 when Paul Keating told John Hewson…

From a carbon tax to Medicare, energy bills and pensioner changes — the Coalition and Labor are both relying heavily on scare campaigns ahead of next month's poll.

Boat turnbacks, offshore detention and third-country resettlement have bipartisan support. Does Labor differ at all from the government?

Latest polling and the momentum behind independent candidates mean a hung Parliament could be a real possibility.

`This is the first in a two-part series on the major parties’ Treasury spokespeople. You can read Carol Johnson’s profile of Jim Chalmers here.