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AU Financial Review
02-05-2025
- Entertainment
- AU Financial Review
In Pictures: Best of the 2025 election campaign
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese crosses paths with Opposition Leader Peter Dutton in western Sydney. James Brickwood Peter Dutton visits Ag Fest in Carrick in the division of Lyons in Tasmania. James Brickwood Anthony Albanese is assisted after tumbling off the riser while taking a group photo during the MEU conference, in Lovedale, NSW, in the electorate of Hunter. Alex Ellinghausen Peter Dutton's travelling media bus gets stuck on a cycle lane kerb when leaving the Fullerton Hotel in Sydney. James Brickwood Peter Dutton visits Hunter Trade College in the division of Paterson in NSW. James Brickwood Anthony Albanese playing pool after talking to university students at the pub in a Greens seat of Brisbane. Alex Ellinghausen Peter Dutton and Kooyong Liberal candidate Amelia Hamer at The Tower hotel in Hawthorn East, Melbourne. James Brickwood Peter Dutton and Anthony Albanese during the third leaders' debate at Nine's studios in Sydney. Alex Ellinghausen Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, Michaelia Cash and Peter Dutton at the Mount Pleasant Bowling Club, in the Perth suburb of Ardoss. James Brickwood Anthony Albanese goes after the canine vote during a visit to Sunnybank Market Square in Brisbane. Alex Ellinghausen Peter Dutton has a go at wool grading at the Sydney Royal Easter Show. James Brickwood On tools: Labor member for Tangney Sam Lim, Anthony Albanese and Jodie Haydon run the barbecue at Winthrop Park in Winthrop, WA. Alex Ellinghausen Former prime minister John Howard with Peter Dutton at Liverpool Catholic Club in Sydney. James Brickwood Anthony Albanese and former prime minister Julia Gillard at the Australian Labor Party federal election campaign launch at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre. Alex Ellinghausen Peter Dutton visits Sanctuary Point in NSW to announce an investment pledge towards local football field facilities. James Brickwood Anthony Albanese participates in the Freddy's Pass Off segment on the Sunday Footy Show at the Nine studios in Sydney. Alex Ellinghausen Peter Dutton plays two-up at the Townsville RSL club. James Brickwood Anthony Albanese meets kids at Cabramatta Public School in Sydney. Alex Ellinghausen Peter Dutton has visited more than a dozen petrol stations during the election campaign to focus on the Coalition's plan to cut fuel excise for one year. James Brickwood Peter Dutton and Anthony Albanese shake hands at the end of the third leaders' debate at the Nine studios in Sydney. Alex Ellinghausen Peter Dutton attends the Assyrian New Year celebrations at Fairfield Showgrounds in Sydney. James Brickwood Anthony Albanese and Foreign Minister Penny Wong have lunch with Chinese business leaders in Melbourne. Alex Ellinghausen
The Age
01-05-2025
- Politics
- The Age
Federal election 2025: Peter Dutton polls dwindle as he instructs voters to ignore campaign
Peter Dutton has called on voters to judge the Albanese government's record, rather than his own performance on the campaign trail, even as he launches a last-ditch blitz of marginal electorates. 'This election really is a referendum, not about the election campaign, but about the last three years of government,' he told reporters at a morning press conference in his own seat of Dickson in outer Brisbane, before heading south to Tasmania for the afternoon. Peter Dutton, pictured at Ag Fest in Tasmania on Thursday, wants to be seen as a builder rather than being judged on his campaign. Credit: James Brickwood Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, meanwhile, began his own six state, two-day blitz in Perth before heading to Adelaide and on to Brisbane where he will spend the day campaigning on Friday morning in seats Labor is trying to win from the Greens and Liberals. Dutton's day did not begin well, with questions from the travelling media over his prospects of remaining leader if the Coalition does not form government at the May 3 election. Dutton brushed off the question – he's learned not to accept the premise of questions he doesn't like – and instead spruiked his policies to cut petrol and power prices. After a month of reversals, backdowns and contradictions captured live on camera every day while his poll numbers slid south, Dutton would quite like the voters to judge him on the actual referendum, the 2023 Voice to parliament, where he convincingly won the argument and defeated Albanese's cause. Labor minister Anika Wells had said earlier on the ABC, in the careful language of a frontbencher, that 'the Voice in the form that we took to the referendum is gone' and the government respected the outcome but was 'always looking for a way to help First Nations people'. That, Dutton said, was evidence that 'the Voice, in some form, presumably through legislation, is going to be a part of the Albanese government's next term in power, if they're successful on Saturday'. 'I'll just ask Australians to think about that for a second. You sent a very clear message to the prime minister that you said no to the Voice, and now the prime minister is saying back to you, 'well, we've got this secret plan, when we're in government, to reintroduce the Voice in the form of legislation'.'
