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The Guardian
27-04-2025
- Politics
- The Guardian
Leaders' debate live updates: Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton meet in final election debate
Welcome to the final leaders' debate Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Emily Wind Good evening, and welcome to the final leaders' debate of the federal election campaign, with less than a week to go until polling day. I'm Emily Wind, and I'll be taking you through all of the action tonight. Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton will go head-to-head in one more televised debate on 7News, kicking off just after 8pm AEST tonight. The showdown will be broadcast on Seven's free-to-air channel as well as on catch-up service 7plus. Viewers can also stream it on We will also be bringing you all the highlights from the debate right here on our live blog. The debate will be moderated by 7News' political editor, Mark Riley, and hosted at Seven's studios in Sydney. There will be no winner declared as part of the debate broadcast – instead, a studio audience of 60 undecided voters will give their verdicts post-debate. We'll have more details on how the debate will play out shortly. Share
The Guardian
16-04-2025
- Politics
- The Guardian
Election 2025 live: Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton go head-to-head in second leaders' debate
Welcome to the second leaders' debate Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Emily Wind Good evening and welcome to our live blog for the second leaders' debate as part of the federal election campaign. I'm Emily Wind and I'll be taking you through all the action tonight. The ABC will host tonight's debate between Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton from its new Parramatta site – the first to be held in an ABC studio since 1993. The debate will kick off at 8pm AEST. The ABC will choose the topics and questions, with the event moderated by the Insiders host David Speers. Following a more traditional debate style, the prime minister and opposition leader will each present opening and closing remarks, and be granted equal time to respond to questions. The debate will be broadcast free on ABC TV, iView, ABC Radio and the ABC listen app. And, of course, I'll bring you all the key takeaways right here. For more on tonight's debate – as well as previous and future debates – you can have a read below: Share
The Guardian
24-03-2025
- Business
- The Guardian
Australia politics live: Chalmers prepares to deliver budget as economist says it won't ‘shift the dial' on interest rates
Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Good morning and welcome to our live politics blog, and happy budget day! I'm Martin Farrer with the top overnight stories and then it'll be Emily Wind with the main action. Jim Chalmers will deliver his budget today with the message that although the debt burden has continued to grow and 'there's more to do', Labor are on the right track with lower unemployment and interest rates buoying the country's economic fortunes. We have the initial reaction from Westpac's chief economist coming up, plus loads more reaction as the news day kicks off. We have an exclusive story this morning on how Liberal backbenchers are urging the Coalition not to cut foreign aid to pay for a potential $15bn increase in defence spending and other big-ticket election promises. Back to Labor, and the party says it is planning to establish a federal environment protection agency if it wins the election, just weeks after the 2022 election promise was controversially shelved in what appeared to be a backing down in face of a political and industry backlash in Western Australia. The renewal of the idea looks calculated to help Labor MPs facing a strong challenge from the Greens at the upcoming federal election. The public commitment will help placate Labor MPs anxious about the party's green credentials after the government pushed ahead with laws to protect Tasmania's salmon industry from legal challenge over its impact on the endangered Maugean skate. The bill is expected to go before parliament as early as today. Share
The Guardian
19-03-2025
- Politics
- The Guardian
Australia news live: Greens pledge to ‘end homelessness'; Good Life festival the latest to skip 2025
Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Good morning and welcome to our live news blog. I'm Martin Farrer with some of the top overnight stories before Emily Wind takes the news baton. In our top story this morning, the former foreign affairs minister Bob Carr tells us that Australia faces a 'colossal surrender of sovereignty' if promised US nuclear-powered submarines do not arrive under Australian control. As a report by a group called Australians for War Powers Reform is released today, Carr argues that the US is 'utterly not a reliable ally' to Australia. More details on the way. There's a lot of politics around this morning with another report saying a re-elected Labor government would reduce the price of PBS-listed medicines to no more than $25 a script in a major election pledge to be included in next week's budget. At the same time, Peter Dutton faces internal pressure to match Labor's budget giveaways as Coalition MPs hope to neutralise a potentially potent Labor attack during the campaign. And the Greens launch their housing policy in Brisbane today with a call for billions in extra funding for accommodation and supported tenancies. More coming up. Dovetailing with this buildup of political stories today, we have a fascinating read today by the researcher Rebecca Huntley about social trends and how Australians have lost hope in the concept of the 'fair go' and place more value in security and personal freedom. She finds that driving this change is the unaffordability of housing and declining engagement with politics, and has some suggestions about how to fix the problem. And the Good Life music festival has joined the growing list of festivals to cancel their 2025 editions, as costs escalate. More on that soon. Share
The Guardian
04-03-2025
- Climate
- The Guardian
Australia news live: Albanese in Brisbane as Tropical Cyclone Alfred remains on course to slam into Gold Coast
Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Tropical Cyclone Alfred continues to arc back towards the populated south-east Queensland coastline, as predicted by forecasters. The Bureau of Meteorology's updated tracking and advice on Wednesday morning shows Alfred is expected to maintain its Category 2 intensity for the next two days, before crossing the coast about 1am on Friday morning. Coastal high tides are expected in the hours following the predicted crossing - most parts of the coastline will experience a high tide between 1.30am and 3.30am on Friday. That sort of timing will worry authorities, who have said repeatedly that a crossing coinciding with a high tide would be particularly damaging for coastal areas. The bureau's latest track map shows Alfred crossing the coast a little further south than earlier predictions, at the southern end of Brisbane. The likely crossing point remains somewhere between the Sunshine Coast and the Gold Coast. Warnings are in place from Double Island Point in Queensland to Grafton in New South Wales. Share Martin Farrer Good morning and welcome to our live news blog. I'm Martin Farrer with the best overnight stories before Emily Wind is along to take the helm. Anthony Albanese arrived in Brisbane last night as Tropical Cyclone Alfred bore down on south-east Queensland with 4 million people in its path. Memories of disastrous floods in 2011 and 2022 are being revived as the storm threatens to dump at least 400mm of rain on the region when it hits. Residents of low-lying suburbs in Brisbane are sandbagging their homes and hoping for the best as the cyclone threatens another flood in the city. We will have regular updates throughout the day, beginning with the latest on the forecast storm track from the Bureau of Meteorology in a few minutes. One of our top stories this morning is a new report showing that Australians are losing more money to gambling each year than the federal government spends on aged care. The sum is almost as much as it spends on the national disability insurance scheme. It's been a turbulent night on international financial markets after the US went ahead with tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China, they all retaliated, and stocks fell in the US to below their pre-November election level. But here in Australia economists think things are heading in the right direction as the national accounts come out later this morning. More coming up. Share
