Prime Minister Anthony Albanese won’t commit to do anything to stop the text messages.

Albanese ‘happy’ to ban annoying texts,won’t commit to make it happen

Mining magnate Clive Palmer’s Trumpet of Patriots has been sending large volumes of texts,but the mainstream parties also have a history of using unsolicited messages.

  • Olivia Ireland andSarah McPhee

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Clive Palmer (left) and his candidates (from top centre clockwise) Suellen Wrightson,Todd Charles Juchau,Michael Norman Jessop,Gabrial Pennicott and David Sarikaya.

The prince,the pauper,perp and other Patriots in the Trumpet

One candidate was allegedly discovered with duct tape and a cadaver bag in his car. Another is a prince.

  • Harriet Alexander
A cut through image of politics for a generation glued to a much smaller screen.

Billboards vs content creators – the new frontier in election marketing

While some politicians are leveraging different mediums to reach new audiences ahead of the election,others are sticking with the signs of their times.

  • Courtney Kruk
Clive Palmer at a press conference at Parliament House.

Teal independents to get an unlikely preference boost – from Clive Palmer

Clive Palmer’s Trumpet of Patriots party will put incumbent MPs last,threatening Liberal MPs in key electorates they are defending against independent challengers.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos andPaul Sakkal
The Seven Network has been dealing with staff underpayments.

Seven West Media grapples with underpayment scandal

The bad headlines are back for Seven West Media.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman andStephen Brook
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Trumpet of Patriots ad shown 10 million times before Google removal

The ad featured a segment from a two-decade-old documentary that claimed to expose “the truth about climate change”.

  • Calum Jaspan
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An ad for Clive Palmer's Trumpet of Patriots party was shown more than 10 million times on YouTube,before being removed for a violation of its political advertising policies.
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Trumpet of Patriots ad removed for policy violation

An ad for Clive Palmer's Trumpet of Patriots party was shown more than 10 million times on YouTube,before being removed for a violation of its political advertising policies.

Clive Palmer,Trumpet of Patriots chairman,arrives at Parliament House on Budget day.

Clive Palmer jets in to gatecrash Jim Chalmers’ budget

Many lobbyists and business leaders who normally storm Parliament House on budget night stayed away. But not Clive Palmer.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman
Joe Hockey.

Inside Joe Hockey’s power-heavy garden party

The former federal treasurer can still draw a crowd of political and media elites

  • Kishor Napier-Raman andMadeleine Heffernan
Mining magnate Clive Palmer with Victorian senator Ralph Babet.

Why Clive Palmer’s $110 million senator is skipping the budget

A virtual Tucker Carlson is more appealing for Ralph Babet than Jim Chalmers’ showpiece in Canberra next Tuesday.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman,Stephen Brook andMadeleine Heffernan