Given the US president’s fraudulent tariffs,an honest Australian election campaign would confront the need for a national insurance policy against an unreliable ally.
The difference between the two leaders is that some mistakes are quickly forgotten while others shape the campaign.
Labor will urge the workplace regulator to order a real increase in pay for 2.6 million workers after the RBA chose to keep interest rates on hold.
President Donald Trump is expected to impose tariffs on $7 billion worth of Australian farm produce which enters the United States each year.
Former ambassadors and Defence officials warned on Monday that Australia should shift to a stronger form of self-defence in case the US retreated from the ANZUS alliance.
Australians’ opinions have flipped in just a few weeks on whether Anthony Albanese or Peter Dutton will be victorious in the federal election.
Households are set to gain federal help to cut their energy bills under a government plan to make it easier for them to buy home batteries.
The dramatic swing has tightened the race for power in the opening stage of the election campaign,putting Labor and the Coalition neck and neck in two-party terms.
The accusation came as the prime minister and the opposition leader duelled over plans to bring down the price of gas and lower household power bills.
Standing in the prime minister’s courtyard at 8am,Anthony Albanese implied Peter Dutton was taking a Trump-lite strategy on public service cuts.