Jacob Greber is the chief digital political correspondent at Parliament House in Canberra.
Where Barnaby Joyce, Michael McCormack, Warren Truss and almost every one of their predecessors succeeded for the best past of a century, David Littleproud has failed.
Structurally the omens are not good for the Liberals, particularly outside Queensland.
The new opposition leader's pitch conveniently air-brushes away her role as Peter Dutton's deputy and co-author of an agenda rejected by voters on May 3.
Firebrand senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price's shock defection to the Liberal Party is condemned by one insider as a hostile takeover attempt and a form of "desperate branch stacking" to boost Angus Taylor's leadership hopes.
The writing was on the wall for Peter Dutton long before Anthony Albanese fired the starter's gun on the election race that would see the Coalition decimated.
Kate Hulett, who has said she will be "raging" against a proposed Woodside gas extension if elected, may be delivered to parliament thanks to the Liberals preferencing her above Labor.
For the Coalition, Saturday night was like one of those gory horror movies where half the headline cast gets decapitated before the first act is over.
The Coalition enters the dying hours of the 2025 election campaign defending its budget against charges from some of the nation's top economists that it erodes the Coalition's self-declared legacy of fiscal responsibility.
A YouGov poll suggests Labor's momentum over the Coalition has firmed, with a two-party preferred vote approaching 53 per cent.
Shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor will claim the Coalition's budget deficits would be at least $10 billion smaller than Labor's forecast $150 billion shortfalls over four years.
Both sides of politics are gearing up for a frenetic 72 hours of campaigning with Anthony Albanese planning to visit every state before election day.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers says the federal budget will be about $1 billion better off over four years compared to the March budget.
The crucible of a campaign tests who has what it takes to be a leader. With less than a week to go, we're starting to who has passed the test.
Dominant parties imply the choice is a narrow binary but in reality Australian contests are increasingly determined by third party campaigns.
The Coalition has sent voters contradictory messages about whether it has accounted for the vast water requirements of its seven proposed nuclear plants after Peter Dutton declared the issue all but resolved.
One of the National Party's top hopes for an election pick-up in Western Australia has blasted the Coalition's opposition to Labor's resources production tax credits, saying "good policy deserves support".
On Sunday alone, Labor and the Coalition unveiled almost $24 billion in spending. Neither side has detailed how the new promises will be funded, or where the offsetting savings or tax cuts will come from.
Peter Dutton has launched a controversial pitch to regain campaign momentum, countering Anthony Albanese's house deposit pledge with a radical mortgage interest tax deduction for first-home buyers.
Peter Dutton has super-charged his fight against Labor over housing with a promise that first-time buyers of newly built homes will be able to deduct the interest on their mortgage payments from income taxes for five years.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers and his opposition counterpart Angus Taylor clash in an evenly matched TV debate over the budget, productivity, Donald Trump's trade war and their personal weaknesses.
Peter Dutton's cornerstone east coast gas reservation policy may reduce household electricity bills by "around 3 per cent" in 2026, according to modelling released nearly two weeks after the plan was announced.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has taken himself off the election campaign trail to hold a series of high-level meetings with the Reserve Bank and big bank CEOs to discuss fallout from Donald Trump's trade war and market volatility.
Jim Chalmers has pointed to financial market bets that the Reserve Bank could cut interest rates up to four times this year.
The Trump effect is becoming a vicious political accelerant. While he might be the left's worst nightmare, the US president may cause the most damage to the right.
The mining magnate confirms a disagreement with the federal opposition leader over Dutton's gas reservation plan, but says the "beauty of the non-left-side" of politics is people can disagree on issues at times and "still remain good friends".