It’s a slaughter. Albanese threw off the frightened rabbit disguise and revealed he was a terminator
Anthony Albanese has joined the pantheon of Labor heroes with a devastating victory over the Coalition, including removing Peter Dutton.
It’s a brand-new crossbench: Who’s been booted? Who’s joining the party?
Crikey has gathered all of the new potential crossbench in one place to assess who’s likely, who’s a smokey, and who’s dreaming.
Anti-vaccine ‘freedom movement’ stars actively organising for Liberal-backed Advance group
Reignite Democracy Australia’s Monica Smit and the Freedom Party’s Morgan C. Jonas have both been recruiting from their followings to help Advance’s anti-Greens campaign.
Chinese Australians are again being used to sell papers and score political points
Another federal election, another excuse to use Chinese Australians as political footballs, with Jane Hume even alluding to ‘Chinese spies’ handing out leaflets. It has not gone unnoticed.
Crikey has gone on a mad dash around the country to visit some of the most marginal (or just downright fascinating) seats in play this election.
Also apparently Albo falling off of a stage was this campaign’s most memorable moment. Grim.
Crikey’s undecided Eggheads are cracking over this yoke of an election
They are unanimous on one aspect of the 2025 federal election: business-as-usual politics has left voters feeling dirty.
It appears neither campaign has managed to seriously impress the nation’s media overlords — but they’ve all still backed a horse.
YouTube has been around so long that it’s easy to miss how it’s grown even bigger and more influential. Australian political parties, candidates and groups are starting to take note.
Election ’25: Two campaigns, one strategy, few good policies and absolutely no winners
Lagging behind in the polls at the start of the year, Anthony Albanese came charging out of the blocks. Peter Dutton was asleep, and has spent the entire campaign falling over his own feet to catch up.
Australia’s aviation sector needs a serious overhaul, with prices rising yet again and not a whiff of competition. But in a campaign dominated by pork-barrelling and hip-pocket promises, it’s crickets on any innovative policy changes.
Plus, is Labor headed for a significant majority?
Editors’ picks
Will Pauline Hanson be a kingmaker?
The growing support for One Nation likely means a less cohesive and secure Australia. But the media is focused on the lower house, where the flow of preferences is suddenly crucial.
Which man in a blue blazer and chinos will win Wannon?
The race for Wannon is a contrast of old and new. Far-right preferences may decide the fate of Liberal frontbencher Dan Tehan.
Women’s rage helped deliver Labor victory in 2022. This campaign has lost all momentum
‘This election campaign, neither major party has shown the kind of leadership needed to give the issue of women’s safety the prominence it deserves, or to treat it with the gravity it demands.’
Here’s who will win the 23 most marginal seats on Saturday — according to locals
On the ground with Crikey readers across the country, with a few surprise calls to boot.
Trump thinks he runs the world. Australians might have something to say about that
Australians are avid consumers of US politics. But that doesn’t mean the vast majority are fans of the current president.
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Crikey for PM sends spam texts to Clive Palmer, Monique Ryan, the Liberals and Labor (they loved it)
Political parties can collect as much information about you as they want and bombard you with texts, emails and calls. We gave them a taste of their own medicine.
Crikey for PM consulted the master of election defeats, Crikey founder Stephen Mayne, who currently boasts 57 election defeats.
Anti-vaccine ‘freedom movement’ stars actively organising for Liberal-backed Advance group
Reignite Democracy Australia’s Monica Smit and the Freedom Party’s Morgan C. Jonas have both been recruiting from their followings to help Advance’s anti-Greens campaign.
Misleading, mischaracterising: The election campaign’s biggest clangers
Both Albanese and Dutton have also parroted debunked claims, often using flawed calculations and cherry-picked data.
Donald Trump’s sackings of senior intelligence personnel suggest the mad tribalism of MAGA is now damaging American intelligence capability.
China is the source of our prosperity, and our greatest security threat. The US is the source of our security, but now our greatest economic threat. Have we learnt from dealing with China?
The new faces of Menzies’ forgotten voters
From blackout to ‘black hole’: How streaming services like 9Now and Kayo could swing the election
Teals will prevail amid Coalition bloodbath if latest poll bears out
You might have thought what we’ve seen from the giant toothbrush-wielding Adam Bandt has been election campaigning. But you’d be wrong.
This election, we’re desecrating 10,000 years for roughly 10,000 votes
Peter Dutton’s Guide to Disagreeing Nicely
Amid Dutton’s ‘hate media’ and Trump’s despotism, press freedom is more vital than ever
Until neo-Nazis began booing Welcomes to Country, we were heading for an entire election campaign in which Indigenous peoples simply didn’t exist for major party leaders.
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It’s a slaughter. Albanese threw off the frightened rabbit disguise and revealed he was a terminator
The Coalition has been plugging its nuclear modelling over the course of the election campaign — but was the advice actually as independent as it claims?
Plus: it’s funny how the Clive Palmer crew seem to hate getting a taste of their own medicine…
Scott Mitchell and Osman Faruqi were part of some of the biggest media outlets in the country. Now they’ve gone independent to critique the crisis of Australian media.
Plus: a dearth of disclosures at papers of all stripes.
A report into the largest public health crisis in Australia, sexual violence, was supposed to delve deep into how victims are failed by justice. But it needs to be thrown out entirely.
Pro-Palestine protests and sustained years of climate activism have contributed to the recent flurry of legislation.
While Peter Dutton gets a flurry of coverage whenever his party threatens and then unthreatens to abandon the Paris deal, there is wildly insufficient scrutiny on Labor’s commitment to climate action.
Peter Dutton has said hosting COP31 will cost Australia ‘tens of billions’. But the bigger question might be whether the climate conference is even fit for purpose.
For years the World Economic Forum’s ‘Global Competitiveness Index’ was used to push neoliberal policies around the world. Turns out it may have been manipulated.
Big global investors are moving money offshore and selling down their US share investments — and Donald Trump has only himself to blame.
The banking regulator has grown tired of waiting for ANZ to clean up its act and slapped another capital requirement on the bank. But will ANZ ever lift its game?
As sales plunge catastrophically, Tesla faces claims it defrauded Canada’s electric vehicle subsidy scheme — from which it has now been kicked out.
The reaction to the Russian airbase-that-never-was in Indonesia shows how unprepared Australia is to deal with our changed security circumstances.
A former Trump cybersecurity adviser told Australian podcaster Patrick Gray that the current US administration’s cybersecurity policy was making ‘all of us less safe’.