Labor candidates break ranks on fossil fuels

Heath Aston 1:05 PM   A sitting Labor MP and a Labor candidate on the NSW North Coast have split with their party to back a ban on political donations from miners and all fossil fuel subsidies.

Barnaby's dairy rescue package

Darren Gray 11:09 AM   Battling dairy farmers smashed by dramatic milk payment cuts will be able to apply for loans at discounted interest rates, under a $555 million loan scheme unveiled by the federal government.

Cormann's gift to 'caring' Shorten

Tom McIlroy 11:30 AM   Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has received some praise from unlikely quarters in the third week of the federal election campaign: Finance Minister Mathias Cormann.

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Liberal candidate for Illawarra quits

Heath Aston 10:33 AM   The Mosman-based Liberal Party candidate for the new Illawarra seat of Whitlam has quit, saying the area probably needs an independent or a Green to represent it.

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'Inbred' Joyce: I'm Johnny Depp's Hannibal

Tom McIlroy 12:23 PM   Deputy PM issues sinister Hollywood retort after US movie star's latest insults in the "war on terrier" affair.

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'Well, Alan, no': PM, Jones in radio rematch

Fergus Hunter 8:23 AM   It was to be the resumption of airwave hostilities but Turnbull's interview with Alan Jones had an unexpected outcome.

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How Shorten has the tactical edge on Turnbull

Ross Gittins 12:00 AM   Most of us have highly stereotypical, caricatured views of the parties' respective strengths and weaknesses.

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'Life after Abbott' infighting divides Libs

Mark Kenny and Heath Aston 11:45 PM   Ex-PM's campaign in blue-ribbon stronghold Warringah succumbs to maneuvering among rank-and-file Libs speculating about "life after Abbott".

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Dumped senator unloads on 'selfish' Peris

Michael Koziol 7:37 PM   The Labor senator whom Julia Gillard forced aside to make way for Nova Peris has unloaded on her 'naive' and 'selfish' successor, who quit Parliament on Tuesday after just one term.

Second candidate rapped for army uniform

Cameron Atfield 6:32 PM   The Australian Defence Force has ordered another federal election candidate to remove imagery from campaign material depicting them in military uniform.

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Koala Foundation enters federal election campaign

Tony Moore 11:02 PM   Foundation wants US-style laws to protect koalas from development.

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The blunt question that caught PM off-guard

Jane Lee 10:28 AM   Press conference in Victorian battleground seat forces Turnbull to confront a "national priority".

Di Natale rounds on 'dinosaur' Joyce

Fergus Hunter 8:58 AM   The Greens have marched into the Nationals heartland of rural New South Wales and they're going straight for top dog Barnaby Joyce, accusing the "sell out" Deputy Prime Minister of forsaking the interests of farmers by denying climate change.

Adult shop bandit overshadows Bill Shorten's Perth campaign

Lisa Martin 3:34 PM   An armed bandit held up an adult shop just metres away from where Federal Opposition leader Bill Shorten was campaigning in Perth on Tuesday.

Turnbull finds his dream factory

Richard Willingham 5:10 PM   Carbon Revolution was the dream factory visit for Malcolm Turnbull.

Parties dial back on advertising

Tom McIlroy 11:21 PM   Spending on television advertising collapsed in the second week of the federal election campaign, as the major parties prepare to blast viewers in the final days before the July 2 poll.

Costings attack backfires on Morrison

James Massola 6:18 PM   Treasurer Scott Morrison has denied there is a black hole of as much as $35b in the government's own claim Labor has a $67-billion, four-year black hole in its budget costings.

Shorten avoids stoush with churches

Matthew Knott 4:16 PM   Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has moved to avoid an election stoush with the nation's churches by vowing to maintain exemptions for religious organisations from anti-discrimination laws.

Senator Peris quits politics

Fergus Hunter 2:44 PM   Northern Territory senator Nova Peris, handpicked by former prime minister Julia Gillard to run for Labor at the 2013 election, has announced her resignation from politics.

The issue troubling two-thirds of voters

Matt Wade 2:10 PM   "Most of us think something has to be done. The question is the scale of that response.''

Mathias Cormann's gift to Shorten

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11:07 AM   Watch the Finance Minister Matias Cormann's ill-timed gaffe praising Opposition Leader Bill Shorten. Vision courtesy ABC News.

Election 2016: Liberal candidate quits

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12:34 PM   It's a safe Labor seat - now it's even safer, after the Liberal candidate for the Illawarra seat of Whitlam, Carollyn Currie, quit the contest.

Superannuation changes 'toxic'

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9:19 AM   Almost two years between interviews, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Alan Jones have buried the hatchet.

Election 2016: Australia's national tragedy

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3:47 PM   More people take their own lives than die in car crashes in Australia, prompting a pledge from politicians.

The spend-o-meter, billion-dollar Bill and 'the big fat lie'

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11:04 AM   Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten launch verbal assaults on each other over the Labor leader's 'spend-o-meter' comments. Courtesy ABC News 24.