How Labor and the Liberals geo-target voters on Facebook

• Natasha Gillezeau

Social media users are being targeted with highly specific campaign advertisements, as both Labor and the Liberals finesse geo-targeting voters on Facebook and YouTube.

'Malicious': Shorten slams climate claims

• Andrew Tillett and Tom McIlroy

Bill Shorten has hit back at Coalition challenges over the cost of Labor's policies on reducing climate emissions, labelling attacks as "intellectually dishonest" and "malicious".

Senator who killed company tax cuts calls it quits

• Phillip Coorey

Tim Storer, the Senator who cost the government its company tax cuts, has quit politics after 14 months.

Relaxed and disciplined on the campaign trail

• Andrew Tillett and Tom McIlroy

Free of public expectations of victory, PM Scott Morrison comes across as a liberated man.

Labor suddenly looks exposed

• Phillip Coorey

Labor, as one MP put it, suddenly feels as though "we've got our arse hanging out in the breeze''.

Coalition hopes to claw back Labor's big advantage in Tasmania

• Ben Potter

The Morrison government has high hopes of clawing back some of Labor's overwhelming advantage in Tasmania's five House of Representatives seats in the federal election, with its eyes on the marginal seat of Braddon and the north-west seat of Bass.

Budget update fails to quell row over tax cuts

• Phillip Coorey

The pre-election budget update has done little to settle the political row over tax cuts and how they will be paid for.

Shorten 'superficial' on policy, PM says, after super gaffe

• Andrew Tillett

In an interview with AFR Weekend while on the campaign trail, the Prime Minister vows to leave no stone unturned as he launches a raid on Labor's Tasmanian seats.