Finn Mchugh

No one said framing a budget during a global energy crisis would be easy. But the backlash over Labor's tax reforms is threatening to derail its pitch.

High tobacco excise has created a booming black market for cigarettes, which could cost the budget $65 billion by 2030. But the shadow treasuer isn't sure how to fix it.

Jim Chalmers' fifth budget focused on tax changes and housing has received a negative response from voters, according to exclusive new polling.

The government hoped breaking an election promise on capital gains tax would be a vote winner. The latest Capital Brief/DemosAU poll suggests otherwise.

The Opposition leader's personal standing is slowly improving in the polls. Yet the Coalition remains well behind One Nation.

Skills Minister Andrew Giles says the Coalition should put aside its obsession with migration and focus on policy, including in skills and training.

The Hawke-Keating era is remembered for consensus, but its most contentious reforms drew the kind of backlash facing the Albanese government today.

For decades, Labor and the Coalition built their political strategies around attacking each other. But One Nation's continued rise demands a change of tactics.

Labor frontbencher Ed Husic has broken rank on AUKUS, demanding a “plan B” and urging Australia to confront the “reality” that it may never receive the submarines it is entitled to under the agreement.

Labor backbencher Ed Husic broke ranks with the government to question the AUKUS submarine pact, amid growing disquiet over the agreement within the party's membership base.