As the 2025 federal election approaches, news.com.au brings you the latest political updates on the Australian Labor Party and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

Labor has been accused of reigniting its "Mediscare" campaign ahead of the federal election with a misleadingly edited attack ad in which opposition leader Peter Dutton declares "Medicare is dead".

The new legislation, in which Albanese agreed to include draconian mandatory jail terms, is a serious threat to anti-genocide ...

A heated confrontation in the corridors of Parliament House has ramped up the dispute between the Albanese government and the ...

A campaigner against domestic violence claims she was promised $20,000 for her organisation. When she didn’t get it, she had ...

The Labor Party has emerged as the biggest beneficiary of cash and gifts received from external entities ahead of the upcoming federal election.

New AEC data reveals alcohol and gambling companies donated $2.5M to Australia’s major parties, sparking fresh calls for a ...

The fiery exchange followed laws passed in the Senate last night, where Labor and the Coalition reached a deal to cap ...

The Albanese Labor Government is building Australia's future by investing in training, with new data showing there have been more than 3,700 ...

Labor appears set to retain the Victorian seat of Werribee, despite a significant decline in voter support in its traditional stronghold in Saturday’s by-election.

As all sides count down to the start of the election campaign, a possible vote on changes proposed by the government has been ...

That points to a further collapse of Labor’s previous working-class electoral base, yet the main opposition Liberal Party picked up ... time parties of rule of Australian capitalism fell below ...