Now that the campaign has officialy begun, Charlie Lewis explains what's worth paying attention to in the WA election.

Blaming the teals for the rate hike may be risky, reminding voters why Liberals were absent on the council vote: the NSW Liberals missed a deadline to hand in nomination forms last year.

"Advance received half a million from the Cormack Foundation, a Liberal Party fundraising group, according to AEC donations data released on Monday."

The breaches relate to the man's records being repeatedly mixed up with other individuals with the same name and birth date.

Qantas staff who Crikey spoke to commented that while there had been an increase in staff surveys, there had been less in the way of concrete changes.

In response to the BCA's “five big questions”, Crikey offers five big answers to how the lobby group could itself lift Australia’s prosperity.

"[Election betting] probably accounts for one-third of all group chat messages," one former Coalition staffer told Crikey.

"In MAGAland, everything is the fault of foreigners, even when Trump deliberately wreaks havoc on the long-suffering US consumer."

Adapting to climate change is really, really expensive. We’re still underestimating the challenge.

Hardline anti-China defence think tank ASPI went to Washington — then failed to do its homework and ended up misleading the auditor-general, writes Bernard Keane.

Many Labor MPs are on the record opposing mandatory sentences, including Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus, who previously said they “do not work and ... damage our system of justice”.

Peter Dutton has developed a habit of backflipping on key policies. As Bernard Keane writes, is this undermining his political momentum as we near the election?

Opinion | Like an undersea invertebrate, Australia can expand and contract its size and influence to suit the moment. But such spinelessness can be fatal, writes Polly Hemming.

Want to know how much our diplomats in LA spent on their flash new car?

Opinion | Walking away with a battle-tested blueprint that could see him succeed in the upcoming election? This surely surpassed Peter Dutton's wildest dreams, writes Benjamin Abbatangelo.

While ABC managing director David Anderson gave evidence in Federal Court, unionised staff held a meeting with almost 200 employees in solidarity with Antoinette Lattouf.

The PM will today announce a huge funding boost for Indigenous communities in the top end, and Donald Trump has doubled down on his plan to "take over" Gaza.

"It confirms what many of us have suspected: that management do not have our back," an ABC insider tells Crikey.

If Labor is performing a cautious balancing act ahead of the election, the Coalition has a simpler tactic: relentlessly criticising the Albanese government.

One of the technologies being tested to enforce the teen social media ban is made by a French company, which claims it can use hand movements to tell whether someone is an adult with 99% accuracy.