Peter Dutton says a $2 billion promise of support to Pacific infrastructure projects should not be seen as an attempt to gain a strategic edge over China.
Ben McKay
The prime minister has signalled support for calls to ban unsolicited campaign text messages such as those from Clive Palmer's Trumpet of Patriots party.
Andrew Brown and Tess Ikonomou
After more than three decades of crunching the numbers on polling night, ABC election guru Antony Green is preparing to step out of the spotlight.
Andrew Brown
Peter Dutton has ruled out forming a minority government with One Nation if the coalition wins the election, after a surge in support for the far-right party.
With support for One Nation rising in the polls, Pauline Hanson is confident the controversial minor party will help decide the federal election outcome.
The prime minister has basked in the attention of curious locals and friendly pooches in a safe Labor seat but not everyone was happy to see him.
Kat Wong
The opposition leader's electorate office has been vandalised and protesters in hazmat suits interrupted his media event on a bumpy day on the campaign trail.
Jacob Shteyman
The "quiet Australians" who delivered a Liberal predecessor an unlikely election victory could hand the party another unexpected poll win, Peter Dutton insists.
Dominic Giannini and Andrew Brown
Anthony Albanese has been confronted on the campaign trail by an independent candidate over his government's response to Israel's violence in Gaza.
After a bike lane barrier stalled Peter Dutton's campaign bus, the opposition leader lashed Labor for preferencing the "Jew-hating" Greens.
The opposition leader has dodged questions on whether he's across voters' cost-of-living pressures as the election campaign enters its final days.
Andrew Brown, Dominic Giannini and Kat Wong
Canada's prime minister has paused his election campaigning after a car ploughed into a crowd at a festival in Vancouver, killing at least nine people.
Promit Mukherjee and Allison Lampert
Less than a week from polling day, Anthony Albanese might have had the last laugh as undecided voters declare him winner of the campaign's final debate.
Peter Dutton has urged party backers to ignore certain media outlets - which he branded "hate media" - in the final push to election day.
Tess Ikonomou
Community support for a well-regarded country candidate appears to be strong in Australia's newest electorate, but polling suggests she won't win the seat.
Aaron Bunch
A first-term government has not been kicked out of office for almost a century but Peter Dutton is hoping comparisons with the 1931 election will resonate.
Andrew Brown and John Kidman
Labor is ahead in two ultra-tight seats, including one at the centre of a heated salmon farming debate, polling shows a week out from the federal election.
Ethan James
A marginal seat is the battleground for a former MP staging a comeback bid and a sitting member who is its first Labor MP since 1949.
Abe Maddison
Better health care under Labor and an end to soaring living costs under the coalition are the key messages being pushed in the election campaign's dying days.
Poppy Johnston and Tess Ikonomou
The prime minister has painted the opposition as a regression to the past while offering his party up as having the solutions for the future.
Peter Dutton has talked tough on crime in a visit to the Top End, after making housing- and healthcare-related election promises in Queensland.
Rural voters want a national plan that considers the millions of people living outside cities, with a new poll predicting a political shake up in the bush.
Stephanie Gardiner
A change to preference flows could put Peter Dutton in re-election danger, despite a two-party preferred lead in his marginal seat of Dickson, polling shows.
Anthony Albanese has urged Labor loyalists to keep their foot on the gas as the campaign enters its final stretch.
