Ellen Ransley

1 week ago | thewest.com.au | Ellen Ransley |Jackson Hewett

Labor and the Coalition have shirked questions about how to define “sustainable” house price growth and failed to provide certainty on supply-side targets in a heated debate. Going head-to-head at the National Press Club, Housing Minister Clare O’Neil and her Coalition counterpart Michael Sukkar on Wednesday traded barbs, accusing each other of overseeing the housing crisis while talking up their respective policy offerings.

1 week ago | thewest.com.au | Ellen Ransley

The Prime Minister and his foreign and defence ministers can’t say whether Russia made a request to station its warplanes in Indonesia, as national security returns to the election spotlight. Australia scrambled to verify reports by a reputable defence publication on Tuesday that Moscow had asked Jakarta if it could station military aircraft at the Manuhua Air Force Base at Biak Numfor, about 1400km north of Darwin.

1 week ago | thenightly.com.au | Ellen Ransley

First-home buyers were central to the Federal election campaigns of Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton on Monday as they both started week three selling their latest headline policies. The Prime Minister on Sunday unveiled a plan to build 100,000 new homes over five years to address supply and allow many to buy with only a 5 per cent deposit, while the Opposition Leader announced a mortgage tax deduction scheme to help first-home buyers with affordability.

1 week ago | thenightly.com.au | Ellen Ransley

Anthony Albanese has been forced to defend his new housing policies from overnight criticism, but has fallen short of pledging prices would go down under Labor. The Prime Minister was at a housing construction site in Adelaide on Monday morning, where he was spruiking his announcement to extend the five per cent first home-buyer guarantee scheme and spend $10b to build 100,000 new homes to house them.

2 weeks ago | thenightly.com.au | Ellen Ransley

Anthony Albanese has defended his approach to US President Donald Trump, warning against “dialling things up to 11” in a veiled swipe at his own opponent, as the world grapples with whiplash from the latest developments in the tariff saga. Overnight, Mr Trump announced a 90-day pause for countries hit by higher tariffs and authorised a lower rate of ten per cent - the same rate which the US has already imposed on Australia - during negotiations.