Election 2026: Labour trusted to manage almost every top issue better than National

The opposition’s $200 million pledge to boost the state’s firefighting fleet comes as Labor’s relationship with the CFA took a major hit after the government doubled an emergency services tax.

Politicians should always be scrutinised and held to account because scrutiny is how democracy corrects itself. But scrutiny and intimidation are not the same thing.

Jamie Foxx has become a regular at revered restaurant Maison Batard, and it’s not just the selfies fellow diners have that prove it.

An urgency is building that an unpopular Labor government must define itself clearly and perhaps even stake out some new direction.