Federal election 2025 LIVE updates: Dutton spruiks foreign student cuts to get young Australians into homes; Albanese campaigns on $4000 home battery subsidy

Treasurer Jim Chalmers is speaking from the Brisbane rally, declaring his home state is crucial for the election.

“There is no more important [electorate] than Griffith,” he said to cheers.

“I know that we are Queenslanders because we are robust and resilient, we are practical and pragmatic.”

Chalmers continued his speech by promoting Labor’s economic policies but acknowledged the world was taking a turn for the worst.

“The global outlook is so uncertain, dark clouds gather in the global economy, just as the sun has broken through here at home, our economy is turning the corner when the world is taking a turn for the worse,” he said.

“So there could not be a more dangerous time to double back and retrace our steps to risk it all with the lower wages, the higher taxes and the secret cuts pitched up by our opponents.”

Brisbane’s Labor members have poured into the Greens-held electorate of Griffith today, where the prime minister will deliver his first major speech of the campaign to a rally at the Queensland State Library, known as The Edge.

The party is hoping that is exactly what this move gives it as it campaigns to win back the seat from Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather.

The 200-strong crowd will hear Treasurer Jim Chalmers and Albanese speak, as the party launches its discount scheme for home batteries, a policy lobbed directly at the upwardly mobile voters and environmentally conscious voters in inner-city seats.

As Albanese targets Max Chandler-Mather’s seat of Griffith, national affairs editor James Massola has broken down key battlegrounds that will help Albanese or Dutton win the election.

This is not just a battle between Labor and the Coalition for the bellwether seats, but a campaign that will be fought on several fronts.

From the affluent inner city to the hardscrabble suburbs, and from the resources-rich est to the far-flung regions, these are the battlegrounds on which the fiercest contests of the 2025 election will be fought – and could decide the fate of Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton.

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Albanese is in the election battleground of Brisbane this morning, holding a campaign rally as Labor seeks to claw back three seats Labor and the Liberals lost to the Greens in 2022.

Brisbane is held by the Greens’ Stephen Bates, who defeated Liberal Trevor Evans in 2022.

Slightly more than a stone’s throw across the river from the rally in the Griffith electorate, Greens’ housing spokesman Max Chandler-Mather pipped Labor’s Terry Butler to the post at the last election.

He has tormented the government ever since, targeting disgruntled renters and home buyers in the inner-city electorate.

Albanese’s event today, his first of the campaign, could be dubbed the “Get Max” rally, where the prime minister will spruik his pledge to cut the price of home batteries to appeal to environmentally conscious voters.

Wong has gone on the attack against the Coalition over its plan to deal with Trump’s tariffs, saying it didn’t understand how the Trump administration had changed since its first term.

Questioned on ABC’s Insiders if Australia was rewarding a bullying administration, Wong said the Coalition had failed to understand how to appropriately deal with the US.

Earlier on the program, Littleproud criticised Labor for failing to get a phone call with Trump.

“What is not the way to deal with President Trump is to be prepared to put things on the table which are key of who we are and what it means to be Australian,” Wong said.

“This is the problem with Peter Dutton’s stubborn insistence at trying to do a deal at any costs. We will not compromise on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme. We will not compromise on Australia’s biosecurity.

“One of the things … that struck me when I was listening to him [Littleproud] was they [the Coalition] don’t understand the extent to which the world has changed. They don’t understand the extent to which the second Trump administration is not the same as the first.

“The second Trump administration regrets exemptions it gave and has not given exemptions to anyone. And yet you still have Peter Dutton and his colleagues, you know, stubbornly insisting that they could do a deal at any cost and recklessly insisting we should play defence into a trade dispute.”

Foreign Minister Penny Wong says Australia is diversifying economic relationships as the international rules-based order is under pressure after US President Donald Trump’s global tariffs.

Pressed on ABC’s Insiders over whether there was still a rules-based order now that Trump had imposed his “America first” tariffs on every country, Wong said:

“Well, look, of course, it still exists. But it is under pressure. We’re realistic about this.

“So the question is, how do you navigate that? And part of how you navigate that is by investing in your own economic resilience and by diversifying your economic relationships, which has been such an important part of what this government has done for the last three years.”

Littleproud has told ABC’s Insiders the reason the Coalition has not released details on its gas policies is because it wants it to come out when people are most engaged with the election.

“As one of your panellists beautifully articulated last week, not too many people have been engaged. We’re going to announce our policies … when it’s right and we get the best bang for buck,” he said.

Asked about billionaire Gina Rinehart’s concern and desire to have more detail, Littleproud said:

“Look, industry are about making money, and we want them to make money.”