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Australia election 2025 live: AEC breakthrough in anti-Spender pamphlet investigation; Labor reveals men’s health policy | Australia news newsthirst.


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Martin Farrer

Good morning and welcome to our live news blog. I’m Martin Farrer with the top overnight stories and then it’ll be Krishani Dhanji with the main action.

We have an exclusive story this morning reporting that Indonesia’s ambassador met senior Australian diplomats on Tuesday – and on the same day Anthony Albanese accused Peter Dutton of damaging the bilateral relationship over claims Russia was seeking a military presence in the region.

After spruiking his plans to boost defence spending yesterday, Peter Dutton turns to the problem of domestic violence today as he announces a suite of policies to tackle the scourge. He will say that a Coalition government would criminalise the use of mobile phones to threaten and track partners and create a national register to allow police to share information about violence offenders.

Today Labor is pushing its policies to improve men’s health with a $32m investment boost – more on that soon. And the AEC has identified the person who sent thousands of unauthorised campaign pamphlets threatening to “expose” the independent MP Allegra Spender and “what she stands for”. More on that too coming up.

Labor has outspent the Coalition on television advertising, figures out today reveal, but Clive Palmer’s Trumpet of Patriots party has spent more than everyone on YouTube, where he has forked out more than $4m. The Gaza war will be a factor in many federal election contests such as Tony Burke’s south-west Sydney seat of Watson where Muslim voters “sick of being ignored” are expected to make their anger felt.

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