Australia election 2025 live: Albanese ‘stunned’ by Dutton’s ‘don’t know’ comment on climate change

The Australian Education Union (Aeu) has slammed the Coalition’s announcement to spend $260m to establish 12 new technical colleges at the same time as voting against permanent fee-free Tafe places.

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The shadow skills and training minister, Sussan Ley, detailed the plan on the ABC this morning. She said it would get students from year 10 to 12 into trades like construction and engineering, acting as a partnership between the government and not-for-profit organisations including independent schools.

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Aeu’s federal president, Correna Haythorpe, said Australia already had a “world-class network of technical colleges – they’re called Tafes”:

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Instead of reinvesting in the proven institutions we already have, Peter Dutton is proposing a handful of technical colleges that won’t deliver a single course for years and will drain public money away from where it’s needed most.

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Haythorpe said the proposal echoed a Howard-era technical college initiative in 2005, which gave tenders to church groups and for-profit companies. Funding was removed by the Rudd government in 2008.

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The Howard government’s technical college program was expensive and an unnecessary duplication of existing resources with colleges taking years to establish and some struggling to attract students … Tafe is the most cost-effective way for governments to deliver the vocational skills our country needs. It must be backed by governments to do so.

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Albanese also addresses that moment in last night’s debate when Peter Dutton wouldn’t say the impacts of climate change are getting worse. You can read more about that here:

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Albanese says he was “stunned” by the comments, and that the “science is very clear on climate change”:

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The fact that in 2025 you have someone running for prime minister who can’t say that the science is clear that climate change is real and it is happening … I don’t know what it takes to give a wake-up call to the Coalition.

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This morning, the Coalition has announced it will open up new tech colleges, to get students from years 10 to 12 learning trades like construction and engineering away from university or Tafe.

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Earlier on ABC News Breakfast, Sussan Ley, who also holds the shadow portfolio for skills and training, said the Coalition will invest $260m to establish 12 new technical colleges.

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The colleges will be partnerships between the government and not-for-profit organisations, including independent schools and industry, and Ley says they’ll work “inside the school system”:

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I don’t want to see kids getting in a bus and going to Tafe on Thursday afternoon and struggling to do something called VET in schools. I want to see schools that deliver this in a first class way.

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The opposition has said it believes fee-free Tafe places aren’t working and had voted against legislation to create more permanent free places last year.

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Ley is asked whether she’s “underselling” Tafe, when Tafe teaches different skills. She says the policy “sits alongside” Tafe:

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This policy sits alongside Tafe. This is a policy inside schools. But sometimes, we’re pushing our school kids out of the school setting to attend a Tafe course, often some suburbs away… You don’t want to make someone, a student at school, feel that they have to be pushed into university.

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Bridget McKenzie, who’s had to defend herself this morning after comments she made to the ABC yesterday, has appeared to make another foreign policy blunder this morning.

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On the Today show, McKenzie was asked by fellow panelist Paul Sakkal whether her comments meant, “broadly that our adversaries are more keen on having a Labor government? Because, in your view, they’re weaker?”

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McKenzie replied:

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Well, I think it’s pretty clear from President Xi’s public commentary that he finds Albo a very handsome boy. He’s been very complimentary about the prime minister…

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McKenzie’s mistake there was that it wasn’t president Xi who called Albanese a “handsome boy”, but China’s premier, Li Qiang, during Albanese’s visit to Beijing in 2023.

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Another sticking point of last night’s debate was climate change and Peter Dutton declining to say that the impacts of climate change are getting worse. When asked last night whether the impacts of climate change were getting worse, Dutton said: “I’ll let scientists pass that judgment.”

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I don’t know because I’m not a scientist and I can’t tell you whether the temperature has risen in Thargomindah [Queensland] because of climate change or the water levels are up.

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Hume was asked on RN Breakfast what the deal was with climate change and the Coalition, and said she personally believes in climate change.

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Well, I personally believe in climate change. I know that Peter Dutton does. He said that he listens to the scientists. So do I, that’s why we have a target for net zero, and that’s why we have a critical pathway to get there.

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Cannane asks whether the Coalition accepts that climate change is making natural disasters worse. Hume says:

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Well, if that’s what scientists are telling us, then that’s what we should believe. The question, though, really is not about what it is, whether cyclones are worse or whatever it is, but what is you’re going to do about it?

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We have a story this morning on new data showing that million-dollar houses are now the norm in five of Australia’s capital cities after Adelaide passed the seven-figure mark. It comes despite unaffordable costs and high interest rates that saw home prices grow at their slowest rate in two years and unit prices fall.

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Read the full article here:

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Plus, while we’re at it our Full Story podcast today is with the economist Saul Eslake and why he thinks the two main parties’ policies to ease the housing crisis could make it worse:

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Listen here:

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New data shows that gen Z men – aged between 13 and 28 – are more likely to hold traditional gender beliefs than older men, and far more so than their female peers.

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The e61 Institute has taken data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia survey, to see how attitudes towards traditional gender norms vary by age and gender from 2001 to 2023.

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A clear trend emerged – on average, beliefs in traditional gender roles have been declining across generations. But gen Z men are emerging as an exception.

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Erin Clarke, a research economist with the e61 Institute, said gen Z men reported more traditional beliefs than both millennials (1981–1996) and gen X (1965–1980) men.

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Meanwhile, women’s typical beliefs have declined steadily across generations, with younger cohorts consistently showing less belief in traditional norms.

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The data has pinpointed 2018 as the year young men’s views became significantly more traditional. Clarke said more research is needed to understand the drivers of this change.

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With the federal election approaching, this data is a reminder that “young voters” are not a uniform group. Whether beliefs about traditional gender norms translate directly into political preferences is unclear. Nonetheless, segmenting by age alone may mask important variations within a cohort. Gender is one dimension where differences are emerging.

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Krishani Dhanji here with you, many thanks to Martin Farrer for getting us started.

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As we’ve been bringing you, the leaders’ faced their second debate last night where we got an admission from Peter Dutton that he’d made a mistake claiming Indonesia had announced a request from Russia to base military aircraft.

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Early voting opens on Tuesday and with the Easter long weekend quickly approaching, it was a chance for both leaders to get their messages across before voters start putting in their ballots.

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Both leaders are in Sydney this morning. It’s now day 21 of the campaign – let’s get cracking!

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In his interview with The Australian, Peter Dutton said that he wanted to end bracket creep by indexing personal income rates – though he didn’t say when he would do it if he won government, calling it an “aspiration” rather than a firm promise.

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Indexing income tax means that tax brackets rise automatically over time rather than requiring new legislation.

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He said

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I want to see us move as quickly as we can as a country to changes around personal income tax, including indexation, because bracket creep, as we know, is a killer in the economy.

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It stifles productivity and ­entrepreneurialism and hard work, but we need to do it at a time where the budget can afford to do so. It would be an aspiration of our government to achieve that ­because it provides equity in the tax system and it is costly to do so.

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Much of the interview concentrated on the economy with Dutton invoking the Coalition’s Howard-Costello years by promising not to make major reforms until the budget was in better shape.

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The Howard government never promised taxation reform going into the 1996 election. They never promised a ­revolution around rewriting of the way in which the economy works.

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And he claimed the Coalition was a safer pair of hands for the economy.

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I think we will always do better than the Labor government when it comes to economic management.

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We demonstrated that we could do better than 10 years when we came to government after the Rudd-Gillard wrecking ball.

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We also did well in getting the budget back to balance, and we did well going into Covid. We saved the economy through jobkeeper and jobseeker, and we didn’t lock in that recurrent spend.

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Here’s a link to the piece but it is behind a paywall.

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Good morning and welcome to our live news blog. I’m Martin Farrer with the best of the overnight stories and then it will be Krishani Dhanji to take you through the day.

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Last night’s leaders’ debate saw Peter Dutton admit he made a mistake by wrongly claiming the Indonesian president had announced a proposal for Russia to base military aircraft in Indonesia. The Coalition leader also declined to state whether the effects of climate change were getting worse. Dutton’s close lieutenant Bridget McKenzie also admitted a blunder yesterday when she had to concede she was wrong to say Russia and China wanted Labor to win the election. More coming up.

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Dutton has attempted to fire up his flagging campaign with a big interview for The Australian newspaper. He gave what the paper called an “aspirational pledge” to index personal income tax scales in order to end the process of bracket creep. But he was vague on when this would happen, saying it would be “at a time where the budget can afford to do so”. He is likely to face questions on this today and of course we will be following all the action.

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Housing has been a huge issue in the election campaign so far and new data released this morning will only continue to fuel debate. A report by Domain shows that Adelaide has become the fifth capital city after Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Canberra to have a median house price of more than $1m.

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Dutton visits ‘make of break’ seat in Hunter region

Peter Dutton is in NSW’s Hunter region today in the seat of Paterson, where he’ll be speaking shortly.

There are a few seats there that will help make or break the election result for both major parties – including Hunter, which is held by Labor MP Dan Repacholi on a 4.78% margin, and Paterson, which is held by Labor MP Meryl Swanson on a 2.6% margin.

Hunter has bled red and voted Labor since the seat was created in 1910, while Paterson has swung back and forth.

The Hunter region is mining territory, and one of the seven locations the Coalition has earmarked to get a nuclear reactor in the future.

You can have a read of all the seats that will shape the results (including Hunter and Paterson) here:

What did Peter Dutton say on climate change last night?

In his press conference, the PM said he was “stunned” Peter Dutton wouldn’t say whether the impacts of climate change were getting worse.

This morning, Coalition senator Jane Hume said, “Well, I personally believe in climate change. I know that Peter Dutton does.”

If you missed it (or you just want to watch it again) can see the question and answer from last night’s debate here:

Education union slams Coalition technical college plans as taking away from Tafe

Caitlin Cassidy

The Australian Education Union (Aeu) has slammed the Coalition’s announcement to spend $260m to establish 12 new technical colleges at the same time as voting against permanent fee-free Tafe places.

The shadow skills and training minister, Sussan Ley, detailed the plan on the ABC this morning. She said it would get students from year 10 to 12 into trades like construction and engineering, acting as a partnership between the government and not-for-profit organisations including independent schools.

Aeu’s federal president, Correna Haythorpe, said Australia already had a “world-class network of technical colleges – they’re called Tafes”:

Instead of reinvesting in the proven institutions we already have, Peter Dutton is proposing a handful of technical colleges that won’t deliver a single course for years and will drain public money away from where it’s needed most.

Haythorpe said the proposal echoed a Howard-era technical college initiative in 2005, which gave tenders to church groups and for-profit companies. Funding was removed by the Rudd government in 2008.

The Howard government’s technical college program was expensive and an unnecessary duplication of existing resources with colleges taking years to establish and some struggling to attract students … Tafe is the most cost-effective way for governments to deliver the vocational skills our country needs. It must be backed by governments to do so.

Albanese says ‘Australia determines our own position’ on Palestinian statehood

The final question goes to the SBS’s Anna Henderson, who asks about French president Emmanuel Macron pressing ahead with plans to recognise Palestinian statehood at the UN in June.

Albanese says “Australia determines our own position”.

Last year Australia has backed in a United Nations resolution to recognise the “permanent sovereignty” of Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

Henderson also asks about a Perth-based doctor, who has been treating patients in Gaza, who wants to talk directly to the PM. Albanese says, “I don’t know the issue that you raise,” but says he’ll give it “consideration”. That’s not a commitment to meet with the doctor.

He throws in a final stab at Peter Dutton saying, “I do is give considered responses. I don’t shoot from the hip. You’re thinking of the other bloke.”

He ends the presser wishing everyone a happy Easter.

Chalmers on negative gearing modelling: ‘we get advice from the Treasurey on issues that are in the public domain’

To model or not to model, that is the question …

Shane Wright asks Chalmers to clear up whether he did ask Treasury for modelling on negative gearing and capital gains tax or if it was unsolicited.

Chalmers says negative gearing is “not something that we are proposing”, but that the government often gets advice on different issues from the department:

When it comes to the advice we get from the Treasury department, I said last year when you asked me lots of times … that from time to time we get advice from the Treasury on issues that are in the public domain.

We know that we rely heavily on the advice that we get there, whether it comes unsolicited or whether we ask for it, we rely heavily on it.

Asked again whether it was unsolicited, Chalmers says:

I said last year and I have said on a number of occasions now, that I sought a view. That’s different to commissioning modelling. The Prime Minister was asked about commissioning modelling. I sought a view.

He then rules out again any changes to those policies.

Albanese: ‘I have been underestimated from time to time’

The PM is asked why he was underestimated at the start of the campaign.

He’s also asked whether he thinks Peter Dutton is helping Albanese look better during this campaign.

I have been underestimated from time to time … I am captain of an extraordinary team. But the truth is that it’s hard to win a second term. You know, we’re trying to climb a mountain.

“Climbing a mountain” has been a favourite phrase of the PM over the last few days as we’ve ticked over the halfway point (in an effort to make it seem like he’s not taking the polls and headlines putting Labor in a stronger position for granted).

On whether the Coalition is helping his campaign: Albanese says “I’m not the commentator” but points to Dutton’s comments on Indonesia, his idea for three referendums (that was floated and then walked back), and Bridget McKenzie’s comments on China and Russia yesterday – that she also had to walk back.

Albanese on Paterson: ‘I don’t take him seriously’

Speaking of tax, another reporter asks the PM to confirm whether or not the government asked Treasury look at modelling changes to negative gearing and capital gains tax.

Albanese digs in and says it’s “normal process” for the public service to look at different policy options.

He then goes on the attack again, when asked about James Paterson who said Albanese had “lied” when he said the government had not commissioned that modelling. Albanese calls Paterson an “attack dog” for the Coalition:

Seriously. James Paterson will say anything. That’s his job. He piles in. I don’t take him seriously.

Albanese is pressed on whether he’d work with the Greens, who have been pushing for changes to negative gearing and CTG. He says, “I rule out negotiating with the Greens.”

Will the PM commit to indexing tax brackets?

The question is in response to comments from Peter Dutton in The Australian that he has an aspirational pledge to index personal tax – but “at a time where the budget can afford to do so.” So no commitment to when that would be, if ever.

Albanese turns the question back to Dutton’s promise to repeal the tax cut top-up legislation that was passed last month.

Well, I have never seen before in an election campaign an alternative prime minister or a prime minister say, “I’m going to increase income taxes if I’m elected for all 14 million taxpayers, but I have an aspiration to do something different about it down the track.” That makes no sense.

Albanese says their latest tax cut helps lower income earners and says the Coalition’s promises are “short-term”. The treasurer, Jim Chalmers, says the government is “not going down this path” because they’ve found a “better way” to return bracket creep:

We found a better, more responsible, more affordable way to return bracket creep.

Peter Dutton should be laughed off the stage for what he said in The Australian today.

Albanese avoids questions on if childcare fees will rise if workers paid more

Albanese is asked next about the Fair Work Commission’s recommendation of pay rises of up to 30% to hundreds of thousands of early childhood workers and health professionals. He says the question is “not right”, that the commission has found that workers are “undervalued”, and he promised to work with the commission, unions and childcare sector going forward.

[This is] a five-year process… this is an interim report about the gender pay gap. We know that no government has done more to close the gender pay gap than my government.

We’re working through the process and when we work through the process, that’s what you do – you work with the Fair Work Commission. We’ll continue to do that.

Albanese is asked further whether the government will ensure future childcare fees won’t rise as a result of these pay increases. There’s a bit of back and forth on this, with one reporter pointing out that the fee cap under the government’s worker retention payment finishes next year.

What we have done is make sure as part of the condition not only are we paying early educators more, but we’re making sure that families don’t pay higher fees.

Will the government guarantee that will continue down the track? Albanese says he’s answering questions about “what is happening right now”.

Albanese avoids question on Russian ambassador statement to attack Dutton

The first question goes to reports Russia’s ambassador to Jakarta said overnight that “Military cooperation is an integral part of the intergovernmental relations between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Indonesia”.

Albanese is asked how he reconciles that statement with the government’s denial that Russia wanted to establish a military base in Indonesia? Albanese slams Peter Dutton in response:

How do you reconcile the fact that the issue here is that Peter Dutton said that the Indonesian president had issued a statement saying that there would be a Russian air force base in West Papua. It was simply wrong…

There was no statement from the Indonesian president. No statement from the Indonesian defence minister, no statement from the Indonesian foreign minister.

Albanese and other senior cabinet ministers said yesterday there was no statement from Indonesia’s president, but would not say if there had been a request from Russia in the first place to base their military aircraft in Indonesia.

Albanese ‘stunned’ by Dutton comments on climate change

Albanese also addresses that moment in last night’s debate when Peter Dutton wouldn’t say the impacts of climate change are getting worse. You can read more about that here:

Albanese says he was “stunned” by the comments, and that the “science is very clear on climate change”:

The fact that in 2025 you have someone running for prime minister who can’t say that the science is clear that climate change is real and it is happening … I don’t know what it takes to give a wake-up call to the Coalition.

Albanese boosts Labor childcare policy and says Coalition want ‘free Tafe gone’

The prime minister is standing up in Brisbane this morning, in the seat of Bonner – a Liberal-held electorate sitting on a margin at the last election of 3.4%.

He’s at a childcare centre and starts on Labor’s cheaper childcare promise.

I want the move towards affordable childcare for all Australians to be part of the legacy of the government that I’m proud to lead. We have already made a substantial difference.

Childcare is another pillar of the government’s cost-of-living pitch to voters – particularly for parents and families struggling to meet the costs of putting their kids into care and those wanting to go back into work.

Albanese also brings up Tafe and the Coalition’s hints that they’ll get rid of free Tafe places.

What I have seen when I have gone in to Tafes is people studying construction, electrical, but also studying to be care workers, particularly women, but certainly not exclusively. People wanting to work in child care, in aged care, and in disability care and free Tafe is making a difference there and the Coalition have made it clear that free Tafe is gone if they are elected.

Climate Council offers experts to brief ‘out-of-touch’ Dutton on climate risks

There’s been some strong reaction to Peter Dutton’s comments on climate change in last night’s debate, where he wouldn’t say whether he thought the impacts of climate change were getting worse.

To recap, he said:

I don’t know because I’m not a scientist and I can’t tell you whether the temperature has risen in Thargomindah because of climate change or the water levels are up.

The Climate Council has said it’s “outrageous” for a senior political leader to say they “don’t know” the risks of climate change. The council’s CEO, Amanda McKenzie, said climate experts are “ready and willing to brief” Dutton.

It’s outrageous for a senior political leader to be so out of touch that they claim they ‘don’t know’ the risks Australians are facing. In 2025 there is no excuse for someone vying to be prime minister not to have educated themselves thoroughly on the science and impacts of the climate crisis.

The Climate Council released new data this week showing two million homes and businesses are now at moderate to high risk from worsening climate disasters. They say in Dutton’s electorate of Dickson, 3962 properties are at high risk of escalating damage from extreme weather.

McKenzie added:

Australians remember the black summer bushfires when then Liberal leader Scott Morrison, rejected repeated offers from experts to brief him on the risks of a catastrophic fire season … we hope Peter Dutton doesn’t also bury his head in the sand.