Sky News host Andrew Bolt says Jew-hatred in Australia has now turned into “more than a crisis” for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

It's the start of the election year Anthony Albanese and Jim Chalmers were banking on and the reason why talk of an early poll, either late last year or at the very start of this year, was always misguided.

Mr Albanese, who was touring the key outer eastern Melbourne electorate of Aston on Thursday, brushed aside questions relating to the event — which one guest described on social media as a “four hours of exquisite cuisine and hospitality — as “just a dinner”.

Australians could head to the polls in a federal election within months. So when will it be and what are the key seats in the battle to lead the country?

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has promised $12.7 million for a theatre and arts centre in Launceston in the seat of Bass, $5 million for Nowra housing projects in Gilmore and $6 million for the “living city” project in Devonport, in the marginal seat of Braddon.

A disturbing note and powerful explosives strong enough to create a 40-metre blast radius were found inside a Sydney caravan police say was intended for a “mass casualty” anti-Semitic attack.

Australian leaders have been commemorating the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps but the political attacks continue.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has held a meeting of state and territory leaders to tackle a wave of antisemitic attacks across the country, the latest involving the suspected firebombing of a childcare center in Sydney. Albanese convened the ...

Anthony Albanese says his government has done “all we can” to reduce inflation, paving the way for the Reserve Bank to cut the official cash rate at its meeting in four weeks time.

Sydney restaurateur Judith Lewis couldn’t save the mezuzah, a framed parchment inked with Hebrew prayers, that was hanging in her family’s café when arsonists set it alight in the early hours one Sunday in late October.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton have shown differing views of the nation as the political leaders gave their annual Australia Day addresses.