Federal election 2025 LIVE updates: Labor’s $4000 home battery subsidy; Liberal candidate named in settlement; ‘Dad vote’ crucial for Albanese

The leaders are both starting the day on the east coast.

Albanese last night flew from the flooded plains of Longreach in western Queensland to Brisbane, where Labor is in a three-way battle with the Liberal Party and the Greens for the seats of Brisbane, Griffith and Ryan, currently all held by the Greens.

Dutton flew into Melbourne last night from Darwin, where his announcement – a plan to take back control of the Port of Darwin – was gazumped, first by the prime minister jumping in ahead to match the proposal in a hasty call to Darwin radio on Friday night, and then on Saturday, when a football the opposition leader kicked collided with a Channel 10 cameraman’s gear, cutting the man’s forehead.

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This morning, they will both reveal significant policies.

The prime minister will announce a plan to fund 30 per cent off home electric batteries under a Labor scheme to give thousands of dollars in taxpayer subsidies to any household that wants the power-bill reducing devices, regardless of their wealth.

The opposition leader will unveil his plan to cut foreign student numbers by 80,000, this is 30,000 fewer students than Labor’s caps, chiefly by targeting the big Group of Eight universities for deeper cuts.