Amid a spate of antisemitic attacks, the latest The Australian Financial Review/Freshwater Strategy poll showed law and order overtaking climate change as a top-three voter issue.

Displaying banned terrorist organisation symbols or performing a Nazi salute would result in at least a year behind bars under a coalition government.

The Coalition is pledging to introduce mandatory six year minimum sentences for terror offences in a bid “to stamp out anti-Semitism in our country” if it wins the upcoming federal election.

The Coalition wants tougher punishments for antisemitic acts, as Home Affairs spokesman James Patterson says: “things have only gotten worse”.

The minimum sentence for terrorism sentences would also be increased to six years, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton pledged as he renewed his attack on Anthony Albanese for failing to stop anti-Jew hatred and reopened a broader debate over mandatory sentencing.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says gov’t working to verify report that volunteer fight was killed by Russian forces.

Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says his government will take the “strongest action possible” if Russia has harmed an Australian who was taken prisoner while fighting for Ukraine

Amid reports of a Melbourne man killed after being captured by Russia while fighting for Ukraine, the Australian government on Wednesday summoned Russian ambassador and said if he will be harmed, it w

Oscar Jenkins, a former school teacher from Melbourne, was seen being struck by a Russian interrogator in a video posted in December. View on euronews

In the lead up to the last election a confident Anthony Albanese said Labor was "kicking with the wind". With little room for error, this time they will be kicking against it.

Anthony Albanese has donned an Akubra to tour Queensland, but the opposition leader will begin his de facto election campaign in Melbourne’s diverse suburbs.