What we learned today, Tuesday 12 April
There were dogs and dog whistles, accusations of lies and ants on fire. That was day two of the 2022 election campaign. Today’s highlights included:
- Fact check: There may be 1.3m new jobs, but will they be of the Coalition’s making?
- Labor will not, after all, commit to increasing jobseeker.
- Prime minister Scott Morrison struggled to explain the status of his Schrodinger’s minister.
- Similarly, deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce struggled with the status of the Darwin port funding.
- Morrison looked pretty happy to keep referring to Labor leader Anthony Albanese’s numerical gaffe, while Labor accused the federal government of lying about their costings.
- The independents are worried that Morrison is dog whistling over the trans sport issue.
- AFL chief Gillon McLachlan is set to stand down.
- And then there are the fire ants.
And so, good night, don’t let the fire bugs bite. See you back here tomorrow!
On concerns prime minister Scott Morrison preparing to weaponise trans issue: Guardian Australia’s Daniel Hurst and Paul Karp report:
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