What we learned today, Thursday 12 May
This morning was the morning after the night before. It started with the washup from the last debate of the campaign, and continued with the expected themes (wages etc) and the unexpected memes (loose unit etc). Here’s a swift guide to today’s news:
- Jobs, jobs, jobs ... or wages, wages, wages? The prime minister, Scott Morrison, and Labor leader, Anthony Albanese, continued the (relatively civil) conversation from the debate.
- It’s a small world. Morrison ran into a former Solomons Island high commissioner – and he would not be pacified.
- A new analysis found female candidates have been put in precarious positions.
- The teal wave kept on rolling in. How effective is the independents’ strategy?
- Adam Morton factchecked the Labor and Liberal climate change claims.
- And a reminder that flu season is here, while Covid cases are still rising.
Amy Remeikis will be here early to get your day off to the best start possible, then it’ll be the weekend (and the Liberal party campaign launch) and before you know it, we’ll be in the last week before the election. It feels like anything could still happen. Stay tuned!
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The former Labor prime minister Kevin Rudd has shared the video of that encounter I mentioned earlier. He tells a Sky News journalist he’s a “tool of Murdoch”, who will “do anything Murdoch tells you to” (and he says he’s not gunning for a gig with a potential future Labor government):
My personal encounter with the Murdoch media today out campaigning with Dr Michelle Ananda-Rajah @rajah_mich, Labor candidate for Higgins. The Murdoch mob don’t like it when you dish it back to them. Have a look. Always a pleasure to see you, @SimoLove. pic.twitter.com/knEoQJrrA0
— Kevin Rudd (@MrKRudd) May 12, 2022
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