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Aged care: What the major parties are promising this election

Aged care worker Glen O'Driscoll says staff are overworked and worn out. The Coalition has promised billions since the royal commission, but Labor is making aged care an election issue.

ABC News · Apr 27, 2022

Labor promises crackdown on multinational tax avoidance would bring almost $2 billion in revenue

Labor has laid out its economic plan for the next term, saying it will focus on lifting wages, cutting wasteful spending and a crack down on multinational tax avoidance that would add almost $2 billion to government coffers.

ABC News · Apr 27, 2022

Gamba grass becomes federal election issue as Labor and Coalition pledge funds to manage weed

National parks rangers welcome election pledges to combat gamba grass in what feels like an uphill battle.

ABC News · Apr 27, 2022

Federal election: Labor rubbishes Morrison's claims of a 'sneaky carbon tax' as scare campaign

Scott Morrison has said Labor's net zero plan is an attempt to revive the carbon tax. In response, Labor campaign spokesman Jason Clare said this was a sign the Liberal Party was getting desperate.

ABC News · Apr 26, 2022

Morrison, Dutton go hard on national security - but will it have any effect on the election?

Elections held in the shadow of war or overarching national security concerns tend to favour incumbents.

The Conversation · Apr 26, 2022

Government under pressure to help Aboriginal families after ‘predatory’ funeral insurer’s collapse

Coalition of NGOs says governments knew about Youpla’s misleading conduct for decades and ‘did nothing to prevent it’

The Guardian - AU · Apr 26, 2022

Labor defends agricultural visa scheme as farmers brace for minimum wage rise

Coalition says proposal would reduce workforce but opposition insists only changes are to source country of recruited workers

The Guardian - AU · Apr 26, 2022

Mary Lou McDonald accuses Government of punishing people who burn turf to heat homes

It’s understood Minister Foley expressed that the Government wasn’t communicating effectively on the matter.

Irish Mirror · Apr 26, 2022

Morrison silent on ‘red line’ for China as Labor continues attack over handling of the Pacific

Coalition wants focus on the economy but prime minister remains mired in fallout over Solomon Islands

The Guardian - AU · Apr 26, 2022

Scott Morrison is setting up another fake fight on a carbon ‘tax’

With Australia’s lived experience of global heating, you would think we’d have moved past grown men staging hyperbolic encounters with invisible things

The Guardian - AU · Apr 26, 2022