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Australian election briefing: Scott Morrison bulldozes a kid while Anthony Albanese takes the stage

Wednesday: the best of Guardian Australia’s 2022 federal election coverage

The Guardian - AU

Not To Be Dramatic But The Club Mix Of The LNP’s ‘Dear Labor’ Ad Needs To Be Deleted From Earth

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Australian prime minister Scott Morrison flattens boy during football match

This is the moment Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison knocks over a boy during a friendly football game in Tasmania.

Evening Standard

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'A lazy cost-saving measure': the Coalition's efficiency dividend hike may mean longer wait times and reduced services

On the eve of the election, the Coalition has said it will impose a higher “efficiency dividend” on public service agencies over the next four years in an effort to cut public service spending and address the budget deficit.

The Conversation

Federal election voters in the safe seat of Barker feeling 'overlooked' by major parties

Days out from the federal election, residents of one of Australia's safest seats say they are being forgotten by the major parties due to a lack of contest among regional candidates.

ABC News

No forced public sector job cuts: minister

As the Liberal-National coalition pledges to find savings across the commonwealth public service, a senior minister says it won't involve forced job losses.

AAP

Labor promises to fund study exploring options for new home for Canberra Capitals

The University of Canberra Capitals welcome news a scoping study is set to be conducted into constructing a long-awaited facility for the team to call home.

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Australia's Opposition leader says he will travel to Quad if wins election

Australia's Opposition Labor leader Anthony Albanese said if he wins Saturday's general election he will travel to Tokyo for a meeting of the Quad group of the United States, Japan and India, scheduled just three days later.

Reuters

Budget repair starts with grants: Albanese

In an address to the National Press Club, Anthony Albanese has promised to return $750 million to the budget to pay back rising debt.

AAP

‘Savings’ from Australia’s public service efficiency dividend don’t add up – we should scrap it

The cumulative effect of unplanned cuts is to hollow out the core capacities of government

The Guardian - AU

Labor leader Anthony Albanese outlines budget savings measures in National Press Club address

Labor leader Anthony Albanese is promising to slash grants funds in an attempt to return $750 million to the Federal Budget, saying the opposition, if elected, would inherit "the worst set of books" since Federation.

ABC News

China seeks to reset relationship with Australia after election

Chinese diplomatic source says post-election period is ‘good opportunity’ to ease tensions with either re-elected Coalition or new Labor government

The Guardian - AU

How do the major parties compare on arts and cultural policy? We asked 5 experts

Mentions of arts and cultural policy have been thin on the ground this election. The Coalition has not released any specific arts policies during the campaign, and Labor’s arts policies have only just been announced in the last week before everyone heads to the polls.

The Conversation

Australia: Labor’s lead narrows in three new national polls

Polling analyst for Australia's The Conversation site, Adrian Beaumont, analyses three big polls showing some encouragement for Scott Morrison's incumbent Liberal-National coalition

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The Guardian - AU

‘Second miracle’ or historic win from opposition? No one knows how this election journey will end

The only certainty is when we look in the rearview mirror on Sunday morning, the Australian election result will all be crystal clear

The Guardian - AU

PM dismisses need for more measures to limit Covid deaths, suggesting Australians are dying with, not of, the virus

Scott Morrison says Australia is now ‘living with Covid’ as nation records one of the highest transmission rates in the world

The Guardian - AU

Real incomes shrink as wages growth of 0.7% in March quarter falls behind inflation

Labor says figures released by the ABS show gap between wage growth and cost of living increases in Australia is now the largest in more than two decades

The Guardian - AU

Australian election 2022 voters’ guide: everything you need to know

How to vote, when is election day, who can you vote for and what to do if you have Covid on polling day

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Reuters

Australia election polls show race tightening in final campaign stretch

Australia's national election has become too close to call, polls out on Wednesday showed, as the ruling conservative coalition narrowed the gap with the main opposition Labor Party, three days before the country decides on a new government.

The Guardian - AU

Australian election 2022: from anti-vaxxers to revolutionaries, what do the minor parties running for the Senate stand for?

Know what’s behind the innocent-sounding names of more than 30 minor and micro parties running this election, and find out what the lesser-known groups are after – before you cast your vote

The New Daily

Morrison says his ‘bulldozer’ approach has served Australia well

Scott Morrison says being a “bulldozer” has served Australia well during the pandemic – despite the country's surging pandemic death rate.

AAP

Future crises handled in same way: PM

Scott Morrison says Australians know he has the strength to make tough calls during a crisis, and that he will continue to do so during future events.

The Conversation

Labor's lead narrows in three new national polls; and seat polls galore

The final Resolve poll for Nine newspapers, conducted May 12-17 from a sample of 2,049, gave Labor just a 52-48 lead by 2019 election preferences, a two-point gain for the Coalition since last fortnight’s Resolve. By respondent preferences, Labor’s lead was narrower at 51-49, a three-point gain for the Coalition.

ABC News

No more federal funding pledged for Wyangala Dam's expansion, despite a major cost blowout

The federal government has refused to say whether it will commit the extra funding needed for one of Australia's largest infrastructure projects taking place in central western New South Wales.

AAP

More buying homes under Vic govt program

The Victorian Labor government's homebuyer scheme has helped more than 1100 families and individuals to buy their own home since it was launched in October.

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