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PM all smirk and smear in debate: Albanese

Both parties have gone on the attack following Sunday night's second leaders' debate, as pre-polling starts across the country.

AAP · May 8, 2022

Labor to announce scholarship plan for high-achieving students to become teachers

Policy will aim to double number of high achievers studying education and include places for qualified professionals to retrain

The Guardian - AU · May 8, 2022

Unattributed attack ads targeting Labor on Chinese-language WeChat fuel fears of election misinformation

Electoral commission says they are not monitoring the social media platform as marginal seats with Chinese-Australian populations hang in the balance

The Guardian - AU · May 8, 2022

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Anthony Albanese and Scott Morrison in fiery debate over anti-corruption commission, national security and cost of living

Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese's second head-to-head sees the men get into heated exchanges on national security, anti-corruption commissions and climate change.

ABC News · May 8, 2022

View from The Hill: Labor widens leads in Newspoll and Ipsos, as pre-polling starts

The opposition has increased its winning margins in both Newspoll and the Australian Financial Review’s Ipsos poll, as Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese clashed in a shouty, fractious debate on Sunday night.

The Conversation · May 8, 2022

Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese clash over cost of living and integrity in messy leaders’ debate

There are heated moments in the second leaders’ debate of the federal election but Channel Nine’s audience fails to find a clear winner

The Guardian - AU · May 8, 2022

Labor seizes large lead in Newspoll and Ipsos; impact of how to vote cards is exaggerated

This week’s Newspoll, conducted May 4-7 from a sample of 1,523, gave Labor a 54-46 lead, a one-point gain for Labor since the previous week’s Newspoll. Primary votes were 39% Labor (up one), 35% Coalition (down one), 11% Greens (steady), 5% One Nation (steady), 4% UAP (steady) and 6% Others…

The Conversation · May 8, 2022

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Under-threat regional papers offered $10m lifeline

Regional newspapers sounding the alarm over a devastating price hike have been offered a lifeline.

Newcastle Herald · May 8, 2022

Labor promises cash payments to entice high achievers to study teaching

Labor promises to pay students who get an ATAR of 80 or over up to $12,000 a year if they decide to study an education degree, as part of its plan to boost teaching standards and reduce teacher shortages.

ABC News · May 8, 2022

Sharma warns of teal threat to Liberals

Independent candidate Allegra Spender says she is willing to work with both sides of politics as she vies to oust Wentworth's Liberal MP Dave Sharma.

AAP · May 8, 2022

Rivals face off in second leaders’ debate – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU · May 8, 2022

Greens to call for young voter 'uprising'

Greens Leader Adam Bandt says young people have to fight for their future as the party turns to first-time voters to strengthen their foothold in Canberra.

AAP · May 8, 2022

Prime Minister Scott Morrison says schools not expelling gay students, doubles down on religious discrimination bill

Prime Minister Scott Morrison says gay students are not being expelled from religious schools, doubling down on re-introducing the failed religious discrimination bill without extra protections for gay and transgender students.

ABC News · May 8, 2022

Scott Morrison defends delaying protections for LGBTQ students as party tensions resurface

Liberal backbench MP Katie Allen reiterates protecting gay and trans students is ‘not negotiable’

The Guardian - AU · May 8, 2022

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AAP · May 8, 2022

Albanese defends costings release delay

Anthony Albanese has defended the economic and policy choices Labor is taking to the election during a tour of John Howard's old seat of Bennelong.

The Guardian - AU · May 8, 2022

LNP candidate in Queensland referred to federal police for allegedly falsifying address

AEC has also referred reports of hundreds of fake signs falsely suggesting independents were members of the Greens to the Electoral Integrity Assurance Taskforce

The Guardian - AU · May 8, 2022

Labor will announce new measures to close gender pay gap in election campaign’s final fortnight

Tanya Plibersek says party would look at introducing superannnuation on paid parental leave ‘when we can afford to’

Newcastle Herald · May 7, 2022

Lobby group tells parties to keep the money flowing

The Committee for the Hunter says some campaign commitments have hit the mark, but it wants movement on more long-overdue projects and programs.

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The Guardian - AU · May 7, 2022

Albanese says Labor will match Coalition’s IVF pledge ahead of second leaders’ debate – as it happened

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ABC News · May 7, 2022

Biloela's Tamil family inspires art exhibition as town's residents take views to the ballot box

It's now the second election where the fate of the Tamil asylum-seeking family is debated as part of the campaign. But what does it all mean for locals in Biloela?

ABC News · May 7, 2022

Labor and the Country Liberal Party running hard to land Northern Territory seat of Lingiari

Whoever voters decide will inherit Lingiari from retiring MP Warren Snowdon also takes on some of the nation's toughest challenges – and the hopes of residents that they'll urgently seek out new solutions.

ABC News · May 7, 2022

Calls to increase Jobseeker and rent assistance grow as cost of living surges ahead of federal election

With the election throwing the spotlight on cost of living pressures, welfare groups say promises made so far in the campaign amount to "window dressing" for those living on the poverty line.

The Guardian - AU · May 7, 2022

Dissent and disaffection in the mega mansions and battler suburbs of Boothby

Change is in the air in the blue-ribbon South Australian seat. Will the status quo prevail or will dissatisfaction with both major parties hand it to an independent?

The Guardian - AU · May 7, 2022

Missing in action: five issues the major parties are avoiding in the 2022 federal election

Key areas such as conservation, the arts, science and education have been neglected in a narrowly focused campaign

The Guardian - AU · May 7, 2022

‘They will do nothing to fix it’: why the NBN still matters to many voters

Unlike in 2010 and 2013 when the NBN rollout was a hot topic, it is yet to hit the headlines this election, but it remains front of mind for some

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