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Voters in hotly contested Liberal-held seat rank climate and environment over economy, poll finds

Integrity also considered a key issue in poll of voters in Liberal-held seat of North Sydney, reflecting results of wider poll of marginal seats across country

The Guardian - AU

Labor switches to attack as stocks dive

Anthony Albanese has visited Brisbane to take aim at the prime minister's record, as Scott Morrison talks up defence jobs in Western Australia.

AAP

Anne Ruston defends past comments that Medicare ‘is not sustainable’ after PM names her as health minister if re-elected

Minister says Coalition is ‘not cutting Medicare’ as Labor accuses her of wanting ‘to take the universal out of universal healthcare’

The Guardian - AU

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Former Labor adviser Jill Bottrall dies after cancer battle, remembered by Mike Rann as 'comrade-in-arms'

Former SA premier Mike Rann leads tributes to formidable long-serving adviser Jill Bottrall, whose "untimely" death, at age 62, followed a cancer diagnosis.

ABC News

New Women's and Children's Hospital site could be shifted away from railyards, SA government says

As Women's and Children's Hospital staff are presented with a cardboard model of what their replacement building will look like, the new SA government says it could be forced to change the proposed site because of a $100 million budget blowout.

ABC News

Cruise ships return after two-year ban

Cruise liners are making a return to Australia's ports after a two-year absence triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic.

AAP

Federal election campaign: Week one on the road with Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Labor leader Anthony Albanese, in pictures

They say a week is a long time in politics, and that a picture tells a thousand words. But fear not, this brief collection of pictures aims to help you catch up on week one of the 2022 Federal Election campaign.

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Palmerston home owners and buyers look to the election to help ease cost-of-living pressures

In the satellite city of Palmerston near Darwin, thousands of residents are paying off a mortgage. Voters there want to see the next government drive down the other costs of living.

ABC News

The Greens and the challenge of governing a Melbourne council

The party won control of Yarra city council in 2020 but still grapples with realities of being in charge

The Guardian - AU

As the federal election nears, voters' frustration with major parties could shake things up

There are signs voters in key seats are turning away from the Labor and Liberal parties, in a trend one analyst likens to the election of Donald Trump to US president in 2016.

ABC News

United Australia Party 2022 Federal Election campaign launch at Sunshine Coast's Palmer Coolum Resort a marathon event

With more than an hour of videos and a folk band playing revised versions of Australian classics, the United Australia Party campaign launch on Queensland's Sunshine Coast becomes a marathon affair.

ABC News

AEC warns Australian political parties over ‘misleading’ postal vote applications

Forms sent back via political parties can be used to harvest personal information about voters

The Guardian - AU

Anthony Albanese says PM’s broken federal Icac promise ‘fails the laugh test’ as Chalmers defends Labor campaign

Shadow treasurer says Labor ‘match-fit’ for campaign and denies first week was a ‘shitshow’

The Guardian - AU

Australia PM vows to seek anti-corruption watchdog

Australia Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Saturday he would seek to establish an anti-corruption watchdog if re-elected next month, hitting out at the opposition Labor's plan.

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Newcastle Herald

From the vines to the mines, these are the issues that will decide the 2022 federal election in the Hunter

After the 2019 Federal poll, the electorate of Hunter, once considered a safe Labor seat, tumbled towards marginal territory, largely because of a word that still rules in the region and at the local ballot box - coal.

ABC News

Labor leader Anthony Albanese promises a national integrity commission by Christmas if Labor win the federal election

Federal Labor promises a vote on a national integrity commission by the end of this year if it wins the federal election. Prime Minister Scott Morrison has not matched the commitment.

The Guardian - AU

Scott Morrison backs Warringah candidate amid Liberal revolt – as it happened

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Newcastle Herald

The Pub Test: Meet our panel of Hunter voters tackling this year's federal election issues

Today we introduce our Pub Test panel - a small cross-section of the community who will give us their thoughts on the election campaign as it unfolds.

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The Guardian - AU

Australia now remembers Scott Morrison can campaign. But will voters forget the past three years?

The devastatingly effective Campaign Morrison was on show this week, as Anthony Albanese fluffed his first pop quiz

The Guardian - AU

Anthony Albanese commits to anti-corruption watchdog by end of 2022, if Labor wins election

Scott Morrison under pressure over integrity commission failure and $500,000 payout to ex-ministerial staffer

The Guardian - AU

George Christensen changes the dynamic for an already intense Senate race in Queensland

Analysis: Plenty of high-profile candidates are chasing rightwing votes, but only one will likely get a Senate seat

The Guardian - AU

Pork this way: which electorates have been promised the most in the election campaign?

On a per-voter basis, Coalition-held seats of Bass in Tasmania and Canning in WA given biggest spending commitments so far

Reason

Don't Expect Unions To Make a Comeback

Despite the recent win against Amazon and Joe Biden's full backing, Big Labor is fading because workers are making progress without unions.

AAP

PM won't budge on federal ICAC

As Labor pledges to legislate a federal corruption watchdog by year's end, the prime minister says he'll only introduce his version if it's unopposed.

The Conversation

The Wentworth Project: 'Soft' voters dislike Morrison but hesitate about Albanese

“Soft” voters who took part in focus groups in the Sydney seat of Wentworth this week were probably speaking for a vast number of Australians when they vented their disgruntlement with the two leaders who are fighting out this election.

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