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Labor's lead steady in Newspoll and gains in Resolve; how the polls moved during past campaigns

This week’s Newspoll, conducted April 27-30 from a sample of 1,538, gave Labor a 53-47 lead, unchanged since last week. Primary votes were 38% Labor (up one), 36% Coalition (steady), 11% Greens (steady), 5% One Nation (up two), 4% UAP (steady) and 6% for all Others (down three).

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ABC misses out on final leaders’ debate; key independents back call for robodebt inquiry – as it happened

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Morning mail: Labor unveils five key policies, CSIRO controversy, US aid package for Ukraine

Monday: Sydney airport’s environmental offsets have been bulldozed for a new defence facility. Plus: Jason Donovan and Kylie Minogue to return to Neighbours

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The Nationals have good election prospects - but this does not guarantee Joyce's leadership

While the Liberal and Labor parties each face several nail-biting contests, the Nationals have fewer immediate concerns in this federal election.

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More senior Australians to get cheaper health care and medication under $70m Coalition election pitch

The Coalition is promising to spend $70 million over four years to give an extra 50,000 older Australians access to the Commonwealth Seniors Health Card. Labor says it will match the commitment.

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Labor, coalition switch pitch to seniors

The two major parties are pitching directly to senior voters, promising an expansion to the health concession card and cheaper medications.

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Will the RBA lift the cash rate this week to counter inflation – or wait until after the election?

Analysis: The Reserve Bank of Australia finds itself in a strategic and political bind. Credibility is at stake

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Victorian food-bowl seat up for grabs in three-way fight over water and jobs

Irrigation issues dominate in Coalition-held Nicholls, the nation’s sixth-safest seat, with Liberals, Nationals and an independent all in the running

The Guardian - AU

View from The Hill: Labor strongly ahead in Newspoll and Resolve, as election race enters final half

Labor’s confidence will be boosted by two polls showing it holding a strong lead, as Anthony Albanese carried off a well-orchestrated party launch in Perth on Sunday.

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Katherine Deves, Noted Transphobe, Ran Out Of A Rally Bc A Journo Asked If She Was Transphobic

The Liberal Party's Warringah candidate Katherine Deves ran away from a journo at a campaign rally when they asked her if she was transphobic.

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Opposition leader offers Australia 'a better future' in campaign launch

Australian opposition leader Anthony Albanese on Sunday promised the country a "better future" in a campaign launch that was light on controversial reforms but drenched in unity and hope.

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Australian opposition targets inflation in campaign launch

Australia’s opposition party has officially launched its election campaign with an emphasis on cutting costs of living for voters as inflation surges to its highest rate in 21 years

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Anthony Albanese presents as a leader who wasn’t born thinking he was owed the prime ministership

He didn’t try to dominate the room at Labor’s campaign launch, but modelled a style of leadership less familiar after a succession of power players in Canberra

The Guardian - AU

Labor calls for cheaper, fairer Australia in election pledge

Federal election: Labor's Anthony Albanese outlines no one left behind.

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Anthony Albanese pledges to lower cost of PBS medicines and boost EVs at Labor campaign launch

Opposition leader also vows to make gender equity an objective of the Fair Work Act if ALP wins federal election on 21 May

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Coalition criticises Labor’s housing policy because government could profit from price rises

Scott Morrison argues Labor is ‘looking to make money out of this’ as Anthony Albanese pledges to cut cost of some mortgages by up to $380,000

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We use them all the time during election campaigns, but these words and phrases have meanings many of us aren't aware of

Do you know what pork-barrelling means? Or the origins of the word 'candidate'? You'd be surprised where some of these election phrases come from.

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Sport tops parties’ election spending promises in marginal seats, pork-o-meter reveals

Analysis shows one-third of Labor’s seat-specific announcements and 15% of Coalition’s are sport-related

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LNP preferences could be ‘deciding factor’ for One Nation in Queensland

Opponents say preference decision is a strategic move that could alienate moderate voters within the party

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Factcheck: is it fair to label candidates challenging Liberal moderates ‘fake independents’?

Many of the candidates vying for Liberal heartland seats share policy ideas and funding sources. But does that mean they aren’t truly independent?

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Activists Took An Artist’s Bust Of Scott Morrison Around Melb & Plot Twist, It Was Made Of Coal

Maybe he can bring this into Parliament next!

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The Wentworth Project: Allegra Spender's profile rises, but polarises

At the campaign’s halfway point in the highly contested seat of Wentworth, ‘teal’ candidate Allegra Spender has shifted - but polarised - soft voters’ views about her.

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Albanese and Morrison to face off in second leaders’ debate of federal election, Nine says

News of debate which will employ a panel of three journalists comes as Labor pledges robodebt royal commission and Coalition promises cheaper medicines

Reuters

Australian leader, facing election, decries China's interference

Australia's prime minister accused China on Saturday of "form", or a record, on interference in foreign politics, after his home minister said Beijing's unveiling of a security deal with the nearby Solomon Islands was timed to influence an election.

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Politicians are basking in the ‘thrill’ of fossil fuels, but this election is Australia’s last chance to reset our climate attitude

Despite being a top issue for Australians, climate action has been completely sidelined in favour of the total sham to expand gas and coal

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