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View from The Hill: Labor holds 53-47% lead but Albanese takes a hit in Newspoll

Labor has clung to its 53-47% two-party lead in the latest Newspoll, but Anthony Albanese’s ratings have taken a knock after his error-prone first week of the campaign.

The Conversation

He's the treasurer who may become the next leader of the Liberal Party. So how high can Josh Frydenberg fly?

`This is the first in a two-part series on the major parties’ Treasury spokespeople. You can read Carol Johnson’s profile of Jim Chalmers here.

The Conversation

Alexander Downer features in UK video promoting Britain’s ‘new plan for immigration’

Former Australian foreign minister says ‘no one will end up being able to reside in the UK if they pay a people smuggler’, in UK Home Office video

The Guardian - AU

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Anthony Albanese shifts campaign focus to perceived failings of Morrison government

Labor seeks to pressure Coalition over Medicare, as aspiring Liberal heath minister says party ‘absolutely guarantee Medicare in law’

The Guardian - AU

Scott Morrison says he misspoke after claiming the JobSeeker unemployment payment had risen to $46 a week

The Prime Minister clarifies his comments about the increase to the JobSeeker rate, after incorrectly claiming the unemployment benefit had risen to $46 a week since the last federal election.

ABC News

Australian leader warns of a resurgence in asylum seekers

Australia’s prime minister warns that thousands of asylum seekers will attempt to reach the country by boat if the opposition party wins elections on May 21

The Independent UK

Factcheck: is there any truth to scare campaigns about the cashless debit card and retiree tax?

Coalition and Labor are targeting older Australians with advertising featuring grave warnings for pensioners

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Australia PM vows no cuts to universal healthcare if re-elected

Prime Minister Scott Morrison denied on Monday that his government would make cuts to Australia's universal healthcare scheme if he is re-elected next month, after the opposition Labor Party raised doubts over its future.

Reuters

Outdoor visits could ease pain of COVID precautions in aged care

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Newcastle Herald

Morrison pledges WA defence industry jobs

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has used an election campaign visit to Western Australia to announce a $121 million patrol vessel investment.

AAP

Yes, Scott Morrison Visited Sick Kids In Hospital Without A Mask ‘Cos Photo Ops Are More Important

Prime Minister Scott Morrison was not wearing a mask when he visited kids at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne on Good Friday.

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How Fitzy crashed ScoMo's big party

Topics: Fitzy crashed the party and the memory bank.

Newcastle Herald

Federal ICAC and integrity in politics shape as key election fights

We're only one week into the election campaign, and broken promises are already looming large.

Newcastle Herald

Morrison campaigns on border security; 10 Covid deaths – as it happened

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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

ABC News

Who wins when politics and religion collide, particularly during a federal election?

Ever since Scott Morrison invited TV cameras to watch him at a church service, there has been a spotlight on the role of religion in secular Australian politics and the influence of the 'Christian vote'. But church leaders say to brand Jesus a conservative is to miss his radical ideas.

AAP

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.

The Guardian - AU

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’

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Rachelle Miller, who accused Alan Tudge of bullying during relationship, makes historical claim against another Liberal MP

The former government staffer who accused senior Liberal MP Alan Tudge of abusing her while in a consensual relationship, has alleged another Liberal politician sexually harassed her more than a decade ago.

The Guardian - AU

NSW Liberals should decide whether Katherine Deves is disendorsed, Marise Payne says

Foreign minister says she has made it ‘explicitly clear’ she does not agree with comments made by Warringah candidate

ABC News

Women's Minister Marise Payne refuses to say if Warringah candidate Katherine Deves should be dumped

Women's Minister Marise Payne refuses to say whether she thinks Katherine Deves, who has been forced to apologise multiple times for controversial comments about transgender people, should be removed while fellow Liberal senator Jane Hume describes her as an "excellent" candidate.

ABC News

Anne Ruston to become health minister if Coalition re-elected, no details on her replacement until after election

Prime Minister Scott Morrison announces South Australian senator Anne Ruston will take over as health and aged care minister if the Coalition is re-elected, but says he will not decide who will take her Women's Safety and Social Services roles until after the election.

AAP

PM promotes Ruston to health portfolio

Labor leader Anthony Albanese said the appointment of Social Services Minister Anne Ruston as health minister is a sign of Medicare cuts to come..

The Guardian - AU

Ruston will ‘take the universal out of universal healthcare’, Labor says – as it happened

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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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