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If Labor wins the election, he is set to become the next federal treasurer. So who is Jim Chalmers?

This is the second in a two-part series on the major parties’ Treasury spokespeople. You can read Michelle Grattan’s profile of Josh Frydenberg here.

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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.

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State of the states: six politics experts take us on a trip around Australia

Over the next six weeks, Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Labor leader Anthony Albanese will dash around the country, trying to secure as many precious votes as they can.

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The Coalition says Labor plans to introduce a 'death tax' if it is elected. Is there any evidence?

Since 2019, the Coalition has been running a campaign to convince you Labor will introduce a "death tax" if elected. But is there any evidence?

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Settle in for a long grind: this federal election is going to be core, brutal Morrison

The PM kept it to the tightest of briefs as he launched Australia’s federal election campaign, even omitting Anthony Albanese’s name

The Guardian - AU

For three years the prime minister has schemed and strategised. Can Australians stomach any more?

If the problem with Anthony Albanese is that he’s an unknown quantity, then the problem with Scott Morrison is that we know him all too well

The Guardian - AU

Labor is careful not to write him off, but the pressure is all on Scott Morrison

The PM of 2019 could have won with this budget – he still can, but now he has three years of baggage to carry

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Michael Pascoe: Morrison’s gone, cynical Frydenberg trying to save the furniture

Scott Morrison is gone. Anthony Albanese will win the election. Josh Frydenberg is fighting to save some of the furniture. There, it’s been said.

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Kim Carr bows out after three decades as Labor senator for Victoria

Veteran cites death of Kimberley Kitching and ‘determined urgings’ from his children as reasons for his decision to step down

The Guardian - AU

‘They all play hard’: what happened when Kimberley Kitching came to Canberra?

After a six-year upper-house career, the Labor senator’s sudden death has prompted an outpouring of grief – and recrimination

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Housing, health on pre-election agenda

Anthony Albanese and Scott Morrison have been on the pre-election campaign trail making announcements on housing and health.

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Guardian Essential poll: voters mark Morrison government down on flood response

Separate Australian National University longitudinal survey suggests Coalition primary vote slumps to 32.2% with Labor in election-winning position

The Guardian - AU

Kimberley Kitching funeral: Husband praises Labor senator’s thoughtfulness and criticises ‘cantankerous cabal’

Delivering eulogy at wife’s funeral, Andrew Landeryou says she ‘deserved so very much better’ from internal party rivals

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Kimberley Kitching’s death and its aftermath are another glimpse into the routine brutality of Australian politics

This is fundamentally a story about contemporary politics. It isn’t pretty, because the arena can be hostile to humans

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‘Extraordinarily disrespectful’: Albanese hits back after Labor senators dubbed ‘mean girls’

Rebuke followed story in The Australian about alleged disagreements between Kimberley Kitching and a group of female Labor senators

The Guardian - AU

Australia bans imports of Russian oil, petroleum, gas and coal – as it happened

Australia follows lead of US and UK with Russia sanctions; ‘We want tradies to come to Queensland,’ premier says. This blog is now closed

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Kimberley Kitching mourned across political divide as stress of Labor preselection in focus

Former Labor leader Bill Shorten is questioning how much stress party politics and the preselection process put on his close friend Senator Kitching in the lead-up to her death.

The Guardian - AU

Labor senator Kimberley Kitching dies suddenly in Melbourne aged 52

Federal leader Anthony Albanese says ‘the Labor family is in shock tonight at the tragic news’ that Kitching had died of a suspected heart attack

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Australia records 77 deaths on deadliest day of pandemic; national medical stockpile activated – as it happened

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