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Good morning, early birds. Independent candidate for Kooyong Monique Ryan is taking the AEC to court because around 200,000 COVID-positive voters may not be able to vote, and Prime Minister Scott Morrison is going hard on Labor’s costings. It’s the news you need to know, with Emma Elsworthy.

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Raiding super for housing is not the answer to housing affordability. Liberal governments have known that for decades

The Coalition has pushed super for housing before, and decided not to do it. The reasons haven’t changed in 25 years.

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Scott Morrison refuses to say if he’ll stand down if he loses election

Scott Morrison has refused to say if he'll stand down if he loses Saturday’s election after spending the day defending a controversial housing plan.

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The Coalition Wants To Let You Use Your Super To Buy A Home — Here’s Why That’s A Shit Idea

The Coalition has admitted its new policy to allow first homebuyers to access their super to pay for a house would jack up house prices.

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Who thinks raiding super is a bad idea? Many senior Liberals, for a start

Howard, Turnbull, Costello, Ley, Ruston, Dutton, Pyne… an entire generation of Liberals thinks using super for housing is a rotten idea.

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PM says Opposition leader’s criticism ‘the comments of an armchair critic’ – as it happened

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Coalition promises to make Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme medications $10 cheaper if re-elected

Some medications on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) would be $10 cheaper under a re-elected Coalition government, the Prime Minister will announce on Saturday.

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Federal election: Leaders clash over cost of living as record inflation becomes key election issue

Record inflation and cost-of-living pressures continued to dominate the campaign trail, as the major parties took their election pitches to Sydney and Cairns.

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Bodies of Indigenous families’ loved ones left in morgues after collapse of funeral insurer Youpla

Federal government urged to provide compensation, as minister says families can apply for state-assisted or ‘pauper’ funerals

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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

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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.

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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.

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PM due to name Ruston new health minister

Prime Minister Scott Morrison is expected to name Social Services Minister Anne Ruston as his new health minister if the coalition wins the next election.

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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..

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Liberal candidate Katherine Deves apologises for likening her activism against transgender athletes to standing up against the Holocaust

A controversial candidate in a prized former Liberal Party seat apologises after a YouTube video emerged in which she compared her lobbying to stop transgender athletes from competing in women's sport to standing up against the Holocaust.

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As cost-of-living pressures bite, reset of Pharmaceuticals Benefits Scheme co-payments needed, experts say

Rick Parsons had two heart attacks and has type 2 diabetes, so taking regular medications are often all that stands between living and dying.

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Ukraine president addresses parliament; Putin a ‘war criminal’, PM says – as it happened

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Renewed calls to claim victims' compensation from criminals' superannuation as election looms

Advocates are calling on both the government and opposition to commit to changes that will allow the superannuation of criminals to be used for victims' compensation.

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Liberals defend PM from bullying claims

High-profile Liberals have come out in support of the prime minister after accusations of bullying surfaced in parliament.

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Anne Ruston says person behind 'threatening' call to Grace Tame should 'front up and apologise'

In response to Grace Tame saying an investigation was "missing the point", Senator Anne Ruston says the government is still happy to look into the "unacceptable" phone call.

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Religious discrimination laws in limbo – as it happened

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