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The Latest Breaking News from Malcolm Turnbull

What makes a great political speech? Let’s talk about oratory, my fellow citizens

The leader must be willing to go beyond party politics, and demonstrate humanity, candour and raw emotion

The Guardian - AU

Why the NBN still matters — and how it can be improved after the election

Australia has spent billions on the NBN yet its speeds are still bad — at least compared to other countries. How did we end up here? And why aren't we hearing more about internet infrastructure this election?

ABC News

The rise of catchphrase politics: six examples of how policy loses out to soundbites

Some of the biggest policy challenges of our time are going unaddressed as complexity gets crunched down into three-word slogans

The Guardian - AU

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‘His beating heart is a focus group’ - What makes Morrison tick

Veteran Australian political writer Michelle Grattan weighs the factors ranged against PM Scott Morrison winning again in the election this Saturday

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'His beating heart is a focus group': what makes Scott Morrison tick?

Today we are running two longer articles looking at the men who are vying to be the next Australian prime minister. You can read Paul Strangio’s profile of Anthony Albanese here.

The Conversation

Leaders bump heads over housing policy

Both sides of politics are clashing over housing policy as Scott Morrison refuses to speculate on his plans in the event of a Coalition defeat.

AAP

Paul Keating attacks Coalition’s super for housing policy as economists warn of soaring prices

A Coalition plan to allow first-home buyers to use their superannuation to buy property has been slammed by Paul Keating as a "frontal assault" on super.

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How does the Coalition’s super scheme for first-homebuyers work and would it drive up prices?

Will it make housing unaffordable, as critics claim, and how does it compare with Labor’s Help to Buy scheme?

The Guardian - AU

Helen Haines says the current government has gagged debate in parliament more than any government in history. Is that correct?

Independent MP for the seat of Indi, Helen Haines, says the current government has moved to gag debate in parliament more than any government in history. RMIT ABC Fact Check crunches the numbers.

ABC News

ABC veterans call on voters to back election candidates who support the public broadcaster

‘At no point in my lifetime has the ABC been more important than it is today,’ says Kerry O’Brien in one campaign video

The Guardian - AU

Morrison pledges $20m for tourism; Shorten tests positive as 44 Covid deaths recorded – as it happened

Scott Morrison announces tourism package in Perth and Anthony Albanese pledges funding for manufacturing jobs in Tasmania

The Guardian - AU

Scott Morrison denies Solomon Islands ‘red lines’ rhetoric puts Australia more at risk

Making a defence funding announcement in WA, prime minister continues to face questions about his handling of national security issues

The Guardian - AU

PM refuses to comment on leadership future

Scott Morrison has declined suggestions the coalition has lost its way, following remarks by former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull.

AAP

Malcolm Turnbull says voters will consider independent candidates in blue-ribbon Liberal seats because party has lost its way

Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull denies he is encouraging voters in traditional Liberal strongholds to consider backing so-called 'teal independents', but argues his party could be about to get a wake-up call at the upcoming election.

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Malcolm Turnbull says Australians are ‘voting with their feet’ to support teal independents in election

Former PM tells Washington Harvard Club the rise of the independents could mean the ‘capture’ of the Liberal party is thwarted by ‘direct democratic action’ in the 2022 federal election

The Guardian - AU

Independents slam ‘dirty tactic’, reporting fake campaign signs; 30 Covid deaths – as it happened

Scott Morrison won’t say if he will resign in case of hung parliament and Anthony Albanese backs royal commission into pandemic

ABC News

Vote Compass data finds most Australians support Indigenous Voice to Parliament — and it has grown since the last election

Vote Compass asked whether Australia should amend its constitution to establish a representative body to advise Parliament on laws and policies affecting Indigenous peoples — and there was clear support for the idea.

The Guardian - AU

To Russia with love: ABC takes down interview sympathetic to Moscow’s stance on Ukraine

National broadcaster removes segment that it admitted ‘unduly favoured Russia’s perspective’. Plus: teal or no teal?

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Private schools received an extra $10bn funding in Coalition ‘special deals’, study finds

Exclusive: Public schools underfunded by at least $6.5bn a year while non-government schools received transitional funding after Gonski 2.0 reforms

The Canberra Times

Turnbull slams 'foreign policy failure', Musk's vision for Twitter

Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has unleashed his first major intervention into the election campaign.

The Conversation

Deals, golf with Trump, and little introspection: Joe Hockey goes to Washington and writes his memoirs

Perhaps unfairly, the image most of us have of Joe Hockey comes from his time as federal Treasurer, when he was photographed smoking a cigar with then Finance Minister Mathias Cormann in the aftermath of the 2014 budget.

The Guardian - AU

In an election short on excitement, Morrison and Albanese are relying on scare campaigns

Voters don’t appear overjoyed by either leader, so the major parties are going negative

ABC News

Brendan O'Connor says defence spending under the Howard and Rudd-Gillard governments was similar, on average. Is that correct?

Shadow Defence Minister Brendan O'Connor says the Howard and Rudd-Gillard governments both spend 1.7 to 1.8 per cent of GDP on defence. RMIT ABC Fact Check investigates.

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

View from The Hill: New One Nation candidate George Christensen set to win from losing

George Christensen caused the government a heap of trouble while he was in the Nationals, and is set to be a pest now he’s jumped ship.

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