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Anthony Albanese and Scott Morrison will face off in the second leaders' election debate. The federal election campaign has taken on a family flavour on ...

Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement "For less than what the government gives in handouts to the likes of Clive Palmer, we could have free child care for all," he says. "On Mother's Day, I can't think of a better way to come out of the pandemic than by strengthening the communities that are built for mums and kids through increasing funding to grow and support playgroups all over the country." Scott Morrison will on Sunday announce a $53 million package to help slash the cost of IVF for would-be mums and dads.

The Reserve Bank of Australia says wages will not grow in real terms until late 2023. A key Liberal senator has renewed his call for religious freedom laws ...

The pledge would see businesses receive up to $100,000 in matched funding for facilities such as restaurants and viewing platforms. Trade Minister Dan Tehan said more than 60 per cent of distilleries were in rural and regional Australia, and Australian wineries spread across 65 regions, “so these programs will support regional Australia to diversify their tourism offerings, which is a key plank of our long-term tourism strategy.” “Tourism is key to our plan and this funding will help bring in more tourists to local businesses, meaning more people touring our breweries and wineries, more people buying products and ultimately businesses employing more people.”

Labor has responded to criticism over not releasing its policy costings ahead of the start of pre-polling, with...

"We've said very clearly that's something we'd like to do. "What we know is that the government has committed a lot more spending than we have on just about every single day of this election campaign," he said. "Scott Morrison is waiting for people to have voted for a week before he outlines what his costings are."

Women have been promised new economic measures to help bridge the wage gap as Labor makes a last-minute pitch to female voters.

“It is something that we would look at in government. Unions have called for superannuation to be added to parental leave to narrow what they call the gender retirement gap that sees women on average retire with far less superannuation than men. Women have been promised new economic measures to help bridge the wage gap as Labor makes a last-minute pitch to female voters. With less than a fortnight to go before the May 21 federal election, Anthony Albanese has flagged another round of policies aimed at women to pursue gender pay equity and improve their career options. Labor has promised to pass laws to impose a “positive duty” on employers to stop sex discrimination and sexual harassment and to make gender pay equity an objective of the Fair Work Act. Australian women have been promised policies to help achieve pay equity as Labor makes a last-minute pitch to female voters.

Labor is turning its attention to women voters, the Coalition has promised to reduce the cost of IVF for thousands of Australians and the prime minister and ...

She said a tax review had to be the next parliament’s agenda. It is a major part of our tax system. “GST should be on table in a conversation about tax. The average in the OECD is 21.5 per cent. I think what this is about [is] the policies and what are the ethos of where we are going for the future. It is not about him personally.

Labor is turning its attention to women voters, the Coalition has promised to reduce the cost of IVF for thousands of Australians and the prime minister and ...

And I was disappointed we weren’t able to achieve it during the course of the last parliamentary term. Morrison didn’t say, but did insist that “one [bill] triggers the other”. Our policy is to have a set of protections of people of religious faith or non-religious faith in this country.

Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese has used the art of deflection to hit out at Scott Morrison's leadership and take the heat out of former prime minister ...

“What we know is that the government has committed a lot more spending than we have on just about every single day of this election campaign,” he said. “Scott Morrison is waiting for people to have voted for a week before he outlines what his costings are.” “John Howard led his party in a way that Scott Morrison never has and never will.”

Labor has responded to criticism over not releasing its policy costings ahead of the start of pre-polling, with...

"We've said very clearly that's something we'd like to do. "What we know is that the government has committed a lot more spending than we have on just about every single day of this election campaign," he said. "Scott Morrison is waiting for people to have voted for a week before he outlines what his costings are."

Labor leader Anthony Albanese has unleashed a phenomenal spray at Prime Minister Scott Morrison just hours before the pair face off in a vital head to head ...

'The rabble that the Coalition has become is a hindrance. That is what they all say. 'That would never have happened under John Howard, because John Howard led his party in a way that Scott Morrison never has and never will.' That is what they all say,' he said. 'That would never have happened under John Howard, because John Howard led his party in a way that Scott Morrison never has and never will.' 'John Howard, if he was sitting in the caucus today would not recognise the rabble that is the Liberal Party under Scott Morrison. Scott Morrison has Barnaby Joyce. Not once, but Barnaby Joyce the sequel is even worse than the horror show we saw in the beginning. Mr Albanese then said Mr Howard 'would not recognise the rabble that is the Liberal Party under Scott Morrison'. 'John Howard would not recognise the rabble that is there. Scott Morrison and his wife Jenny, daughters Lily and Abbey and his mother Marion at a Liberal Party rally in Melbourne on Sunday Mr Albanese also said he doesn't care if John Howard tells everyone to vote Liberal, because the former prime minister 'would not recognise the rabble' his party has become. Mr Albanese then said it was more 'amazing' to him that former Liberal Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull 'can't say that people should vote Liberal, can't say that he will vote Liberal at this election'.

Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese will square off in second leaders' debate to be broadcast on Channel Nine; Opposition leader says Labor will match ...

“There is concern as to whether the information provided by him regarding his residential address on these forms is false. He has stuck with ADSL for the time being because he believes the tree cover and weather would adversely effect his service. Western Australia has recorded one new historical Covid death overnight. “We are very, very dependent on a reliable internet ADSL connection. “It would have been just your run-of-the-mill 240-volt powerpoint,” Stewart says. While he has the option of satellite, many users have reported poor speeds and reliability. When the man failed to comply with that move along direction, he was arrested. - In hospital: 281 (with 8 people in ICU) - In hospital: 491 (with 38 people in ICU) It’s actually a tremendous attack on free speech. - In hospital: 38 (with no people in ICU) - In hospital: 76 (with 6 people in ICU)

Mr Howard – Australia's second longest serving prime minister – labelled Mr Albanese a “left-wing inner-city bomb thrower” who is not up to leading the country.

Mr Albanese says he’s “respectfully untroubled†by John Howard’s criticism of him. “But there’s nothing. Stream more election news live & on demand with Flash. 25+ news channels in 1 place.

Labor is turning its attention to women voters, the Coalition has promised to reduce the cost of IVF for thousands of Australians and the prime minister and ...

She said a tax review had to be the next parliament’s agenda. And I was disappointed we weren’t able to achieve it during the course of the last parliamentary term. The average in the OECD is 21.5 per cent. “GST should be on table in a conversation about tax. I think what this is about [is] the policies and what are the ethos of where we are going for the future. Currently, the party only has one MP in the lower house compared to a handful of other crossbenchers. All of our costings will be released ... in the usual way. We have no idea what the Coalition commitments are. We know that 90 per cent of human brain development occurs in the first five years. We expect, and have planned for, the furloughing of staff. Three journalists, including the Sydney Morning Herald and Age’s chief political correspondent, David Crowe, will question the party leaders for an hour. And the modern manufacturing initiative.

In an exclusive interview, Anthony Albanese promises new economic measures to achieve gender equity and vows his campaign will “step up” in the final two ...

The Coalition has not embraced this idea, which was recommended by Sex Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins in her Respect@Work report two years ago, and says it needs further consultation. The rise of independent candidates has made the analysis of what might happen more complex.” “The polls show what people think at a particular point in time. “We will have a range of smaller announcements in the last fortnight which reinforce the themes that we’re running on, and one of the themes is the economic participation of women and gender equity.” During this campaign, there are no assumptions. “If you lift up the economic status of women, you lift up the entire national economy,” Albanese said in an interview with The Sun Herald and The Sunday Age.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese go head-to-head in the second leaders' debate as the federal election campaign enters ...

Albanese: "The difference between myself and the current government and Scott Morrison is that we will try to do what we can in measures and structures to improve real wages. And what Scott did not tell you about the AAA credit rating was that it was achieved under the former Labor government, we were the government that achieve that and it has been maintained but the truth is, there is an enormous amount of waste and reports in this budget." They are not doing that out of choice, they are doing that out of choice, they are doing that to try to get by and that is why one of the things we need to do is to address wages. Albanese: "It's true to say that young Australians are finding it more and more difficult to get access to the great dream of home ownership. We need to make sure that Australians can have faith in it and that is why we need to do whatever we can to create institutions and structures that enhance that faith in our political system." I brought my party together, brought by coalition together, brought by coalition together by getting to net zero by 2050, that is something that took a lot of leadership to bring my party together in the unity." but is interrupted by Uhlmann to clarify that wages will rise faster than inflation - i.e. will rise quicker than the cost of living. We have an economy that is growing faster than the advanced economies of the world and lowest… Morrison: "From time to time, I will disagree with people and they won't agree with the position I am taking, whether deciding to put the national interest first and not by the French submarines. The cabinet has to decide whether there can be an investigation so a minister comes before you about something like Leppington Triangle or some of the other rights and scandals and they get to decide whether an independent integrity commission, we will have legislation this year if we are elected." We made sure we were manufacturing vaccines in Australia with the AstraZeneca vaccine, and we ensure that when we have the setbacks, I put in place the director-general to do this under a military command, to ensure we got the vaccination program back on track. And what we achieved is, we ensure that everyone who wanted a vaccine could have one in the middle of October. That was only two weeks out from the original deadline that we set ourselves at the start of the year.

The PM and Labor leader are being questioned by a panel of journalists in the second head-to-head of the campaign. Follow it live.

So I can understand the hurt and the feelings that people have had coming out of a time like this. Uhlmann has brought up Albanese’s stumble on listing the six points of Labor’s NDIS plan. The values of supporting a fair day’s pay for a [day’s] work. They go in to take their view about how they help their fellow Australians in the best way possible. We have not seen the revolving door under my leadership. We need to make sure that we restore faith in the integrity of our political system. The values of supporting essential universal services, such as Medicare, supporting universal superannuation ... I came out [of the womb] with three great faiths, the Labor party, the Catholic church and the South Sydney rugby league football club and I remain true to all three. They’re on to the shared equity scheme for housing that Labor has promised. You said it wasn’t a race, Albanese says: Crowe asks Morrison point blank if he’s witnessed any corruption. He never favoured a federal one (yeah, good luck parsing that). Albanese points out that Morrison has supported shared equity in the past, when the Victorian government brought in a scheme.

Liberal leader Scott Morrison and Labor leader Anthony Albanese face off in The Great Debate, hosted by Channel Nine - with moderator 60 Minutes reporter ...

The two men vying to be Australia's next Prime Minister are going head-to-head in the federal election's second leaders' debate.

What it is about is how do you fix the NDIS," he said. [It's] about a strong future or an uncertain future," he said. Three more years of not accepting responsibility," he said. Three more years of drift and neglect. That's it," he said. "A job is what gives Australians security to deal with rising costs and rising pressures on interest rates. "I can understand the hurt and the feelings that people have had coming out of a time like this," he said. "From time to time, I will disagree with people and they won't agree with the position I am taking," he said. You've got two pages. It has the result of the Australian economy springing back to life," he said. They have all the sincerity of a fake tan," he said. "It was a race, Anthony, and we shouldn't have described it in those terms," he said.

The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age photographer James Brickwood captures all the moments that mattered from the Great Debate at Nine's studio in Sydney.

There are heated moments in the second leaders' debate of the federal election but Channel Nine's audience fails to find a clear winner.

They go in to take their view about how they help their fellow Australians in the best way possible. words you will never hear from me: ‘That’s not my job.’ I will never say it. And I will say this – there are four words you will never hear from me. “I think overwhelmingly, people go into politics across the spectrum for all the right reasons. You have had three years. You have two pages. You ticked it off.” In his closing remarks, Morrison said the choice at the election would “impact significantly on the future of all Australians.” “Our democracy is precious ... we need to make sure that Australians can have faith in it and that is why we need to do whatever we can to create institutions and structures that enhance that faith in our political system.” “In the pandemic we had to lean in and save the economy through jobkeeper, the single largest economic intervention which saved lives, livelihoods and businesses and that expenditure ensured the Australian economy could be where it is today,” Morrison said. Morrison was asked to explain his remark that a Chinese base in Solomon Islands would be viewed as a “red line” by the Australian government, to which he said it would be “unwise” to speculate. “It means that was something Australia believes would be completely against our national interest, and we also believe it will be against the Solomon Islands’ national interest,” Morrison said.

The Opposition Leader visited St Mary's Cathedral College, with Tanya Plibersek and Catholic Archbishop Anthony Fisher on Monday morning. Upon his arrival, ...

At least one in three teachers quit the sector in their first five years of teaching, with unions complaining of extra workloads pushing members to their limit. “A school that gave me some of the values that I have in life.” Upon his arrival, Albanese was bombarded by dozens of young men waiting to get a glimpse of him, as seen in the video above.

For more than an hour, there was a whole lot of mud being slung around between Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese during their second debate.

A Coalition source said their path to government relied on Morrison not getting angry and Albanese stuffing up, such as he did in week one of the campaign when he was asked about the unemployment rate. You couldn't blame viewers if they just as quickly changed the channel. Of the respondents, 49 per cent said Albanese was their preferred prime minister, 45 per cent backed Morrison and 6 per cent were undecided. Albanese went first and said "an adult female", while Morrison followed with "a member of the female sex". Right from the start, Albanese was again calling Morrison "Scott", a tactic he deployed in the first debate to strip his opponent of the office he holds. In this debate, the most heated moment between the leaders came over national security and the lease of the Port of Darwin to a company linked to the Chinese government.

With the Prime Minister suffering another hit in the polls and the Labor leader desperate to prove his leadership credentials, both men had plenty on the line ...

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Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese clashed bitterly during a heated televised election debate, shouting and accusing each other of misleading voters.

So I can understand the hurt and the feelings that people have had coming out of a time like this.” The values of supporting a fair day’s pay for a [day’s] work. The values of supporting essential universal services, such as Medicare, supporting universal superannuation.“ The Labor leader continued: “We need to make sure that we restore faith in the integrity of our political system. You have been hiding in the bushes for three years.” Asked why his popularity had declined notably since the 2019 election, Morrison said: “It has been a tough three years, particularly the last two years, and I know over that period of time there would have been many disappointments, people would have disagreed with many things I did and would have a different view about how things might have been managed.

Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese has closed the margin on Prime Minister Scott Morrison as early voting opens for Australians unable to attend a ballot in ...

“Australians have been living with COVID for more than two years now. “If you can vote on election day then that’s what you should do. Stream more election news live & on demand with Flash. 25+ news channels in 1 place. New to Flash? Try 1 month free. It has led to support for Mr Albanese being the next prime minister rising a further three points to 42 per cent, while Mr Morrison fell down one to 44 per cent. Anthony Albanese has clawed back a hefty deficit to be neck-and-neck with Scott Morrison in the preferred prime minister stakes as the Coalition continues to lose ground to Labor with early voting centres opening on Monday.