Australia election 2022

Anthony Albanese has been grilled about when Labor will outline its final costings, less than a week out from polling day.

So this is very normal, and it’s another scare campaign from the government,” she said at the time. “This is very normal. When will Labor outline its costings?”

Scott Morrison has set up a battle with Labor over housing affordability in the final week of the election, using the Coalition's campaign launch to target ...

The scheme would start by July 2023. To make things truly better, to step beyond where we are today and put this pandemic behind us.” “We stood on the edge of an abyss. Couples could access up to $100,000. “They want you to solve the problem, your savings to solve the problem, not for them to help you or any ordinary Australians to buy their own home. “I also know Australians, they’re tired of politics.

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If they sell the home, they must return the cash to their super funds along with a share of the capital gains. I refer to the comments by Ken Morrison from the Property Council of Australia …. [he] has also disagreed with some of those analyses that others have done. It is not uncommon for oppositions to release their policies costing in the final week of the campaign. The idea that we don’t have costings out there is, quite frankly, absurd,” he said, pointing to today’s announcement of a new surgical centre for Perth, half-funded by a $75 million contribution from a federal Labor government. What research or analysis do you have to back up the scheme?” It’s given them the foot in the door of homeownership for low- and middle-income earners. “It’s not just Labor [criticising the scheme],” a reporter said. In Victoria, in the model that they did, their trial which has been supported in the past by Scott Morrison ... I’m advised that about one in six of the people who participated in that scheme have actually then bought out the government equity. Why do you think that it is appropriate or better for a government to take equity of a home rather than for an Australian to own their own home?” a reporter asked during Albanese’s WA press conference. Even though Labor could not have been more clear, more decisive, or more certain about our support for AUKUS, this prime minister has continued to play politics and to suggest that that wasn’t the case at each and every opportunity,” Albanese said. The US administration … they expected there to be [a] briefing and expected there to be a condition [that there] would be bipartisan support. However, Labor was briefed only the day before it was announced.

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"Having a strategy with a goal of denying the Beijing enhanced relationships in the region is just ridiculous. "Most people don't have that level of engagement with politics in the first place to make that messaging effective. In recent years, Beijing has stepped up the militarization of the South China Sea, committed alleged human rights abuses against the minority Uyghur population in Xinjiang, and clamped down on freedoms in Hong Kong, where police recently arrested a 90-year-old cardinal "There's a track record of overreaction and panic, that's for sure. China's tacit support of Russia's actions in Ukraine has also hardened attitudes, and the Australian government has rushed to supply Ukraine with tanks, coal, and humanitarian aid. Suddenly the specter of a Chinese military base on a nation just 2,000 kilometers (1,600 miles) from Australia's shores became a live election issue -- even as the Solomon Islands and Beijing denied they had any such plans. "It hardened public attitudes in Australia and pushed Canberra to lead the charge against China's coercive actions." While sanctions have undoubtedly hurt Australian businesses, the loss of the Chinese market forced some to diversify and they've found replacement markets. "Pursuing a proactive foreign policy while investing in its own resilience offers a model for other states under pressure from revisionist powers." How that may change Australia's relationship with China has been a common question ahead of the vote. And that means that Australia, of course, must respond," said Albanese during a leaders' debate, in words that appeared to echo the government's hardline stance. Before the federal election campaign even started, accusations were being hurled that China wanted a Labor win.

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And the economy is fundamental to everything. Housing has been a core issue this campaign. "The evidence shows the best way to help Australians achieve security in their retirement is to help them own their own home." Morrison heads to the polls as living costs soar, amid a war in eastern Europe and an increasingly expanding China in the Asia-Pacific. With prices setting records and interest rates on the rise, frustration is building in the community that a generation of Australians could well be locked out of the market. He spoke at length about his team, all but conceding that while he might be on the nose in parts of the community, his Coalition might still have enough support to secure another term.