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news.com.au | Liam Beatty |Sarah Keoghan |Jessica Wang |Blair Jackson
Popular independent senator Jacqui Lambie has delivered a searing blow to the Coalition, questioning their ability to function as a “credible opposition”. With the five-week election campaign passing the crucial halfway point, the opposition has continued to languish in the polls, with Sunday’s Newspoll revealing its primary vote falling to 35 per cent, a figure even lower than its 2022 election loss. Labor also continued to lead Peter Dutton’s Coalition 52-48.
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1 week ago |
news.com.au | Sarah Keoghan |Blair Jackson
Peter Dutton has finally admitted he will be helping his kids out with a house deposit, after dodging the question for nearly 24 hours. The Opposition Leader was again pressed on whether he would be helping his three children after his son Harry told reporters on Monday he was “saving like mad” to save for his home. Harry was out campaigning with his father again while in Victoria on Tuesday, with the 20-year-old staying well away from the press conference podium this time around.
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news.com.au | Nathan Schmidt |Sarah Keoghan |Blair Jackson
Housing Minister Clare O’Neil has slammed Nationals leader David Littleproud over “deeply offensive comments”, after he compared a female Labor MP to a “chihuahua”. Mr Littleproud has drawn controversy after telling the media on Monday that the Labor MP for Bendigo Lisa Chesters has “about as much pull as a chihuahua”. “I mean literally, what has she got for the people of Bendigo?” he said.
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1 week ago |
news.com.au | Nathan Schmidt |Sarah Keoghan |Blair Jackson
Anthony Albanese has responded to a bizarre diss track released by the Liberal Party on Monday, stating aspects of the Opposition’s campaign were “beyond my comprehension”. ‘Leaving Labor’, the campaign’s first rap track, was released by the Opposition hours after officially launching its election campaign in Western Sydney on Sunday afternoon.
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1 week ago |
news.com.au | Blair Jackson
A man convicted of killing a foster child in his care has been found dead in his jail cell. Rick Thorburn murdered 12-year-old schoolgirl Tiahleigh Palmer in 2015 and was sentenced to life in prison. Thorburn was found dead in his cell in regional Queensland on Friday, and is understood to have taken his own life. A Queensland Corrective Services spokeswoman confirmed the death of Thorburn to NewsWire.
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