With just 16 days left in Australia’s federal election campaign, the unhinging continues. Anthony Albanese has officially launched Labor’s policies, and Scott Morrison’s campaign looks like it’s starting to get a bit desperate.
In this slightly arithmetic-heavy episode we talk about Tim Wilson’s derangement, Pauline Hanson’s One Nation, housing affordability, interests rates, that goddam chicken curry, and the supposed chaos of so-called hung parliaments. Again.
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[4 May 2022] NAB has announced it will join the other big banks in passing interest rates to borrowers. Here’s how much it will cost you.
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[3 Mar 2022] In his own words, during a speech to Parliament in 2008 on cost of living pressures, a fresh-faced Scott Morrison said when interest rates rise the Rudd government should be held accountable.
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[1 May 2022] Anthony Albanese outlines vision for medicines, manufacturing jobs, gender pay equity, electric vehicles and housing affordability
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The Labor Party officially launched their campaign on Sunday, unveiling new policies and making their most comprehensive pitch to voters so far. But the policy offering remains slimmer than it was three years ago, which is part of what has been described as the party’s small target strategy. Today, national correspondent for The Saturday Paper, Mike Seccombe on the Labor Party’s policy platform and the demographic data that shaped it.
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Labor's new campaign ad has been released with Hollywood star Russell Crowe providing narration.
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[2 May 2022] An ad for the Labor Party featuring Hollywood superstar Russell Crowe - who endorses Anthony Albanese for Prime Minister - has used generic stock footage from abroad. Watch the video here.
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[30 April 2022] The phrase appears to have emerged from Fleet Street in the 1970s to describe some fraught British politics. So it’s hardly a holy sacrament and could quite easily be consigned to the dustbin. It’s no longer relevant at a time where voters are wanting more nuance than the major parties can deliver.
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[4 Mat 2022] It’s pretty amusing that a party that has had three prime ministers and three treasurers in nine years is warning about the chaos and instability of a ‘hung parliament’.
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[5 May 2022] The minority government led by Julia Gillard had more success passing legislation than Scott Morrison’s Coalition, analysis shows
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[2 May 2022] While home ownership has been a focus of this election campaign, but many renters feeling like they're being left behind. Australia is in the midst of a rental squeeze, with low vacancies and high prices, and advocates are demanding action from governments.
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[27 April 2022] In NSW alone, the report found that there are more than 50,000 households on the waitlist for social housing. By 2036, the state is expected to see an affordable housing shortfall of 316,700 units – with the Western Sydney region alone experiencing a shortfall of 28,200 units.
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[3 May 2022] Oh dear. So, on Sunday the prime minister posted a picture to Facebook of a brinjal curry – a dish made with eggplant and okra – alongside what he said was a “classic chicken korma”. I’m truly sorry for showing you this cursed image but it has to be seen to be understood:
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[3 May 2022] A better future under Anthony Albanese and Labor, you have. #auspol #ausvotes
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[4 May 2022] That's no moon... It's massive debt under Scott Morrison while the cost of living keeps rising for Australians. #auspol #ausvotes
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[3 May 2022] In a bizarre performance, the Labor leader handballed questions on his party’s housing plan to his junior partner | WATCH
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[4 May 2022] When Rob Sinclair tried to nominate for the party in his local electorate it pleaded with him to run in other states
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[7 September 2016] The Liberal Democratic Party is standing by one of its councillors for this weekend's local government elections despite his recent affiliations to the far-right Australia First party and telling Fairfax Media "Asian [Australians] probably wouldn't make good soldiers". Despite the remarks, NSW cross-bench senator and de facto party leader David Leyonhjelm has declined to distance himself from the party's candidate, Tony Pettitt, for Hawkesbury Council in Saturday's elections.
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[2 May 2022] “Now, we’re certainly not saying that independent candidates and Climate 200 should be immune from scrutiny. But when news reporters and columnists of one of the country’s most powerful media groups echo the Liberal Party’s concerted attack on them, something is very wrong.”
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[3 May 2022] When the oligarchs are this frightened, you know something important is happening. As I say in this article, don't miss your chance: it's probably a once-in-a-generation moment to make things better.
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[2 May 2022] And organising to beat it.
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[3 May 2022] Poor Timmy. That 20% collapse in his primary vote appears to have sparked a nasty case of the vapours. He’s dialling the hyperbole up to 11 and beyond in the Liberal Party Gazette this morning. #AusVotes2022 #GoldsteinVotes
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[29 April 2022] Jones’ return in the middle of the election campaign is no accident, and he will have plenty to say about a contest which, so far, he calls “a campaign virtually of nothing”. But he is planning a long-term future, and protégé Jake Thrupp has previously talked about creating a new media home for Australia’s centre-right.
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[4 May 2022] Prime Minister Scott Morrison has opened a new front in the debate over a national integrity commission, declaring Australia could become an unrecognisable “public autocracy” if such a body is given too much influence over government decision-making.
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[27 April 2022] I talked with a woman who believes Joe Biden is being played by several different actors - including Jim Carrey. Big, if true.
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[1 May 2022] It’s just dawning on the media the significance of what is happening in Kooyong. The grassroots movement that is reinventing campaigning. The demise of a prince who will never be PM. And a crossroads that hasn’t been seen since Menzies birthed the Liberal Party…
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Pays on party which supplies the Prime Minister following the next Federal election. Bets settled at time of swearing in. All bets carry over if the Gov General does not swear in a PM because supply cannot be guaranteed.
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[5 May 2022] Unless Scott Morrison comes up with a compelling new policy or gambit in the next few days, he could go down in history as the Liberal leader who won an election he should have lost, then lost the one he should have won in a canter.
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[3 May 2022] Shadow treasurer Jim Chalmers: "If only you could pay your mortgage with Scott Morrison's excuses."
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