Malcolm Turnbull
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Kristina Keneally joins Gabrielle Jackson and Miles Martignoni to discuss the election campaign at the halfway stage, including the claim that Labor once supported corporate tax cuts, Scott Morrison’s aggressive language in a press conference, why Malcolm Turnbull’s father is the focus of a new campaign ad and why a double dissolution may work well for independents
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Labor has not backflipped on corporate tax cuts. Here are the facts
Kristina KeneallyMuch has been made of Labor’s apparent ‘backflip’ on corporate tax cuts. But the party has held a fairly consistent position in opposition as evidence mounts that tax cuts may not be all they’re cracked up to be -
Former PM likens senator’s views on trade to Pauline Hanson’s as poll suggests Coalition could lose Mayo
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Election 2016: Prime minister to visit storm-hit areas of New South Wales as Bill Shorten awaits word on offer to join him
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Support for independents rises three points to 15% in latest Newspoll, as backing for all three major parties drops slightly
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Election 2016: A new Newspoll has the Coalition and Labor level, but the real story is that 25% of voters said they planned to vote for neither
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Australian Marriage Equality is campaigning in 30 marginal electorates but it is trying to keep party politics out of the debate by focusing on fairness
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Prime minister says ‘now is not the time for a protest vote or a wasted vote’ and warns voters not to return to ‘yet another minority government’
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Labor leader says he stayed away to avoid politicising event but ‘I would like to have been there in hindsight’
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Election 2016: Labor says Vote Compass does not represent party’s views and Turnbull team takes ‘jobs and growth’ to key SA electorates
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As ministers struggle to explain policy reforms, cabinet secretary Arthur Sinodinos says the government will take the issue back to the party room if it wins the election. As it happened
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John Roskam says government’s rhetoric similar to that of the US presidential hopeful and Jeremy Corbyn
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Joe Morrison says Indigenous affairs had ‘never been bleaker than under Senator Scullion’s watch’
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Exclusive: Department apologises for ‘administrative error’, saying matter referred to Office of the Australian Information Commissioner
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Election 2016: Finance minister Mathias Cormann plays down reports that political party donors are threatening to withhold donations over the policy
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GDP figures reveal strong economic growth but falling labour costs suggest wage growth remains particularly weak
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Election 2016: Union invites prime minister to ‘tell workers why they should be paid less’, as Malcolm Turnbull says wage rises cost jobs
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As a solution to Australia’s jobs and growth challenges, a corporate tax cut doesn’t make it even into the top 10 of sensible policy responses
Topics
- Australian politics
- Australian election 2016
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- Bill Shorten
- Labor party
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- Scott Morrison
- Australian economy
- Superannuation
- Nick Xenophon
- Australian Greens
- New South Wales
- Julie Bishop
- South Australia
- Arthur Sinodinos
- Business (Australia)
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- Australian trade unions
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