Frydenberg hits back at ALP states' fears over $40b in 'secret cuts'
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Josh Frydenberg has warned the states their ability to raise revenue would be hurt by Labor's $387 billion in higher taxes choking economic growth.
Josh Frydenberg has warned the states their ability to raise revenue would be hurt by Labor's $387 billion in higher taxes choking economic growth.
Social media users are being targeted with highly specific campaign advertisements, as both Labor and the Liberals finesse geo-targeting voters on Facebook and YouTube.
Bill Shorten has hit back at Coalition challenges over the cost of Labor's policies on reducing climate emissions, labelling attacks as "intellectually dishonest" and "malicious".
Tim Storer, the Senator who cost the government its company tax cuts, has quit politics after 14 months.
Free of public expectations of victory, PM Scott Morrison comes across as a liberated man.
Labor, as one MP put it, suddenly feels as though "we've got our arse hanging out in the breeze''.
The Morrison government has high hopes of clawing back some of Labor's overwhelming advantage in Tasmania's five House of Representatives seats in the federal election, with its eyes on the marginal seat of Braddon and the north-west seat of Bass.
The pre-election budget update has done little to settle the political row over tax cuts and how they will be paid for.
In an interview with AFR Weekend while on the campaign trail, the Prime Minister vows to leave no stone unturned as he launches a raid on Labor's Tasmanian seats.
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The former prime minister's son is using his computer programming skills to take on the world's most powerful media group.
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