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Australia's opposition leader sidelined with COVID amid election fight

Australia's opposition leader Anthony Albanese has tested positive for COVID-19, forcing him to isolate for seven days in the middle of the country's election campaign in which the Labor party is battling to regain power after nine years.

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The Prime Minister's failure to establish a federal ICAC looks like a broken promise

The Prime Minister blamed a lack of "bipartisan support" for his government's failure to establish a federal anti-corruption body. But the evidence suggests it's a broken promise.

ABC News

Albanese says he’s ‘had better days’ in first TV interview since Covid diagnosis – as it happened

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Federal election: Dutton apologises for 2015 joke about rising seas in light of Solomon Islands China deal — as it happened

The federal election campaign continues, with Prime Minister Scott Morrison wishing Anthony Albanese well following his COVID-19 test, and Peter Dutton apologising for years-old comments.

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Labor steps up as Albanese isolates

Labor frontbenchers will take a more central role over the next seven days after leader Anthony Albanese contracted COVID-19.

AAP

Factcheck: the Coalition says Labor always ‘takes China’s side’, but are the parties’ positions so different?

Did the opposition call Scott Morrison a ‘racist’ for shutting the border to China at the start of pandemic? Let’s look at the record

The Guardian - AU

Australian opposition leader gets COVID while campaigning

Australia’s opposition leader has tested positive for COVID-19 in the second week of an election campaign ahead of the May 21 federal election

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Anthony Albanese tests positive to Covid but vows to continue election fight

The Opposition leader says he will continue to work from home while isolating despite being forced off campaign trail for a week

The Guardian - AU

Anthony Albanese confined to home for seven days after testing COVID positive

Labor’s worst fears have been realised with Anthony Albanese testing positive for COVID.

The Conversation

OOF: Anthony Albanese Says He Just Tested Positive For COVID-19 While On The Campaign Trail

Albanese said he's "feeling fine so far".

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Labor leader Anthony Albanese tests positive for COVID-19 amid election campaign

Labor leader Anthony Albanese will be forced to isolate at home for the next week of the election campaign after testing positive for COVID-19.

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In Australia’s election campaign the silence on climate is deafening

Our major political parties – and the media – seem to have forgotten we’re heading for a cliff when it comes to temperature rises

The Guardian - AU

Scott Morrison apologises for offence caused by saying he was ‘blessed’ to have children without disability

PM says sorry for remark during leaders’ debate after claiming that opponents ‘twisted’ his words

The Guardian - AU

Federal election: Labor wants federal ICAC as Morrison says controversial candidate has 'common sense' views on transgender sport debate

Labor leader Anthony Albanese says his party will push for its own model of a national anti-corruption commission, as Scott Morrison defends controversial Warringah candidate Katherine Deves.

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The Loop: Ukraine's desperate negotiations on Mariupol, wash up from leader's debate and a baby supernova

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The Guardian - AU

Morning mail: leaders clash over China security deal, coal export boom to bust, UK thirsty for vampires

Thursday: Labor leader Anthony Albanese wins the first leaders’ debate. Plus: Russia tests new missile from its nuclear arsenal

ABC News

How does preferential voting work in Australia?

Preferential voting gives people the chance to say who they want to win the election and who they don't.

The Conversation

Deals, golf with Trump, and little introspection: Joe Hockey goes to Washington and writes his memoirs

Perhaps unfairly, the image most of us have of Joe Hockey comes from his time as federal Treasurer, when he was photographed smoking a cigar with then Finance Minister Mathias Cormann in the aftermath of the 2014 budget.

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Liberals defend PM disability comment

The prime minister is under pressure for telling a mother he was 'blessed' to have children without disability, with critics calling the term hurtful.

The Guardian - AU

Rightwing media no longer wield power as they once did. So why is Labor letting them set the election agenda?

‘Paper tigers’ may as well be real if progressives cower under our beds in fear of them. If we want to win, we have to fight

The Canberra Times

Australia's biggest coal market to reduce dependency on imports

China's demand for Australian coal will decline rapidly over the next few years

The Guardian - AU

Amid sharp questions in leaders’ debate, Morrison stayed relentlessly on message while Albanese showed he was listening

There were stumbles and a few bad moments as audience of swinging voters asked the most substantive questions of the campaign so far

ABC News

We fact-checked key claims from the leaders’ debate. Here’s what we found.

Questionable stats, misleading figures and even a call that was on the money. RMIT ABC Fact Check examines claims from Wednesday night’s first leaders' debate.

The Conversation

View from The Hill: Undecided voters give narrow victory to Albanese

The vote among the 100 undecided voters at Wednesday’s Sky News/Courier Mail people’s forum was a modest 40% victory for Anthony Albanese. Morrison was rated the winner by 35% of the audience, while some 25% were undecided.

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No magic moments: 3 Australian politics experts on Morrison and Albanese's first election debate

Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Labor leader Anthony Albanese met at the Gabba in Brisbane on Wednesday evening with 100 undecided voters.

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