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Early voting begins in Australia election with opposition ahead in polls

Early voting began in Australia on Monday two weeks ahead of election day, with surveys showing the opposition centre-left Labor Party extending its lead and Prime Minister Scott Morrison suffering a fall in his approval rating.

Reuters

With signs of floodwater still visible, the LNP’s hold on Brisbane may be in doubt

Though floodwaters are front of mind for many voters the city’s demographic mix means no single party is assured of electoral victory

The Guardian - AU

Many struggled even before rate increase

A new survey has found almost one-in-three borrowers were struggling to make ends meet even before the Reserve Bank of Australia raised the cash rate last week.

AAP

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Queensland Museum gifted tea towel signed by prominent federal, state politicians

A unique tea towel stitched with signatures of politicians has prompted a nationwide search for the people behind the autographs.

ABC News

Morning mail: no winners in messy election debate, 60 feared dead in Russian airstrike on school

Monday: Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese bicker through messy second debate. Plus: why hair salons now offer no-talking appointments

The Guardian - AU

As News Corp goes 'rogue' on election coverage, what price will Australian democracy pay?

What does a democracy do when a dominant news media organisation goes rogue during an election campaign?

The Conversation

With high prices and soaring rents, what are political parties promising to do about housing?

In an election campaign largely centred around the cost of living, the spiralling cost of the single-biggest expense for most households — housing — is a key focus for policy. Here's what's being promised.

ABC News

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Aircraft noise becomes a key federal election issue for some frustrated Brisbane residents

Flight path and aircraft noise is emerging as a key federal election issue in inner-Brisbane electorates, with residents in dozens of suburbs complaining of excessive noise pollution from Brisbane Airport's new runway.

ABC News

Schools, hospitals high on Labor's agenda

Labor is promising to splash cash in two key sectors, including incentives for teachers and matching a hospital investment from the SA government.

AAP

PM all smirk and smear in debate: Albanese

Both parties have gone on the attack following Sunday night's second leaders' debate, as pre-polling starts across the country.

AAP

Labor to announce scholarship plan for high-achieving students to become teachers

Policy will aim to double number of high achievers studying education and include places for qualified professionals to retrain

The Guardian - AU

Unattributed attack ads targeting Labor on Chinese-language WeChat fuel fears of election misinformation

Electoral commission says they are not monitoring the social media platform as marginal seats with Chinese-Australian populations hang in the balance

The Guardian - AU

Anthony Albanese and Scott Morrison in fiery debate over anti-corruption commission, national security and cost of living

Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese's second head-to-head sees the men get into heated exchanges on national security, anti-corruption commissions and climate change.

ABC News

View from The Hill: Labor widens leads in Newspoll and Ipsos, as pre-polling starts

The opposition has increased its winning margins in both Newspoll and the Australian Financial Review’s Ipsos poll, as Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese clashed in a shouty, fractious debate on Sunday night.

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The Guardian - AU

Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese clash over cost of living and integrity in messy leaders’ debate

There are heated moments in the second leaders’ debate of the federal election but Channel Nine’s audience fails to find a clear winner

The Conversation

Labor seizes large lead in Newspoll and Ipsos; impact of how to vote cards is exaggerated

This week’s Newspoll, conducted May 4-7 from a sample of 1,523, gave Labor a 54-46 lead, a one-point gain for Labor since the previous week’s Newspoll. Primary votes were 39% Labor (up one), 35% Coalition (down one), 11% Greens (steady), 5% One Nation (steady), 4% UAP (steady) and 6% Others…

Newcastle Herald

Under-threat regional papers offered $10m lifeline

Regional newspapers sounding the alarm over a devastating price hike have been offered a lifeline.

ABC News

Labor promises cash payments to entice high achievers to study teaching

Labor promises to pay students who get an ATAR of 80 or over up to $12,000 a year if they decide to study an education degree, as part of its plan to boost teaching standards and reduce teacher shortages.

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Sharma warns of teal threat to Liberals

Independent candidate Allegra Spender says she is willing to work with both sides of politics as she vies to oust Wentworth's Liberal MP Dave Sharma.

The Guardian - AU

Rivals face off in second leaders’ debate – as it happened

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AAP

Greens to call for young voter 'uprising'

Greens Leader Adam Bandt says young people have to fight for their future as the party turns to first-time voters to strengthen their foothold in Canberra.

ABC News

Prime Minister Scott Morrison says schools not expelling gay students, doubles down on religious discrimination bill

Prime Minister Scott Morrison says gay students are not being expelled from religious schools, doubling down on re-introducing the failed religious discrimination bill without extra protections for gay and transgender students.

The Guardian - AU

Scott Morrison defends delaying protections for LGBTQ students as party tensions resurface

Liberal backbench MP Katie Allen reiterates protecting gay and trans students is ‘not negotiable’

AAP

Albanese defends costings release delay

Anthony Albanese has defended the economic and policy choices Labor is taking to the election during a tour of John Howard's old seat of Bennelong.

The Guardian - AU

LNP candidate in Queensland referred to federal police for allegedly falsifying address

AEC has also referred reports of hundreds of fake signs falsely suggesting independents were members of the Greens to the Electoral Integrity Assurance Taskforce

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