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Albanese level with Morrison as better PM in Newspoll as Labor maintains big lead

This week’s Newspoll, conducted March 9-12 from a sample of 1,520, gave Labor a 55-45 lead, unchanged since last fortnight. Primary votes were 41% Labor (steady), 35% Coalition (steady), 8% Greens (down one), 3% One Nation (steady), 3% Clive Palmer’s UAP (down one) and 10% for all Others (up two).

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Cost of living to dominate election cycle

As a new Newspoll showed Anthony Albanese drawing level with Scott Morrison as preferred leader, the cost of living has emerged as a major campaign issue.

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Pressure mounts on federal government to cut fuel excise – as it happened

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Morning mail: Russia escalates war with attack near Poland, Daniel Andrews pushes sick leave trial, top Aussie pools

Monday: Victorian premier Daniel Andrews will push ahead with a paid sick leave trial for workers in insecure employment. Plus: Australia’s top 10 public swimming pools

The Guardian - AU

Cost of living focus in budget: Morrison

Just over a fortnight out from the federal budget, the prime minister says easing pressures on the family budget will be a key priority.

AAP

Scott Morrison says he met with BOM last year to discuss 'cyclones and floods' after government blasted for refusing to heed warnings

Scott Morrison says he is pleased he spoke with experts from the Bureau of Meteorology last year about summer cyclones and floods. It comes as former emergency service chiefs accused the Morrison government of "bungling" the flood disaster.

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Anthony Albanese now level with Scott Morrison as 'better PM': Newspoll

Anthony Albanese is now level with Scott Morrison as “better prime minister” for the first time in more than two years in Newspoll, as Labor retains its 55-45% two-party lead.

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Anthony Albanese says he is ‘hungry’ for election win and has learned from Labor’s past ‘mistakes’

Opposition leader tells Channel Nine’s 60 Minutes program he is hopeful of victory and voters are tired of Scott Morrison

The Guardian - AU

Petrol prices: Scott Morrison warned over fuel excise tax temptation

Prime Minister Scott Morrison is being warned against a "populist" pre-election fuel tax cut as petrol prices surge on the invasion of Ukraine.

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Australia's vaccine diplomacy in Pacific islands wards off Beijing - PM Morrison

Australia has been able to stop an "incursion" by Beijing into the Pacific islands by talking with leaders there weekly and offering vaccine aid, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Sunday.

Reuters

Scott Morrison leaves open possibility of petrol excise cut in budget

Prime minister said cutting fuel excise did little compared to soaring prices, but did not rule the measure out

The Guardian - AU

People know why petrol prices rising: PM

Prime Minister Scott Morrison says Australians understand the rise in petrol prices is being driven by the war in eastern Europe.

AAP

Labor to consider civilian natural disaster agency as alternative to ADF as recovery focus switches to mental health

Shadow defence minister Brendan O’Connor says defence force should be trained for military purposes, not for disaster response

The Guardian - AU

Nation records 16 Covid deaths; 25% of assessed Hawkesbury-Nepean Valley properties uninhabitable after floods – as it happened

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Grace Tame wows Adelaide Writers Week with a memoir of abuse, courage … and Scott Morrison

Grace Tame took to the stage at Adelaide Writers’ Week, alongside Jess Hill, author of Quarterly Essay 84: The Reckoning: How #MeToo is Changing Australia.

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Scott Morrison defends move to leave Queensland off emergency declaration as ADF boosts flood recovery efforts

The Prime Minister says he's listening to the Queensland Premier by not including the state in a national emergency declaration, as the man coordinating the ADF's flood response confirms a boost in the number of boots on the ground helping to clean up in two states.

Reuters

Australia nears living with COVID like flu - PM Morrison

Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the nation's political leaders want to move to a new phase of living with COVID-19 as though it were the flu, but would consult health experts.

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Scott Morrison says COVID isolation rules for close contacts are redundant

The Prime Minister says current isolation rules for close contacts are starving businesses and hospitals of staff, and maintaining the status quo heading into the winter virus season would be unsustainable.

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Scott Morrison says Covid close contact isolation rule ‘redundant’, more mobile homes on way to NSW flood victims – as it happened

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After the trauma of defeat, it makes sense for Labor to play it safe. But why has it taken so long for Albanese to define himself?

Labor’s current mindset is planning and hoping. But the party needs a gear change to convince voters their leader is the man for the moment

The New Daily

Bridget McKenzie grilled on Today as anger grows at government flood crisis response

The Morrison government's response to the flood crisis in Queensland and NSW has found few fans this week, with some attacks coming from unlikely sources.

The New Daily

The Ferguson Report: Russian oligarchs endure war, sanctions and missing out on Hitler’s car

Meanwhile, in other fake news, Prime Minister Scott Morrison has declared Australia needs more submarines to make travel easier during the floods.

The Guardian - AU

Australia bans imports of Russian oil, petroleum, gas and coal – as it happened

Australia follows lead of US and UK with Russia sanctions; ‘We want tradies to come to Queensland,’ premier says. This blog is now closed

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National Emergency Declared As Flooding Continues To Ravage Australia

This is the second March in a row where heavy rains have brought flooding to coastal portions of Queensland and New South Wales.

The Conversation

Scott Morrison's tone-deaf leadership is the last thing traumatised flood victims need. Here are two ways he can do better

As French statesman Charles de Gaulle once said, when faced with crisis a man of character “falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own”.

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