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Gains for Labor in three post-budget polls, as budget has weak response compared with historical record

The polls presented here are in addition to Monday’s Newspoll (54-46 to Labor) and Ipsos (55-45 to Labor), which I covered here.

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Coalition and Greens gain in post-budget Newspoll as an Ipsos poll gives Labor a large lead

This week’s Newspoll, conducted March 31 to April 3 – the days following the March 29 budget –from a sample of 1,531, gave Labor a 54-46 lead, a one-point gain for the Coalition since the last Newspoll, three weeks ago.

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Former UAP candidate Timothy Banfield blasts 'party of freedom' as authoritarian

Former NSW United Australia Party candidate Timothy Banfield says party members must adhere to an authoritarian structure that bans them from speaking to the media.

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Mixed results for Labor in nine federal seat polls, but a national Morgan poll gives Labor a massive lead

Telereach conducted nine polls in federal seats from March 17-19 for the News Ltd tabloids. All seats had a sample of about 800 according to Kos Samaras. The seats polled were Coalition-held Bass (Tas), Boothby (SA), Chisholm (Vic), Flynn (Qld), Reid (NSW), Swan (WA) and Longman (Qld), and Labor-held Dunkley…

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Why 'freedom' is not the only thing worth fighting for

With just two months to go before a federal election is due, we are being bombarded by broadcast ads and yellow billboards around Australia. Funded by Clive Palmer and endorsing his United Australia Party (UAP), they carry a simple message: FREEDOM FREEDOM FREEDOM.

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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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Tessa was signed up as a member of the United Australia Party without her knowledge, and she's not alone

Brisbane woman Tessa Feinberg Large is one of several people reporting having received membership confirmation emails from the United Australia Party, despite not signing up.

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Kelly’s heroes: can the UAP’s politics of anger derail the Australian election?

The number of people finding resonance with the ‘freedom’ message of Clive Palmer’s United Australia party cannot be ignored

The Guardian - AU

Doubts raised about UAP’s 80,000 membership amid complaints over unsolicited emails

More people say they have received emails welcoming them to Clive Palmer’s United Australia party despite not signing up

The Guardian - AU

Unions to highlight Clive Palmer’s track record as an employer in federal election campaign

ACTU set to target blue-collar workers in bid to dissuade voter support for United Australia Party

The Guardian - AU

Clive Palmer's UAP is spending big in the upcoming federal election. Here's what we learned about its candidates

In its most-recent advertising, Clive Palmer's United Australia Party (UAP) printed the names, photos and numbers of 151 of its candidates. Here's what we found after calling and investigating the digital footprints of each of them.

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Ivermectin proponents are using an editing error on A Current Affair to claim the Queen is being treated with the drug

An editing blunder on Channel Nine's A Current Affair has this week led to a slew of misinformation, with some using it to claim the Queen is being treated for COVID-19 with ivermectin.

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United Australia party’s $80m-plus war chest sparks call to limit election spending

Integrity blueprint aims to remove the influence of money in federal politics and fix ‘weakest donation laws in the country’

The Guardian - AU

Clive Palmer’s lower-house ticket is stacked with anti-vaxxers and an Elvis impersonator

The candidate list for Clive Palmer's United Australia Party is full of anti-vaccine mandate campaigners and anti-lockdown protestors.

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United Australia candidate deletes tweet about family link to former PM Joseph Lyons

UAP candidate Elijah Suares said Joseph Lyons was his great-grandmother’s uncle in a now-deleted tweet

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Clive Palmer and the United Australia Party claim three former prime ministers as their own. Is that correct?

United Australia Party chairman Clive Palmer claims Sir Robert Menzies, Joseph Lyons and Billy Hughes as former prime ministers who were leaders of his party. RMIT ABC Fact Check investigates.

The Guardian - AU

United Australia party candidate told rally she wanted to chant ‘hang Dan Andrews’, footage appears to show

Footage appears to show Rebekah Spelman, UAP candidate for Aston in Melbourne’s east, leading anti-lockdown rally in a chant of ‘jail Dan Andrews’

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Clive Palmer’s UAP ‘wrong’ to picture candidate in military uniform, defence watchdog says

Australia Defence Association says ad showing NSW candidate Benjamin Britton in beret risks politicising the defence force

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Election diary: Libs' phantom texter pushes PM's buttons

The latest from the federal election campaign: The Libs' mystery texter, One Nation vaxes on and vaxes off, COVID strikes down candidates and the UAP prepares to form government.

The Guardian - AU

Craig Kelly floats preference offer for Coalition MPs who break ranks in parliament

UAP plans to preference all sitting members of parliament last, but Kelly says he may make exceptions for MPs prepared to support his policies

Wales Online

Flying taxis set to debut in April - with the first in Coventry

The public demonstration will mark the start of plans to launch two hundred flying taxi hubs in the next five years

The New Daily

Committee hears Craig Kelly using loophole to spread COVID misinformation on Facebook, YouTube

A parliamentary committee has grilled Facebook and Google about their hosting of misinformation spread by federal MP Craig Kelly.

The Guardian - AU

60 Covid deaths nationally as PM says rapid antigen tests not being stockpiled – as it happened

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