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The Guardian • Editorial • May 19, 2022 • theguardian.com
The Guardian view on the Australian federal election: say no to spin and inaction
Given the Coalition’s policy vacuum, Labor offers the best hope the country will be able to rise to the challenges ahead
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The Guardian • Elias Visontay • May 19, 2022 • theguardian.com
Monique Ryan to lodge legal challenge after AEC anomaly prevents thousands of Covid-positive Australians voting
Teal independent says she will lodge federal court challenge as AEC admits people who tested positive early this week but didn’t register for postal ballot ‘may not be able to vote’
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Niki Savva • May 19, 2022 • smh.com.au
Dislike of Morrison remains the dominant factor in this campaign
On one issue Liberal and Labor strategists are agreed: dislike of Morrison remains the dominant factor in the campaign.
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The Guardian • Greg Jericho • May 19, 2022 • theguardian.com
Australian wages in real terms are essentially no different from where they were in 2013
Low wages growth, inflation, price rises and jobseeker are combining to put talk of a strong recovery from the pandemic into context
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The Australian • BEN PACKHAM • May 19, 2022 • theaustralian.com.au
Payne’s Pacific push ‘stymied in cabinet’
Cabinets national security committee rejected a push last year by Foreign Minister Marise Payne for Australia to double its Pacific aid funding to counter rising Chinese influence.
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The Guardian • Christopher Knaus • May 19, 2022 • theguardian.com
Scale of Australia’s aged care Covid deaths laid bare as staff prepare to strike
Analysis shows more than 1,400 deaths reported by providers so far in 2022, dwarfing the first two years of pandemic
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The Guardian • Nick Evershed, Josh Nicholas • May 19, 2022 • theguardian.com
Reality cheque: we taught AI to spot the most used props this election. Here’s what it found
Hi-vis workwear and cute dogs have come to dominate politicians’ federal election campaign photos, but giant cheques are out of fashion
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The Guardian • Stephanie Convery • May 19, 2022 • theguardian.com
Desperate tenants are turning to crowdfunding to pay for housing amid Australia’s rental crisis
Accommodation fundraising campaigns quadruple in past year, including appeals for rent and alternative housing like caravans
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The Guardian • Christopher Knaus • May 19, 2022 • theguardian.com
United Australia party and Coalition MPs denounced for ‘totally misleading’ claim about WHO
UAP uses full-page print ads to perpetuate baseless claim about a possible pandemic treaty as calls grow for uniform election media blackout rules
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Crikey • Cam Wilson • May 19, 2022 • crikey.com.au
200,000 Australians with COVID-19 risk not voting after phone option cut off
Hundreds of thousands of COVID-positive electors have been forced to rely on their mail ballots arriving in time.
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cameron wilson@cameronwilson
NEW: There are close to 200,000 Australians who tested positive for COVID, ineligible for phone voting and, unless a mail ballot arrives in time, unable to vote because they're self-isolating.
crikey.com.au/2022/05/19/vot…
May 19, 2022
The Sydney Morning Herald • Alexandra Smith • May 19, 2022 • smh.com.au
Voluntary assisted dying legalised in NSW
Terminally ill people in NSW will be able to access voluntary assisted dying after a historic vote in parliament.
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the Guardian • https://www.theguardian.com/profile/tory-shepherd,https://www.theguardian.com/profile/amy-remeikis,https://www.theguardian.com/profile/adeshola-ore,h… • May 19, 2022 • theguardian.com
Plibersek says Albanese has a ‘tough job’ as polls tighten – as it happened
Follow all the day’s developments live
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Lenore Taylor@lenoretaylor
The Australian Electoral Commission has conceded that tens of thousands of Australians who have tested positive for Covid in recent days, and will be in isolation on polling day this Saturday, risk not having their votes counted this election theguardian.com/australia-news…
May 19, 2022
Human Rights Law Centre • May 19, 2022 • hrlc.org.au
Voting rights must be maintained during pandemic through accessible telephone voting
The Human Rights Law Centre has written to the Australian Electoral Commission seeking urgent clarity around the AEC’s interpretation of phone-voting provisions for Covid-19 affected people ahead of Saturday’s federal election.
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Hugh de Kretser@HughdeKretser
People who can’t vote in person because they are isolating with COVID should be able to vote via phone. It makes no sense to exclude 10,000s of people who tested positive Sunday-Tuesday. The legislation enables phone voting in these circs. @AusElectoralCom hrlc.org.au/news/2022/5/19…
May 19, 2022
The Monthly • Rachel Withers • May 18, 2022 • themonthly.com.au
At what cost?
The press pack is laser focused on something voters don’t really care about
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Max Uechtritz@plesbilongmi
Again .. our industry needs a review and reset after the most appalling campaign performance ( by too many) in Australian election history.
Not just for campaign weeks but political coverage generally a disservice to public.
Onus is on newsroom leaders themonthly.com.au/the-politics/r…
May 19, 2022
The Guardian • Katharine Murphy • May 19, 2022 • theguardian.com
For the 2022 election, we took the temperature of Australia’s marginal seats. Here’s what we learned
The Anywhere But Canberra series sent reporters across the country. The similarities in voter sentiment are striking
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ABC News • Kevin Nguyen, Dunja Karagic • May 19, 2022 • abc.net.au
Linda's a swing voter in Australia's most marginal seat. This is how the major parties are trying to win her over
Both major Australian political parties have amassed data on every eligible voter, which they are using to build detailed profiles on constituents to influence their votes in tight electoral races.
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Kevin Nguyen@cog_ink
Secretive databases built by the major political parties contain profiles on every Australian voter. Yes, that includes you. Insiders say this software has been crucial key victories in marginal battlegrounds. New from @DunjaKaragic and I, for @abcnews
abc.net.au/news/2022-05-1…
May 19, 2022
The Australian • STEPHEN RICE, ZIHAN ZHANG • May 18, 2022 • theaustralian.com.au
‘Silent uprising’ at Beijing bombast
Chinese Australians appear to be abandoning the Coalition in large numbers over the Morrison governments anti-Beijing rhetoric, with potentially disastrous consequences in at least seven marginal seats in Sydney and Melbourne.
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ABC News • Emilia Terzon • May 19, 2022 • abc.net.au
Some boomers say millennials can't buy a house because they are 'greedy', but single mother Shana isn't out for one long brunch
People who bought last century reckon they had it hard with high interest rates. But property prices today have soared well beyond wage growth. Who had it easier may surprise you.
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The Sydney Morning Herald • Anthony Galloway • May 19, 2022 • smh.com.au
Liberal Party supporter working on Reid campaign helped organise crowds for Chinese Premier
A Liberal Party supporter who has been spreading propaganda on WeChat previously visited China at the expense of Beijing’s overseas influence arm.
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Australian Financial Review • Phillip Coorey • May 19, 2022 • afr.com
Coalition closing the gap on Labor in final days
The Morrison government has clawed back significant ground in the last week of the election campaign, and is hoping a 48-year low unemployment rate will help it erode what is still an election-winning lead by Labor.
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