The Liberals are increasingly concerned the safe suburban Melbourne seat of Deakin could fall the other way when votes are counted.
Incumbent MP Michael Sukkar is under increasing pressure from Labor’s Shireen Morris, with recent opinion polls showing the seat is on a knife's edge. The concerns come following the Victorian state election, where comparable state seats experienced a massive swing away from the Liberal Party. Image: News Corp Australia
BridgetOFlynn I’m moving to Melbourne....
so what will happen with Sukkar lying on the qualifications check-list? He is still Norwegian. NorwayinAU hasn't confirmed he has renounced his Norwegian citizenship. Will sky ask or you cant upset your party members
Given all the issues in VIC, how could any person vote labour? It stagers me.
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Michael Sukkar’s Deakin seat swings towards Labor: polling | Sky News AustraliaLiberal MP Michael Sukkar’s seat of Deakin, in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs, has swung towards Labor.\n\nPolling published in the Herald Sun reveals the Coalition’s primary vote has crashed by more than 6 per cent.\n\nLabor's primary vote has increased by 7 points to 37 per cent, according to a survey of more than 540 voters. \n\nMr Sukkar holds the seat on a margin of 6.5 per cent. \n\nImage: News Corp Australia\n\n\n\n\n Good. No succour for that Sukkar This can’t be happening. Who let this happen?
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Michael Sukkar’s Deakin seat swings towards Labor: polling | Sky News AustraliaLiberal MP Michael Sukkar’s seat of Deakin, in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs, has swung towards Labor.\n\nPolling published in the Herald Sun reveals the Coalition’s primary vote has crashed by more than 6 per cent.\n\nLabor's primary vote has increased by 7 points to 37 per cent, according to a survey of more than 540 voters. \n\nMr Sukkar holds the seat on a margin of 6.5 per cent. \n\nImage: News Corp Australia\n\n\n\n\n Good. No succour for that Sukkar This can’t be happening. Who let this happen?
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Childcare wages subsidy previously rejected by Productivity Commission | Sky News AustraliaThe Productivity Commission reportedly dismissed subsidising the wages of childcare workers following a comprehensive review of the sector in 2015.\n\nThe Australian reports the commission advised against a push for staff subsidies, saying they were likely to be ‘ineffective’ and ‘inefficient’.\n\nIt comes after Labor pledged to spend $10 billion to boost the wages of childcare workers if it wins the election.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n That doesn’t buy votes though. time for another look then The fake childcare ring caught were paying well enough
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Labor don’t ‘let on’ how much they plan to change Australia | Sky News AustraliaSky News host Peta Credlin says Labor don’t ‘let on’ how much they want and plan to change Australia.\n\nMs Credlin says she believes Labor policies on gender, immigration and franking credits deserved a more transparent debate over the past five weeks of the election campaign. \n\nMs Credlin says the ‘absence of debate’ during the campaign shows ‘how effectively the Left control much of the media in the country’.\n\nImage: News Corp Australia\n Hell yes. It's a sick perversion of society but ScottMorrisonMP is a quiet pussy on this stuff Oh ffs... has she been under a rock or something
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Concerns over policy to free up beds at Royal Hobart Hospital | Sky News AustraliaThere are concerns a plan to free up beds at Tasmania's busiest hospital could see patients left waiting in dining rooms and corridors.\n\nRoyal Hobart Hospital’s management is set to introduce a new policy whereby 20 areas of the hospital will be set aside for patients to sit in chairs or trolleys ahead of discharge.\n\nImage: News Corp Australia\n\n\n\n\n\n\n And with shortonbrains policy with his unrestricted entry of immigrants elderly relatives, if you think it's not going to affect the waiting list for elective surgery well you must be living in fantasy land.
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Labor’s move to ‘copy’ home deposit plan proof of quality: Frydenberg | Sky News AustraliaFULL INTERVIEW: Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has stood his ground on the Coalition’s decision to go ahead with a plan designed to crack open the housing market to first home buyers — a decision made without a tick from the government's cabinet.\n\nUnder the plan announced by the Prime Minister on Sunday, and promptly matched by Labor, first home buyers would be able to purchase their home with a deposit of just five per cent, capped at 10,000 loans per year.\n\nMr Frydenberg told Sky News on Wednesday that ‘it’s obviously good enough for the Labor Party to copy without even seeing the full details.’\n\nImage: News Corp Australia \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n JoshFrydenberg It must be a good policy or otherwise Labor would not have said they would do it also JoshFrydenberg Not only Morrison but now Frydemburg start making coalition policy alone without cabinet approval. A party in complete chaos and disarray. JoshFrydenberg AustralianLabor have not got a single original thought policy. They copy everything. EV policy copied from Norway. Climate policy from the UN. Other policies from socialist manifesto including higher taxes. ausvotes
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Bill Shorten should ‘worry’ about Labor’s soft primary vote: Howard | Sky News AustraliaJohn Howard has sounded a warning to Opposition Leader Bill Shorten ahead of the May 18 federal election.\n\nThe former prime minister has told Sky News Political Editor David Speers that the Labor Leader should ‘worry’ about its soft primary vote.\n\nImage: News Corp Australia \n\n\n\n Why he looking like he bout to cry tho Howard supports a man convicted of raping a child. Nothing he says matters.
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Labor reassures voters on franking credits plan | Sky News AustraliaBill Shorten has moved to quell voter concern about his party's franking credit policy as he hit the hustings in the Tasmanian seat of Braddon.\n\nSpeaking on Tuesday from a Tasmanian hospital in Cooee, Mr Shorten said the ‘hard reform’ is a crucial sacrifice Australians need to take to prop up life-saving healthcare services. \n\nIf elected, Labor will stop shareholders who pay no income tax, mostly self-funded retirees, from getting a cash rebate from the tax office for their dividends.\n\nThe Opposition Leader jetted to the South Australian electorate of Boothby on Tuesday afternoon, which is the state’s only real battleground seat. \n\nImage: News Corp Australia \n\n\n billshortenmp Billy, Australia is NO mood for change, so I’m guessing you will be resigning from the leadership of of of oh yeah labor party yeah 🤣 billshortenmp Franking credits is only one of the proposed changes. How about changes to trust taxation, SMSF, capital gains tax, negative gearing, budget levy, income tax, limiting cap on accounting advice. These will impact ALL Australians! AUSVote2019 auspol2019 billshortenmp Don't trust shorten.
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Labor, Greens getting away with climate ‘crazy talk’: Kenny | Sky News AustraliaSky News host Chris Kenny says Labor and the Greens are ‘getting away with crazy talk and absurd policies’ targeting climate change and energy, pointing to a left-tilted Q&A appearance on Monday as an example.\n\nMr Kenny says the show’s final pre-election program featured ‘four people who want to see the end of the Coalition government and one trying to defend it’, with no attempt from the host, Tony Jones, to challenge assertions about climate change.\n\nMr Kenny believes the Coalition has not been strong enough at pointing out the left's climate optimism.\n\nHe argues Australia's actions can’t change the global climate.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n WB: All this pain & Cost for what, Australian Chief Scientists you could scrap every bit of man made CO2 in Australia and it would make NO difference to the world temperature Buyers beware👇 The 'crazy talk' is coming from Chris Kenny and co.... meanwhile the Greens and the rest of the world are moving forwards. ausvotes19
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Labor to sink $10b into Melbourne's railway loop | Sky News AustraliaLabor Leader Bill Shorten will on Sunday pledge $10 billion to improve Melbourne’s railways if the party wins the May 18 federal election.\n\nThe injection of funds will go towards the suburban railway loop unveiled by Premier Daniel Andrews in 2018, which is designed to loop through middle and outer suburbs and provide a connection between railway lines that sprawl out from the city centre.\n\nIt builds on the $5 billion promise already made for the new airport rail link, which will be one of the loop's 12 new underground stations.\n\nThe project is expected to get underway in 2022.\n\nImage: News Corp Australia \n\n\n\n\n\n\n Bullshit Bill at it again billshortenmp This is very important for Melbourne. Good move Bill! Waste of time and money Bill. Most people know Melbourne vote Green.
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Labor has no vision for regional Australians: McCormack | Sky News AustraliaDeputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack has taken aim at the Labor Party, insisting the Opposition has failed to deliver for regional Australians.\n\nThe Nationals leader used his opening address to the party faithful to highlight the Coalition’s commitment to regional communities and accused Labor of having ‘no vision’ for ‘those who live off the land’.\n M_McCormackMP ScottMorrisonMP please tell us michael, what has scott morrison done? M_McCormackMP ScottMorrisonMP Can what’s his name tell us a few difficult problems that ScoMo has supposedly fixed? I can’t think of even one... M_McCormackMP ScottMorrisonMP Yep, hides them away, sews their lips shut, hunkers down & bullshits his way thru ..... ArsehatsRUs t a LNPFail Again
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