A YouGov Galaxy poll conducted for The Courier-Mail revealed on Thursday the parties were locked neck-and-neck at 50-50 on a two-party preferred basis.
Efforts by Des Hardman to overthrow incumbent LNP MP Bert van Manen have been hampered by the death of former prime minister Bob Hawke, which diverted a planned visit from Opposition Leader Bill Shorten on Friday. The seat, which stretches from Logan to parts of the Gold Coast, is held by the LNP on a margin of 0.6 per cent. Image: News Corp Australia
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Labor gets pre-poll boost in election-eve Newspoll | Sky News AustraliaLabor has gained a 0.5 per cent boost on the eve of the election to lead the Coalition in two-party preferred terms 51.5 to 48.5, according to a Newspoll in The Australian.\n\nIf that result was applied on a uniform basis, Labor would have a clear majority of 81 seats in the expanded 151 seat parliament.\n\nThe Coalition has lost one point off its primary vote since the previous survey.\n\nThe Liberals and Nationals are on 38, ahead of Labor's 37 which has remained steady since the last Newspoll.\n\nOf the minor parties, the Greens and United Australian Party are steady at nine per cent and four per cent respectively.\n\nPauline Hanson's One Nation has dropped one point to three per cent.\n\nScott Morrison has extended his lead as better prime minister, up two points to 47 per cent.\n\nBill Shorten is steady at 38 per cent.\n\nMr Morrison's approval rating is up one point to 46 per cent whilst Mr Shorten's approval rating continues its upward trend to 41 per cent.\n\nThe Prime Minister's disapproval rating has ticked up one point to 45 per cent but remains lower than the Opposition Leader at 49 per cent.\n\nImage: News Corp Australia\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n election2019 Very hard to find un- bias tv this morning The Aus federal elections are almost always close on a two-party preferred basis and polls suggesting a wide gap more than a few weeks out are invariably wrong.
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Labor confident of winning Chisholm in Melbourne's east | Sky News AustraliaChinese-Australian voters look likely to hold the balance of power in the multicultural Victorian seat of Chisholm in Melbourne's eastern suburbs.\n\nFor the first time in Australian history, both major party candidates are first generation Chinese-Australians, with Gladys Liu running for the Liberal Party and Jennifer Yang standing as the Labor candidate.\n\nMs Yang says she's feeling positive on polling day and is confident that people want to see a change in government.\n\nPreviously held by Julia Banks before she defected from the Liberal Party, Chisholm stands as a potential Labor gain, with the Liberal Party holding the seat with a margin of 2.9 per cent. \n\nLabor leader Bill Shorten is expected to campaign in the key swing seat on Election Day. \n\nImage: News Corp Australia\n\n\n\n\n\n Would explain why the LNP posted AusElectoralCom looking posters (purple and white), in Chinese saying they way to vote is put LNP 1. Legal? Hmmm Ethical? Does the LNP have ethics?
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Dutton faces Labor challenge in Dickson | Sky News AustraliaLabor’s candidate for Dickson says she’s ‘excited’ to finally see her election campaign draw to a close following a huge effort to unseat Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton, including doorknocking thousands of voters. \n\nMr Dutton holds the Queensland seat on a wafer-thin margin of 1.7 per cent, but his comments claiming rival Ali France is using her disability as an excuse to live outside the electorate is not expected to bode well with voters.\n\nMs France has confirmed she lives about five minutes from the seat’s border and has promised to look at a home inside the electorate, should she take the seat. \n\nImage: News Corp Australia \n\n\n\n alifrance5 PeterDutton_MP Get rid of the spud! alifrance5 PeterDutton_MP Lets just do it👍 alifrance5 PeterDutton_MP Good luck hopefully the end of this vile person.
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Labor candidate hopes to continue family legacy in Swan | Sky News AustraliaLabor candidate Hannah Beazley is hoping to continue a family legacy, vying for the seat of Swan in central Perth.\n\nThe seat has been held by the Liberal Party's Steve Irons on a margin of 3.6 per cent since 2007, who won the seat from Ms Beazley's father, and former Labor Party leader, Kim Beazley.\n\nNow the Governor of Western Australia, Mr Beazley was the member for Swan from 1980 until 2007, while his father was the member for Fremantle from 1945 to 1977.\n\nLabor looks set to reclaim Swan, with both bookies and polling indicating it had a strong stake in the seat.\n\nImage: News Corp Australia\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Labor maintains narrow lead over Coalition: Newspoll | Sky News AustraliaThe latest Newspoll indicates the race to Saturday's poll remains a close struggle, with Labor maintaining its lead of 51 per cent to the Liberal's 49 per cent on two-party preferred.\n\nBoth major parties saw increases in the primary vote, with the Liberal Party leading Labor 39 to 37 per cent.\n\nMinor parties saw less action compared to previous weeks, with the Greens remaining static at nine per cent, and One Nation dropping one to four per cent, with Clive Palmer's United Australia Party on par at four per cent.\n\nOpposition leader Bill Shorten crept up three points in the preferred Prime Minister stakes but is still trailing Scott Morrison 38 to 45 per cent.\n\nImage: News Corp Australia \n\n\n\n\n ljayes LiberalAus Policy coming?! Or is it status quo trickledown... ljayes LiberalAus guess the anticipated big dump is really going to be big ljayes LiberalAus Don't worry about polls and I can guarantee it won't be LNP voters who suffer more under a Shorten/DiNatali Govt ...it will be the Labor voters
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Labor vies for Higgins during Liberal campaign launch | Sky News AustraliaAs the Coalition launched its re-election campaign in Melbourne on Sunday, Opposition leader Bill Shorten was across town staking his claim for a number of Liberal-held Victorian seats.\n\nMr Shorten hit the hustings in the inner-Melbourne seat of Higgins, which the Liberal's have held since its 1949 inception.\n\nCurrently held by Liberal MP Kelly O'Dwyer with a 7.4 per cent margin, Mr Shorten backed in the Labor candidate Fiona McLeod, describing her as a 'rock star' and a 'tip-top candidate'.\n\nWhile in Victoria, Mr Shorten also made a record $10 billion pledge to Victoria's Suburban Railway loop.\n\nImage: News Corp Australia\n\n\n\n\n\n\n billshortenmp Been waiting so long but nothing happened billshortenmp billshortenmp
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Labor takes aim at ‘horror budget’ to highlight economic strength | Sky News AustraliaLabor is launching a national campaign to undercut the Coalition’s claim it’s the stronger economic manager by reminding voters of the 2014 ‘horror budget’, handed down under the stewardship of former prime minister Tony Abbott.\n\nThe Opposition will highlight the controversial measures, including a $7 GP co-payment, a six month wait time for Newstart, and purported cuts to schools, hospitals, pensions, the ABC and SBS. \n\nLabor's ‘cuts and chaos’ theme coincides with the fifth anniversary of the budget. \n\nImage: News Corp Australia \n\n\n\n Talk about clutching at straws ... Here we go. All labor have left is mud racking. Who care what happened five years ago. It what going to happen in the future that counts. This is the bill we can't afford. Or you could talk about Howard. Plenty of options of shit house management
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Labor maintains narrow lead over Coalition: Newspoll | Sky News AustraliaThe latest Newspoll indicates the race to Saturday's poll remains a close struggle, with Labor maintaining its lead of 51 per cent to the Liberal's 49 per cent on two-party preferred.\n\nBoth major parties saw increases in the primary vote, with the Liberal Party leading Labor 39 to 37 per cent.\n\nMinor parties saw less action compared to previous weeks, with the Greens remaining static at nine per cent, and One Nation dropping one to four per cent, with Clive Palmer's United Australia Party on par at four per cent.\n\nOpposition leader Bill Shorten crept up three points in the preferred Prime Minister stakes but is still trailing Scott Morrison 38 to 45 per cent.\n\nImage: News Corp Australia \n\n\n\n\n RichardsKel Clings or holds comfortably, like every poll for the last 3 years as voters tire of an exhausted divided government with nothing new to offer this election? auspol RichardsKel Wow, undecided voters deciding an electoral outcome? Who would’ve thought? RichardsKel I want a PM who remains as PM for the full term not this soap opera of switching PM’s when a Party feels like it, I want a Leader, a strong individual who is calm but decisive who will put our country first before their own needs, voted Liberal in past but leaning towards Labor
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Coalition’s self-inflicted wounds not driving voters to Labor | Sky News AustraliaSky News host Peta Credlin says the latest Newspoll shows the Coalition’s self-inflicted wounds over the past few years have not been driving voters to Labor, and have not generated deep support for the Opposition’s ‘soak-the-middle-class’ tax policies.\n\nMs Credlin says there is not deep support for a change of government, with voters not liking what they see of Labor’s policies. \n\nThe political commentator believes this election is one of the most important in a generation and will ‘go down to the wire’. \n\nImage: News Corp Australia\n\n\n\n\n\n\n The bride of Frankenstein would say that! nocredibilty credlin lnp auspol The election will be won on preferences this year Gee, that's not what all the polls say!
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High risk to vote Labor with Greens’ planned hate speech ban: Jones | Sky News AustraliaSky News host Alan Jones says there are high risks being taken if people walk into the ballot box and vote for Labor, due to the Greens’ planned hate speech ban.\n\nMr Jones says Labor will ‘presumably’ adopt the same policy of making hate speech illegal, which he says is subjective.\n\nThe broadcaster says those championing the ban want to ‘shut up’ debate and don’t want an open platform where ideas can be canvassed.\n\nImage: News Corp Australia\n\n AlanJones hate speech is speech that the Far Left hate, this will be the most hard left totalitarian socialist Government in Australia's history AlanJones Isn't that what Alan Jones does best hatespeech AlanJones
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Labor throwing ‘care to the winds’ with long-stay parents visa | Sky News AustraliaPresident of the Australian Population Institute Bob Birrell says Labor has 'consigned care to the winds’ with their ‘open-ended’ parent visa program, which is ‘far more generous’ than any other country in the Western World. \n\nThe Opposition has announced plans to cut the visa fee for parents of immigrants to Australia fee to one-fourth of its current cost and remove the Coalition government’s cap of 15,000 that it is currently subject to.\n\nMr Birrell says the permanent entry parent visa has been around for some years, previously restricted to 7000 per year with onerous eligibility requirements, a product of ‘careful’ management of the family reunion program.\n\n I’m surprised Foxtel only lost $417m last year putting on this shit Credlin Show
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