also shows the coalition’s primary vote has risen to 39 per cent and Labor’s to 37 per cent.
Australian Opposition Leader Bill Shorten poses for photographs with his dog Tilley in the suburb of Moonee Ponds in Melbourne. Picture: AAP/Lukas CochOpposition leader Bill Shorten’s personal approval rating is up three points to 38 per cent, while Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s has dropped slightly to 45 per cent.
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Coalition can still win from behind after Newspoll’s 49:51 to Labor: Kroger | Sky News AustraliaThe latest Newspoll shows the race to next Saturday’s poll remains tightly contested, with Labor maintaining their lead of 51 per cent to Liberal’s 49 per cent two-party preferred.\n\nBoth major parties saw primary vote rises, with Liberal at 39 per cent and Labor at 37 per cent. \n\nThe Greens have remained static at nine per cent, while One Nation has dropped one to four per cent, with Clive Palmer’s Australia United Party also at four per cent. \n\nIn the preferred Prime Minister stakes, Labor leader Bill Shorten has crept up three per cent to 38 per cent, but still behind Scott Morrison at 45 per cent. \n\nSky News contributor Michael Kroger says the Coalition can still win on 49 per cent, with a chance of a pathway to victory.\n\nImage: News Corp Australia\n\n Okkkkkkkkk like we prefer one over the other DEMOCROCY IS DEAD facebook is our Leader now. Some should remind Bill. When the polls are 51-49 like they are now. The incumbent has been return 12/12 times this happened. Australia let's make it 13/13 and give Scott Morrison a chance to lead us for the next three years.
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Labor poised to win election: Newspoll, Ipsos | Sky News AustraliaLabor remains on track to win the federal election, according to the two-party preferred results in two opinion polls released overnight.\n\nHowever, they show widely different movements in Bill Shorten's ratings. \n\nThe Ipsos poll indicates the Opposition Leader has risen by five points as preferred prime minister.\n\nThe latest Newspoll contradicts the results, showing Prime Minister Scott Morrison gaining ground as the preferred leader of Australia, cementing his position 46 to 35.\n\nImage: News Corp Australia \n\n\n\n PerrettReport TonyAbbottMHR JuliaGillard So, seeing as how you lot keep saying billshortenmp is so unpopular. You have finally admitted people are voting for bill!
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Hung parliament ‘quite likely’ | Sky News AustraliaSky News Political Editor David Speers says while Labor remains the favourite to win the federal election, polls show a hung parliament is ‘quite likely.’\n\nThe latest Newspoll shows Labor maintaining its narrow 51-49 lead over the Coalition.\n\nIf replicated nationally on May 18, Labor would government in majority, winning 77 of the 159 lower house seats.\n\nHowever, the polls have narrowed in the government’s favour during the election campaign.\n\nMr Speers says despite this tightening, the Coalition ‘needs to do better’ if it is to win a third term in office.\n\nHe says the outcome remains ‘too close to call’, with the prospect neither party could secure the requisite 75 seats to govern without the support of independents.\n\n\n David_Speers Lol if you think that it'll be anything other than a whitewash, you're deluding yourself David_Speers What rubbish David_Speers I said this from the upset! This will happen. I’m telling you. clivepalmerm or PaulineHansonOz may be the king maker!😳
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Labor promises budget surplus and tax relief in policy costings announcement | Sky News AustraliaPRESS CONFERENCE: Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen says Labor will deliver bigger budget surpluses and bigger investments in health and education, while also assuming tax relief going forward. \n\nDelivering the Labor Party’s policy costings on Friday, Mr Bowen said a Shorten-led Labor government would deliver a budget surplus 40 per cent larger than the Coalition's. \n\nHe says the forecasts take into account all of Labor’s policies, spending and revenue, and the assumption that a Shorten Labor government will deliver further tax relief when the tax to GDP ratio is 24.3 per cent. \n\nImage: News Corp Australia \n\n\n\n\n Bowenchris WT actual F ... why does this article not start with the sentence ... 30 years since labours last surplus, this sock puppet, thinks he can deliver one. I am no conspiracy theorist but come on ... the fact not one journalist has said this is gaslighting at its worst ... Bowenchris Bill Shorten Labor pledges larger surpluses if elected 2007-13 Labor Chris Bowen claiming credit for a surplus that was never delivered. In fact in that year he delivered $54.5 billion deficit. Bowenchris Why don’t they take the money from their Future Fund of which tax payers money creates, instead of taking from out Super Funds. What a pack of thieves.
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Labor to spend $1b on bullet train route from Melbourne to Brisbane via SydneyLabor has promised to spend $1 billion buying a corridor of land between Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney and Brisbane to build a future high-speed rail link. It’s definitely a necessary project, but what ever you do, please get expert advice from the Japanese! Why would you want to get a train when you can fly for a fraction of the time and cost? This is just typical labor rhetoric. Finally!!
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Labor is promising 'economic magic pudding': Cormann | Sky News AustraliaFinance Minister Mathias Cormann says Labor is promising an ‘economic magic pudding’ because the party is announcing policies and surpluses that are ‘too good to be true’. \n\nOpposition leader Bill Shorten has promised a budget surplus twice as big as the Coalition’s, a commitment Mr Cormann puts down to $387 billion in higher taxes the Labor Party will impose on Australians if it wins government. \n\nLamenting Labor’s surplus promise, Mr Cormann said he was awaiting the party’s costings, due to be released on Friday, to see if the party would be transparent or ‘hide things’. \n\n‘When it comes to this proposition of a higher surplus, let’s see whether they’ve included the cost of increasing foreign aid, the cost of increasing the dole and the full cost of increased wages for childcare workers,’ he says. \n\n\n\n\n\n MathiasCormann It’s an old and lame reference MathiasCormann More baseless and unfounded knee-jerk trash from the Belgian Waffle, as he vibble-vobbles inevitably down the political S-bend to obscurity where he rightly belongs. political_alert MathiasCormann From the party saying 'we have delivered a surplus next year'
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Labor poised to reveal policy costings | Sky News AustraliaLabor is set to reveal it's policy costings with just over a week before the nation hits the polls on May 18.\n\nThe Opposition says the figures will justify its proposed policies to voters and also hit back on the Coalition's line of attack.\n\nLabor is also expected to try and reach further refugee resettlement deals with other countries.\n\nIt comes as Prime Minister Scott Morrison mocks Labor's ability to secure a better agreement with the United States.\n\nImage: News Corp Australia Bowenchris Crap Bowen. Bowenchris Bullshit chris. You have already done rxactly what you said ypu wouldn't when tje budget was release in April. Stop the lies Chris. Where is climate sham costings? That's right you want a blank cheque for that policy. ausvotes
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Labor costings reveal bigger surplusBREAKING: Labor says it will reform Australia’s “two-class tax system” and is promising to deliver a Budget surplus double that of the Coalition’s. AusVotes19 auspol The two classes are the bottom 50% who pay zero net tax and the top 50% which carry the whole tax burden. Labor plans to make those already paying everything to pay more to cover the 50% that contribute didly shit. Now you’re embarrassing yourself Bill. Lovely photo Bill. Did they take that after you announced your budget lies...
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Labor promises an extra $1.2 billion in foreign aid in surprise fundingLabor revealed the spending in its list of policy commitments after years of dispute over the cuts to foreign aid. What does 'reversing Age Pension cuts' actually mean in $ terms - no details? Wondering if SenatorWong will shake anyone’s hand? poorform Foreign aid, not for our farmers, not for our indigenous, just to score points with corrupt, jet-setting, UN officials.
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Campaign turns 'fishy' as Labor releases its federal election costingsFrom real fish to metaphors, day 29 of the federal election campaign takes an aquatic turn. Fishy? Labor managed finances through ideals rather than economic reality Scott is the realistic father Bill is the naive know it all student Biased
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Labor election plan risks the rise of 'zombie' taxesJust as the Coalition struggled with 'zombie savings' that it proposed but could not legislate over the past six years, a Shorten government risks having 'zombie taxes' on its books. CroweDM Similar to the zombie journalism we find since the SMH was swallowed by the Ch.9 entertainment enterprise. CroweDM Is Murdoch your daddy that he says to you what to write?have you got evidence of that have you done your sums well? CroweDM We should be taxing zombies. They add nothing to society, they add massively to our hospital waiting lists and they smell. like really really badly.
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