And thats all from Scott Morrison on A Current Affair - and from the blog. Well be back tomorrow with more breaking news, COVID-19 updates and reporting from the federal election campaign.
Some of the highlights:
- The Prime Minister says he could have been more sensitive to voters as he defended his track record during the pandemic, saying Australia had weathered COVID-19 better than nearly any other country in the world.
- The topic of costings was high on both the Coalition and Labors campaign agendas today, with the Treasurer Josh Frydenberg releasing the Coalitions costings, which includes a 2 per cent increase to the public sector efficiency dividend to save $3.3 billion dollars.
- Shadow treasurer Jim Chalmers has confirmed Labor will unveil bigger debt and deficits before the election, saying a a couple of billion dollars a year is no big deal, and it is time to flick the switch to quality.
-Opposition leader Anthony, meanwhile, said the Labor partys costings would be unveiled on Thursday after declining to provide a specific timeframe yesterday.
- Albanese also said he would like his legacy to be acting on climate, regardless of the election result on Saturday. He also acknowledged his gaffes during the campaign, saying he is human and had an issue with memory recall.
- The latest early voting numbers came in today, indicating 3.75 million Australians have already cast a ballot. The Australian Electoral Commission said 2.6 million voters have prepolled and 1.15 million submitted a postal vote.
- Former Liberal mainstays went on the campaign trail today to convince voters to cast their ballot for a Morrison government. Addressing voter discontent with the Coalition, former prime minister John Howard said people inevitably tire of governments that have been in power for a while but that it should not influence Liberal voters into casting their ballots for independents instead.
Former foreign affairs minister Julie Bishop said teal independent candidates being elected into parliament would eat the heart out of the Liberal Party and threaten its broad electoral appeal in the future.
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