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Australian election 2016: Bill Shorten hits back at bank threatening Labor over slogan – politics live Australian election 2016: Liberal candidate for NSW seat of Whitlam withdraws from race – politics live
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The first question is on the Liberal candidate Carolyn Currie.
I’m sure we will have a great candidate flying the Liberal flag. She’s made her decision as she is entitled to do so but I’m totally focused on jobs and growth and our national economic plan across the country including in the Illawarra.
Q: How can the country trust any attack on Labor’s costings after Scott Morrison’s $20bn mathematical error yesterday?
I don’t accept the premise of your question, I’m sorry.
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Steaming ahead, with puffing billy. I see what you did there.
Malcolm Turnbull is speaking about tourism, which is Australia’s biggest services export. The prime minister says his economic plan is “steaming ahead”.
Puffing Billy alone has seen phenomenal growth. It should be over 415,000 passengers this year. That’s going to continue to grow. All of this drives jobs. This is vitally important, particularly in regional Australia outside of the big cities. 44% of the tourism dollar is spent in regional Australia.
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I spot a Puffing Billy.
PM meets exchange students from China #ausvotes pic.twitter.com/wez9sd2Tpv
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That’s enough about me. What do you think of me?
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Not on the balls of his feet.
The prime minister was talking about the expansion of the Australian Football League’s Bachar Houli Cup and Leadership Program, which combines culture and sport by engaging Bachar Houli, star Richmond player and AFL Multicultural Ambassador, as a role model and mentor for young people.
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Politicians love a swingerPoliticians love a swinger
Provocative, I know.Provocative, I know.
But we are into the third week of the campaign and the leaders continue their tour around the countryside. They are criss-crossing the country, but the seats are very targeted. You can check out where they have been in this interactive, by the Guardian team.But we are into the third week of the campaign and the leaders continue their tour around the countryside. They are criss-crossing the country, but the seats are very targeted. You can check out where they have been in this interactive, by the Guardian team.
Once again, this map shows that you are unloved unless you reside in a marginal seat. The leaders have headed to western Sydney and the central coast of NSW, northern Queensland and parts of Brisbane, northern Tasmania and a dip into Perth.Once again, this map shows that you are unloved unless you reside in a marginal seat. The leaders have headed to western Sydney and the central coast of NSW, northern Queensland and parts of Brisbane, northern Tasmania and a dip into Perth.
Barnaby Joyce has been diving into his own electorate of New England pretty much every weekend because he faces a challenge from former independent Tony Windsor. It has been remarked many times that this political competition has “tied” Barnaby to his seat. Whether Windsor wins or not - and it remains an uphill battle for Windsor - New England has benefited from this injection of interest.Barnaby Joyce has been diving into his own electorate of New England pretty much every weekend because he faces a challenge from former independent Tony Windsor. It has been remarked many times that this political competition has “tied” Barnaby to his seat. Whether Windsor wins or not - and it remains an uphill battle for Windsor - New England has benefited from this injection of interest.
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On the question of Canada as a destination for asylum seekers, Shorten said Labor would negotiate a regional solution. This has been Labor’s policy since their conference last year. Shorten is not allowing a crack of light between him and the Coalition on this stuff - though he did round on Peter Dutton’s comments about illiterate refugees. On the question of Canada as a destination for asylum seekers, Shorten said Labor would negotiate a regional solution. This has been Labor’s policy since their conference last year. Shorten is not allowing a crack of light between him and the Coalition on this stuff – though he did round on Peter Dutton’s comments about illiterate refugees.
When it comes to negotiating with the governments of specific nations, I pledge I will put our immigration minister on a plane to talk to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. We will negotiate in a fair dinkum manner to make sure we have regional resettlement but never again will we allow the people smugglers back into question.When it comes to negotiating with the governments of specific nations, I pledge I will put our immigration minister on a plane to talk to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. We will negotiate in a fair dinkum manner to make sure we have regional resettlement but never again will we allow the people smugglers back into question.
This story got legs when Anthony Albanese suggested on Q&A that Canada is among a “range of countries” suited to resettle Australia’s asylum seekers.This story got legs when Anthony Albanese suggested on Q&A that Canada is among a “range of countries” suited to resettle Australia’s asylum seekers.
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Shorten is asked about the Heritage Bank, which is threatening Labor over using the slogan “putting people first”, which the bank claims is its own. Shorten uses the story to highlight Labor’s slogan and segues into the party’s support for a banking royal commission.Shorten is asked about the Heritage Bank, which is threatening Labor over using the slogan “putting people first”, which the bank claims is its own. Shorten uses the story to highlight Labor’s slogan and segues into the party’s support for a banking royal commission.
When I get criticised by a bank, I hardly call that a remarkable event because Labor is committed to a royal commission into the banking sector. We are not going to let go of this issue. We are the voice of millions of Australians who want to see abetter ethical standard from our banking sector. Mr Turnbull never talks about a banking royal commission. When you hear a financial institution attacking Labor, I have to say back: Why is it that financial institutions are so desperate to avoid the public scrutiny of a banking royal commission? If elected on July 2nd, Labor will implement a banking royal commission because we believe the scandals need to stop. When I get criticised by a bank, I hardly call that a remarkable event because Labor is committed to a royal commission into the banking sector. We are not going to let go of this issue. We are the voice of millions of Australians who want to see a better ethical standard from our banking sector. Mr Turnbull never talks about a banking royal commission. When you hear a financial institution attacking Labor, I have to say back: why is it that financial institutions are so desperate to avoid the public scrutiny of a banking royal commission? If elected on July 2nd, Labor will implement a banking royal commission because we believe the scandals need to stop.
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Bill Shorten is asked about the Peris replacement. He says Labor is working through the processes. Bill Shorten is asked about Nova Peris’s replacement. He says Labor is working through the processes.
Because there is only six weeks before the election, he does not countenance a suggestion that the Northern Territory Labor branch should pick the candidate – given the controversy over Peris’ parachuting into the spot. Because there is only six weeks before the election, he does not countenance a suggestion that the Northern Territory Labor branch should pick the candidate – given the controversy over Peris’s parachuting into the spot.
Asked whether he would like to see an Indigenous woman candidate, Shorten says he would like to see “the best candidate”.Asked whether he would like to see an Indigenous woman candidate, Shorten says he would like to see “the best candidate”.
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Bill Shorten is speaking now about the importance of research for ovarian cancer. He is announcing $8m for support and research.
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Currie says she did not receive support from the party. Here are some excerpts from the ABC Illawarra interview.
RHEINBERGER: Did you get resistance from the local Liberal branches?
CURRIE: Yes, yes absolutely.
RHEINBERGER: Well, what happened?
CURRIE: They don’t want it; they didn’t want a candidate to nominate in the first place.
RHEINBERGER: What, they didn’t want a candidate in the first place, it wasn’t about you, and they didn’t want any candidate running?
CURRIE: They didn’t want a Liberal party candidate. I was told quite clearly that there although there might be a number of people who are not official members of the Liberal party but would help me; the official members of the Liberal party members would not! In fact, possibly do the opposite.
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RHEINBURGER: Okay, how did you get the message that they didn’t want to run a candidate at all, let alone you, who told you that?
CURRIE: They told me!
RHEINBURGER: Who told you that?
CURRIE: I can’t disclose confidential inside information, However –
RHEINBURGER: Was it a vote of a branch, a particular person within the Liberal party in the Illawarra?
CURRIE: No look, you’re probably going to lead to my expulsion, very shortly. It was actually what they call an FEC meeting – FEC is the Federal Electoral Conference and I was informed by a number of people, mainly females, that they did not want a candidate at all.
RHEINBURGER: How did it get that far and to the point where you have to resign?
CURRIE: I was installed over the heads of state exec, which happens the same as Trades Hall Labor party. That where you have problems within a branch the central body will endorse the candidate. Then all the branches have to fall behind him. I can’t say more at this point time. I have done the right thing by my party, by country, by this area.
RHEINBURGER: Are you relieved?
CURRIE: I can’t do anymore? Goodbye.
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Withdrawing Liberal candidate for seat of Whitlam, Carolyn Currie, says seat needs an independent or Green
Carolyn Currie:
It needs a very, very strong person who can unite a number of people to preserve it – possibly an independent, possibly a Green. But somebody with a lot of leverage in what looks like being a very divided government on a knife edge. To be able to instrumentalise the best outcomes for this area. I cannot offer that and meanwhile I don’t believe that I need to be a sacrificial lamb, travelling a number of steep inclines that have yet to be fixed.
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I am a general with no troops: Liberal candidate withdraws
Here is Carolyn Currie, Liberal candidate, withdrawing from a very short race in the safe Labor seat of Whitlam (formerly Throsby).
I’ve come to the decision to withdraw. I’ve encountered some remarkable geographic locations; it is an area that needs a remarkable person who can drive vast distances up a number of inclines. It also needs someone who can unite a couple of very disparate groups. Now at the moment there are no Liberal party branches in the Illawarra and there are only three in the Highlands. Therefore I am like a general with no troops. It is very difficult for me to mount any sort of reasonable campaign with no troops, as any general would know. This is a remarkable area; it needs quite a unique person to represent the disparate groups.
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Here is a little bit of Currie from a couple of weeks ago on ABC Illawarra.
I’m Dr Carolyn Currie, I’m 66, I’m still working – unfortunately I can’t work in the preferred area that I would like to live in, which is the Highlands, but I have a home there. I bought a beautiful place in Bundanoon which was the old police station, the old electoral office, the savings bank etc and it was set up by a local family because of the fights and disorder that break out between timber merchants, railway workers and miners.
I’ve been going to that area since I was a child because my uncle was the MLC for the area and his wife was my aunt. They had a dairy farm so I used to spend a lot of time in the Southern Highlands as well as in what I call the “lowlands” because we used to holiday down there and I married a boy from the Gong ... my fifth degree was from the ‘Gong in forensic accounting. I just love the area and my motivation for standing is that I do not want to see the water resources of that area depleted and I believe it is a federal issue when water is affected by coal-mining and inappropriate coal-mining in certain areas.
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While I’m chasing that, tell me if this makes you feel warm and fuzzy. I note they have a big CHANGE which will frighten the Nats no end.
If we embrace the future with confidence and a clear plan then we will succeed like we have never succeeded beforehttps://t.co/OJjtrb88HM
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I am just chasing down the spectacular interview by Carolyn Currie, a Mosman-based, former merchant banker candidate who only announced her candidacy two weeks ago.
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Liberal candidate for NSW seat of Whitlam, Dr Carolyn Currie, has quit.She told ABC she's like "a candidate with no troops" #ausvotes
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Bill Shorten has morning tea with family and survivors of ovarian cancer in Melb. @gabriellechan @GuardianAus pic.twitter.com/xrXkcsyXli
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This is kinda brilliant. The finance minister, Mathias Cormann, is a machine as campaign spokesman. He rarely strays from the daily lines as was made clear Lenore and Katharine’s podcast. But here he is praising Bill Shorten to the heavens.
LOTO @billshortenmp gets some unintended compliments from @MathiasCormann https://t.co/jDAmNB3OQ7 #ausvoteshttps://t.co/MT6J3vlQem
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