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Here’s what made headlines today.
- Millions of Australians will have access to 10 days of domestic violence leave after a historic decision by the Fair Work Commission. The decision applies to 2.6 million people employed under modern awards and will likely set a precedent for all employed Australians.
- Prime Minister Scott Morrison warned voters in inner-city Liberal seats they are risking a strong economy if they vote for independents and refused to say whether he’d resign as Liberal leader if the Coalition loses the election. Read Latika Bourke’s wrap up of Morrison’s 7:30 interview.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison almost scores a bullseye in Cairns as he chats with locals.Credit:James Brickwood
- The controversy surrounding the Coalition’s newly announced housing policy continues as the chair of the country’s largest superannuation fund warns the super-for-housing policy will reduce investment returns and push up house prices.
- Scott Morrison has rejected the suggestion he politicised the AUKUS pact by waiting to brief Labor until the day before the deal was announced. This masthead revealed on Saturday that the Biden administration insisted it would only pursue the deal if it had bipartisan support in Australia.
- Labor begged supporters over the weekend for donations to put towards out-spending the Liberals on Google ads. The last-ditch efforts highlight how critical search advertising will be in the last week of the campaign as disengaged Australians ask the internet for help on who they should vote for.
- What earns a young person’s vote? They told us, in words and pictures of their pets.
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Morrison refuses to say whether he’ll quit if he loses majority
By Latika Bourke
And to wrap up the interview, the prime minister successfully evades answering questions about whether he will quit if he loses the Coalition’s majority this weekend.
Scott Morrison says he is “not getting into those scenarios” and will accept the outcome of polls on Saturday.
Blue-ribbon Liberal seats more economically vulnerable: PM
By Latika Bourke
A fascinating response just now from Scott Morrison when asked why so many Liberal seats are vulnerable to teal independents.
The prime minister says he believes that voters in those seats, such as Wentworth, North Sydney and Kooyong, previously felt more insulated from economic shocks.
“As time has gone on, many of these places are less vulnerable to the impacts of the economy, compared to places where I’ve been today,” he says, referencing the Queensland seats of Blair and Leichardt.
“They are places that cannot afford the sort of risk that comes with a Labor Party and leader who is loose on the economy,” he says.
And in a direct plea to those inner-city voters toying with change, he says: “You can’t invest in climate change unless you have a strong economy.”
Don’t you support a pay cut? Sales asks Morrison
By Latika Bourke
Now Leigh Sales has asked the prime minister about his criticism of Anthony Albanese’s support of a 5.1 per cent wage increase for the lowest-paid workers.
The minimum wage is set independently by the Fair Work Commission.
But Scott Morrison says Albanese’s support would see inflation pushed up.
Sales says that must mean that the PM supports a pay cut for the lowest paid, as he has refrained from supporting keeping the minimum wage growing at the same pace as inflation.
Morrison denies this suggestion, saying: “I support wage increases. I want people to be paid more.”
PM: Buying a home is the best economic decision you can make
By Latika Bourke
Now the conversation has turned to the prime minister’s plan to let first home buyers use their superannuation for a home deposit.
Scott Morrison says old criticisms made by Liberal Party luminaries don’t apply to his policy because his proposal includes a new provision that says any capital gain made must be reinvested into super.
Previous suggestions of allowing people to access their super to buy their first home have been rubbished by former prime ministers John Howard, Tony Abbott and Malcolm Turnbull.
The PM says buying a home is the best economic decision a person can make.
Morrison says politicians, not Sports Australia, decide grants
By Latika Bourke
Scott Morrison has been asked about the spending on sports grants in marginal electorates, which critics call pork-barrelling.
The PM says it’s elected politicians, not bureaucrats or Sports Australia, who decide where spending should be allocated.
The Australian National Audit Office had a very different view of the original scheme at the last election. It said the government used the $100 million community sports program as a slush fund for its re-election campaign.
Read more: Government used sporting grants as slush fund for re-election campaign
‘I’m just being honest’: Morrison on why he said he’s a bulldozer
By Latika Bourke
Scott Morrison is appearing on the ABC’s 7.30 from Cairns.
Host Leigh Sales asks him how he came to the conclusion that he’s a bulldozer and why that quality is supposed to upset voters.
He says he was “just being honest” and that he’s been a “bit of a bulldozer” in many of his past jobs.
She says voters are more likely to complain that he’s slippery with the truth and dodges responsibility.
The prime minister rejected those as Labor’s criticisms.
Coming up: Morrison on ABC 7.30
By Latika Bourke
Prime Minister Scott Morrison will be interviewed tonight on the ABC’s 7.30 program.
Morrison on 7.30 with Leigh Sales earlier this month.Credit:ABC
We’ll keep our live coverage going a little later tonight so we can bring you all the updates from what we expect will be the PM’s last head-to-head encounter with Leigh Sales before he faces the polls on Saturday and the host retires.
Albanese requests DJ set on Triple J if elected
By Latika Bourke
Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese is now on Triple J spruiking his rival housing policy – a plan that would see the government take a 40 per cent stake in the equity of homes for up to 10,000 first home buyers.
Despite being pressed about the relatively small number of people that his policy would help, the Labor leader went on the attack.
“Well, this government’s out of touch with how much super young people have in their accounts,” he said.
Albanese performing a DJ set during an event in his electorate in Marrickville in 2017.Credit:James Alcock
He said the scheme had operated with success in Western Australia for decades.
Albanese said he was “more than happy” to fill an entire Hack edition with a DJ set if elected prime minister.
“That’s the deal; give me half an hour,” he pleaded.
The host did not commit to this, saying he didn’t think an entire DJ set was required.
Modelling shows super scheme won’t push up prices long term: Hume
By Latika Bourke
Jane Hume, the minister for superannuation, is speaking on Triple J.
She has been asked about her comment this morning that the government’s proposed scheme to allow first home buyers to access up to 40 per cent of their super for a home deposit would temporarily push up house prices.
Hume says the effect of the government’s home buyer policy would be a short-term rise in house prices.Credit:Justin McManus
She did not resile from her earlier comments, which have been the focus of Labor’s attack on the idea, unveiled on Sunday by Prime Minister Scott Morrison.
“When the policy kicks in, there may be a temporary bump, but it would only be temporary and it wouldn’t be a long-term proposition,” she said.
When asked how she was so confident that the effect would be short term, the minister said: “Because we’ve done modelling that suggests there is no long-term effect from this.”
She said that even if everyone who was eligible used the scheme when it first opened, “it wouldn’t make a significant difference to the $9.9 trillion property market out there”.
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