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Morrison and Albanese accuse the other of fearmongering
Who’s afraid of a scare campaign? Not Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese.
In marginal seats on opposite sides of the country yesterday, they ramped up their fearmongering about their rival as they also accused each other of running scare campaigns.
On the east coast, in the must-hold Brisbane seat of Griffith, Labor used an electric vehicle charger factory as its backdrop to accuse the Morrison government of igniting a “bin fire of lies” on power prices and renewable energy.
Across the Nullarbor, at a robotics factory in Perth, the prime minister laid into his opponent for peddling “despicable lies” to pensioners with baseless claims that their payments would be moved onto a cashless debit card.
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This morning’s headlines at a glance
Good morning and thanks for your company.
It’s Wednesday, April 20. I’m Broede Carmody and I’ll be anchoring our live coverage for the first half of the day. Climate and energy correspondent Mike Foley will be on later this morning to also cover the blow-by-blow of the election campaign.
Here’s what you need to know before we get started.
- Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese have traded barbs during week two of the six-week election campaign. As Lisa Visentin reports, Labor has accused the Morrison government of igniting a “bin fire of lies” over power prices and renewable energy. Meanwhile, the PM says his opponents are telling “despicable lies” to pensioners.
- The leaders of both major parties will debate each other at 7pm AEST in Brisbane tonight. They’ll take questions from undecided voters in a forum to be broadcast on Sky News and moderated by political reporter Kieran Gilbert. Historically, Queensland is crucial for whichever party wishes to form government.
- And in other news, NSW and Victoria are set to shake-up coronavirus isolation rules by the weekend. The Perrottet and Andrews governments are looking to lift isolation rules for household contacts of positive cases who don’t have symptoms and continue to test negative to COVID-19.
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