Prime minister expected to kickstart Australian election campaign with Labor battling to hold off Peter Dutton’s Coalition. Follow today’s news live
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Prime minister to give election date at 8am
Well we are finally here folks, it’s been a huge budget week, and no doubt the election announcement this morning takes some of the wind out of the sails of Peter Dutton’s budget reply last night (which you can recap here)
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