Anthony Albanese has accused Scott Morrison of breaking trust with the Biden administration by not briefing Labor well before the announcement of the AUKUS defence pact. Follow our live coverage here:
He says over the past two years Australians needed “needed my protection, needed my strength” but now “they need my encouragement, they need my facilitation”.
He announced almost $1 billion in new Medicare funding - if he’s elected on May 21 - with $750 million over three years to go to a new Strengthening Medicare Fund.International laws not breached by Chinese ship off Australia’s coast: PMScott Morrison has refused to go as far as Defence Minister Peter Dutton in calling the presence of a Chinese ship off Australia’s west coast an “aggressive act”.
Morrison conceded on Friday that he would have to change some aspects of how he operated if he won the election.James Brickwood “And that was necessary to ensure that Australia was able to not just come through this pandemic [but to] make many decisions and make many decisions quickly,” he said.“I’ve had to take decisions not all of which are popular, and not all of which people would agree with and not on every occasion… because we’re dealing with a global pandemic and we had to move fast. And we had to get things as right as we possibly could.
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