.ScottMorrisonMP on Sri Lanka attacks: I can confirm, based on the advice we have received, that it was a locally based Islamic terrorist organisation that we believe is responsible for those heinous and cowardly attacks. MORE: newsday
PM pledges $63 million for the well-being of defence personnelBill Shorten marks 68th anniversary of Korean War battle‘Taking the piss out of our lifesavers’ is inappropriate: BirminghamGovernment negotiating Palmer preference deal: reportsPM announces $100 million local community funding in DarwinMorrison targets South Australia amid Palmer poll surgePM not ruling out preference deals with Clive PalmerShorten dismisses concerns regarding Adani dissentShorten promises $1.
Tony Abbott has joined Prime Minister Scott Morrison for the first time during the election campaign as major party leaders called a truce for Good Friday.Sarah Hanson-Young says she will today write to Opposition Leader Bill Shorten to back a royal commission into the Murray-Darling Basin Plan. FULL INTERVIEW: The Prime Minister is the first of the two major party leaders to head to Tasmania for the election campaign, where he's targeted the seat of Braddon held by Labor on a margin of 1.7 per cent.South Australian Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young says Labor has no serious plan to tackle climate change without a strategy to abort Australian coal.
Liberal MP Andrew Hastie says his campaign bus has been the subject of a failed arson attack in Perth's south.Labor is expected to pick up a number of seats from the Coalition in progressive Victorian seats at the upcoming May federal election.
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