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Labor anger after NBN employee spread raid photos before files were sealedALP complains to Australian federal police that photos taken and disseminated from raid on Stephen Conroy’s office could have included its broadband policy
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Campaign catchup: daggers drawn over federal police NBN raidElection 2016: Labor and Coalition swap barbs after raid on office of Stephen Conroy, while Fremantle loses another candidate, writes Elle Hunt
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Australian election campaign tracker: where have Shorten and Turnbull been and what have they promised?Here you can see where they have been the most, what kind of seats they are visiting and what they have announced
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Poll of polls: who will win the Australian election?Our statistical model combines all opinion polls to get a better estimate of the Coalition’s two-party preferred vote
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Budget numbers in context: how many submarines in the deficit?There are just 8.9 submarines in the deficit, or 10.6bn coffees. Here, we’ve put some of the numbers from the budget in context by showing how many items you could get for the same amount
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Political messaging is about emotions and each party offers its own positive message, and a bad memory about the other sideLabor and the Coalition push feelings as much as facts in this election campaign
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Western Sydney returns to election battlefield in fight to convince 'real Australia'Who wins the 2016 election may rest in western Sydney’s outer-suburban electorates. But whether the prime minister can appeal to the same voters Howard once wooed remains a great unknown
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Why are Labor and the Greens at war? - Australian politics live podcast with Lenore Taylor and Katharine MurphyLenore Taylor and Katharine Murphy discuss the tension between Greens and Labor with Ben Oquist and Michael Cooney
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Brenda explained the plan. They crowdfund a flotilla of actual boats to sail to Nauru and then to Manus Island to pick up all the illiterate asylum seekersBrenda the Civil Disobedience Penguin's plan for Peter Dutton: Operation Do-gooder!
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Follow the leader: 48 hours on the campaign trail with Mike Bowers – videoGuardian Australia’s photographer-at-large, Mike Bowers, takes you inside the Australia 2016 election campaign trail, compressing 48 long hours of behind-the-scenes lunacy into less than 60 seconds
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Shorten on federal police raids: 'It's an extraordinary development' – videoOpposition leader Bill Shorten answers questions on Thursday night about the AFP raids on Senator Stephen Conroy’s Melbourne office and the home of a Labor staffer over alleged NBN leaks
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Shorten on Dutton's comments: 'Pauline Hanson would've been proud' – videoBill Shorten responds to comments by the immigration minister, Peter Dutton, describing refugees as ‘illiterate and innumerate’. The Labor leader says ‘Pauline Hanson would’ve been proud’ to have made the remarks and labelled them ‘deeply divisive and offensive’
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Bill Shorten and Malcolm Turnbull swap barbs over multinational tax in election debate – videoBill Shorten says it’s outrageous that regular people pay less tax than some multinational corporations, but Turnbull says budget brought in ‘the toughest laws of any OECD country’
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Jobs and growth: Malcolm Turnbull makes it clear he is very keen on jobs and growth – videoThe prime minister masterfully works his ‘jobs and growth’ slogan into an Adelaide press conference a truly remarkable number of times
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Labor hits back at 'not very scary scare campaign' on negative gearing policy – videoChris Bowen says the real estate industry has not released any evidence to back its ‘ridiculous and shrill scare campaign’ against his party’s negative gearing policy
Polls show Coalition and Labor in tight race but Turnbull's popularity sliding