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Thursday election briefing: PM faces heat over federal ICAC promise while Albanese qualifies boat turn backs – plus buttered scones
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Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese both went marginal and regional on Thursday, hitting primary industries centres in Bass and Hunter respectively. As the PM talked logging, Albanese talked coal, with both leaders having to defend crucial candidates who’d recently embarrassed them.
Neither leader dropped a major clanger, but both had some clean-up work to do. Morrison had his most intense grilling of the campaign so far, facing the full blast of the travelling media pack on whether he’d broken a major 2019 election promise by failing to legislate a federal anti-corruption body. Albanese had to give a quick presser after his main presser, to explain that no, he hadn’t just made an off-the-cuff confirmation that Labor would shut down Australia’s offshore detention plans.
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