As it happened Election 2022:Anne Ruston named Scott Morrison’s pick for health minister as Coalition,Labor campaigns continue across the country
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As it happened Election 2022:Anne Ruston named Scott Morrison’s pick for health minister as Coalition,Labor campaigns continue across the country

Scott Morrison has confirmed he wants Social Services Minister Anne Ruston to replace Greg Hunt as health minister should the Coalition win another term of government,Labor leader Anthony Albanese is in Queensland today and the PM is in Sydney.

  • byBroede Carmody

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As it happened Election 2022:$55b Coalition spend on grants sparks ICAC calls;Scott Morrison,Anthony Albanese continue campaigns
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As it happened Election 2022:$55b Coalition spend on grants sparks ICAC calls;Scott Morrison,Anthony Albanese continue campaigns

Taxpayers have funded $55.6 billion in federal grants over less than four years sparking federal ICAC calls,while the Australian Christian Lobby has begun targeting Liberal MPs who crossed the floor on the religious discrimination bill.

  • byAshleigh McMillan andLaura Chung
As it happened:Scott Morrison walks away from federal integrity commission promise;first election debate to be held in Brisbane
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As it happened:Scott Morrison walks away from federal integrity commission promise;first election debate to be held in Brisbane

Moderate Liberals will face integrity campaigners after Prime Minister Scott Morrison abandoned a pledge to set up a corruption watchdog,while a health union wants isolation rules for COVID close contacts scrapped.

  • byAshleigh McMillan andAmelia McGuire
As it happened:PM grilled over no federal integrity commission;Anthony Albanese says Labor will turn back people-smuggling boats
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As it happened:PM grilled over no federal integrity commission;Anthony Albanese says Labor will turn back people-smuggling boats

Scott Morrison will campaign in Tasmania today,Labor is defending its decision to temporarily shelve changes to JobSeeker payments and the Greens continue to call for an expansion of Medicare.

  • byBroede Carmody,Lisa Visentin andAmelia McGuire
As it happened:Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese continue campaigns across the country;PM heckled by activist at Sydney event
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As it happened:Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese continue campaigns across the country;PM heckled by activist at Sydney event

Foreign workers will be needed to meet the prime minister’s 1.3 million jobs target,Labor is promising to roll out urgent care clinics and the Greens want Medicare expanded to cover going to the dentist.

  • byBroede Carmody,Lisa Visentin andAmelia McGuire
Election 2022 LIVE updates:Scott Morrison,Anthony Albanese continue campaigns across the nation;Liberal seats under threat from independents
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Election 2022 LIVE updates:Scott Morrison,Anthony Albanese continue campaigns across the nation;Liberal seats under threat from independents

Scott Morrison will today promise to create 1.3 million jobs over the next five years,Anthony Albanese will make mental health his priority and the Greens have dismissed the Labor leader’s recent economic gaffe.

  • byBroede Carmody,Lisa Visentin andPallavi Singhal
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China hits back at US over ‘groundless virus accusation’

Beijing has strongly defended its measures to curb the virus outbreak.

As it happened:Dozens of Ukrainians killed after railway station shelling;PM banned from entering Russia;wild weather continues in NSW
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As it happened:Dozens of Ukrainians killed after railway station shelling;PM banned from entering Russia;wild weather continues in NSW

Russia has been suspended from the United Nations human rights body,and Australia’s big four banks have signalled that interest rates will be hiked repeatedly in the six months following the election.

  • byAshleigh McMillan andAmelia McGuire
As it happened:Scott Morrison set to call 2022 election as soon as Friday;floods in Sydney spark evacuation orders;Western allies announce new Russian sanctions
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As it happened:Scott Morrison set to call 2022 election as soon as Friday;floods in Sydney spark evacuation orders;Western allies announce new Russian sanctions

The Prime Minister has been heckled by a pensioner in regional NSW,the United States has targeted Vladimir Putin’s daughters with economic sanctions and Sydney residents are on flood alert.

  • byBroede Carmody andAmelia McGuire
As it happened:EU considering sanctions on Putin’s daughters;Australia to build hypersonic missiles under AUKUS update
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As it happened:EU considering sanctions on Putin’s daughters;Australia to build hypersonic missiles under AUKUS update

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called on the United Nations to remove Russia from the Security Council,Australia will build hypersonic missiles with the United States and Britain and Labor will push for the country to host major international climate talks if it wins government.

  • byBroede Carmody andAmelia McGuire
Australia news LIVE:Biden says Putin should face war crimes trial after civilians killed in Ukraine;UN says it’s ‘no longer plausible’ to keep global warming to 1.5 degrees
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Australia news LIVE:Biden says Putin should face war crimes trial after civilians killed in Ukraine;UN says it’s ‘no longer plausible’ to keep global warming to 1.5 degrees

The world is condemning Russia’s actions in Ukraine after hundreds of bodies were found near Kyiv,the UN Secretary-General has slammed the “litany of broken promises” when it comes to climate change and state and territory governments are mulling when to ease isolation rules for COVID-19 close contacts.

  • byBroede Carmody andPallavi Singhal