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NEWS2019ELECTION 26/4/2019. DAY 16Opposition Leader Bill Shorten and Deputy Leader of the Opposition Tanya Plibersek speaking at a press conference after the launch of  ÒAustralian Women, LaborÕs Plan for Equality

Don’t let Bill Shorten within coo-ee of the Lodge

Opposition leader Bill Shorten ­believes the election contest has now become one of “hope versus fear” — and for once he is right. Sensible people have every reason to fear his policies and hope that he never makes it to the Lodge, Piers Akerman writes.

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Barry Humphries who is in Melbourne to perform his new show The Man Behind the Mask where he plays himself.  Picture: David Caird

Mob roams the landscape in a quest for outrage

Renaming ‘The Barry’ the ­Melbourne International Comedy ­Festival Award because entertainer Barry Humphries made casual remarks about transgenderism is a perfect example of ‘illiberal liberals’ looking for an excuse to be outraged.

Lefties make about as much sense as a goose’s fart

Lefties make about as much sense as a goose’s fart

What the ‘woke’ generation needs to know is that a vote for ‘progressive’ Liberals Zali Steggall or Kerryn Phelps will help install the hard-Left-backed Labor Party nominally led by Bill Shorten but not-so-secretly control­led by ultra-Leftist ACTU secretary Sally McManus.

Don’t let ‘Bullsh*t Bill’ fool you on election day

Don’t let ‘Bullsh*t Bill’ fool you on election day

Bill Shorten needs to be called out for what he is — with apologies to sensitive readers — Bullsh*t Bill, Piers Akerman writes, as he discusses Labor’s signature electric car policy where 50 per cent of the vehicles on the road must be electric by 2030.

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NSW Leader of the Opposition Michael Daley at a press conference in Kyogle, Thursday, March 14, 2019. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

Voting Labor will demolish all the good work

With good reason, Christchurch’s sickening terrorist atrocity dampened electioneering in NSW this weekend. But with pre-polling underway, it is more ­important than ever that voters understand the choice they make, Piers Akerman writes.

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Opposition Leader Bill Shorten speaks at the Australian Education Union's annual Federal conference, Melbourne, Friday, February 22, 2019. (AAP Image/Ellen Smith) NO ARCHIVING

Voters get sinking feeling they still can’t trust Labor

Labor is again split over the party’s decision to ignore the pleas of workers in northern Queensland in favour of Green-Left ­activists in the inner-urban areas of southern cities who have adopted the global warming cult as their creed, Piers Akerman writes.

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