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Battle for Chisholm

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Behind the scenes on the campaign for the Victorian seat of Chisholm.

Ground game under scrutiny: what it’s like to cover a marginal seat campaign

The Age covered three key Melbourne seats in great detail, to report on the national campaign through the prism of a local contest. Here’s what it was like.

  • Clay Lucas

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Carina Garland, Zoe Daniel, Michelle Ananda-Rajah and Monique Ryan have toppled Liberal MPs and will join the 47th Australian Parliament.

How your vote changed the face of Melbourne

Four Melbourne seats won by independent and Labor women contributed to the Coalition’s downfall, while another hangs in the balance.

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Carina Garland, the new member for Chisholm.

Labor seizes Chisholm as marginal Melbourne seat swings against government

Carina Garland set to take the eastern-suburbs seat, holding a commanding lead over sitting Liberal MP Gladys Liu.

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Early childhood educators volunteer on a phone bank set up by the United Workers Union to support Labor candidate Carina Garland in the seat of Chisholm.

Union-run phone banks and robo-calls in Mandarin: Behind the scenes in Chisholm

This is what they call the “ground game” in one of Australia’s most marginal seats.

  • Clay Lucas
Hardhat bromance: Daniel Andrews (left) and Anthony Albanese at a level-crossing removal project in Surrey Hills on Tuesday morning.

Andrews outshines Albo in ultra-marginal Chisholm

Anthony Albanese has silenced claims he is avoiding Daniel Andrews on the hustings. The downside? Andrews showed him what political cut-through looks like.

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Anthony Albanese and Daniel Andrews have not yet appeared together on the campaign trail.

Albanese poised to pledge billions to Andrews’ signature rail project

A federal Labor government would contribute at least $2.2b to Victoria’s Suburban Rail Loop, a project the Morrison government has argued doesn’t stack up.

  • Paul Sakkal
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Labor is on the front foot in using WeChat in the federal election campaign.

边缘选区Chisholm:谁正赢下微信战场？提示:或许让您出乎意料

Chisholm联邦议员廖婵娥承诺停用微信账号，此前莫里森总理公众账号被转手。如今工党在这一中国社交媒体巨头上更为活跃。

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Labor’s candidate for Chisholm, Carina Garland, and the incumbent, Gladys Liu.

And the WeChat winner in marginal Chisholm is ... not who you’d expect

Member for Chisholm, Gladys Liu, pledged to stop using her WeChat account after Scott Morrison’s profile was taken over. Labor is now much more active on the Chinese-owned social media giant.

  • Paul Sakkal
Gladys Liu with Treasurer Josh Frydenberg and Prime Minister Scott Morrison.

Morrison, Frydenberg say Labor ad targeting Gladys Liu is racist

“What do we know about Liberal Gladys Liu?” a male voice says in the ad, with an ominous-sounding background track. 

  • Paul Sakkal
Chisholm MP Gladys Liu campaigning in Box Hill last week.

Labor to target Gladys Liu on national security credentials

Labor will pay for ads on Facebook, Google ads, YouTube and Instagram to remind as many residents of Box Hill, Chadstone, Burwood and surrounds about Liu’s record.

  • Paul Sakkal

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