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Your 2-minute digest of the day’s top stories.

Hello readers. Josh Frydenberg says there are two big holes in Labor’s big budget promise. Meanwhile, who won the week on the campaign trail?

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg during the treasurers debate with Opposition treasurer Chris Bowen at the National Press Club in Canberra, Monday, May 6, 2019. (AAP Image/Rohan Thomson) NO ARCHIVING

Bigger surpluses?

Josh Frydenberg says there are major holes in Labor’s budget costings, as Labor vows to deliver more “realistic” and larger budget surpluses and committed to a tax ceiling. Keep up with the latest in our live blog, PoliticsNow.

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Bill Shorten and Scott Morrison had another busy week on the hustings, but who did our experts view as the winner? Picture: AAP

Verdict: Who won the week?

There were tears, an attempted egging, and the final leaders’ debate. Who came out on top? Chris Kenny and Troy Bramston will pass their verdict on the week that was.

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Dylan Walker at Manly Court. Picture by Chris Pavlich

Walker found not guilty

NRL star Dylan Walker has been found not guilty of assaulting his fiancee by pulling her ponytail and causing her to fall to the ground while cradling a baby, free to resume his NRL career.

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A screen-grab taken from the ABC's 7:30 program on Monday, December 17, 2018, of actor Yael Stone as she is interview during a segment which went to air on Monday, December 17,2018. (AAP Image/Supplied by ABC) NO ARCHIVING, EDITORIAL USE ONLY NO ARCHIVING AAP IMAGE BEYOND 48 HOUR NEWS USAGE

Rush ‘Witness X’ revealed

The mystery witness who was last year barred from giving evidence in the Geoffrey Rush defamation trial can now be identified as Orange is the New Black star Yael Stone.

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18/03/2019: Mark Latham, former Labor leader, is running for the upper house for One Nation in the NSW election, and looks likely to win. He's campaigning in traditional Labor heartland, Blacktown, on Monday. Hollie Adams/The Australian

‘Like rain on parched earth’

Readers reacted in floods to Mark Latham’s big maiden speech to NSW parliament.

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