Your morning Briefing: Coalition’s $1bn drive to get regions moving

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Hello readers. PM to spend $1bn to get regions moving as Bill Shorten unveils his electric dreams and plans to make big polluters pay.

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg at the Treasury building in Canberra. Picture Kym Smith

$1bn to get regions moving

Scott Morrison will inject an addition­al $1bn into boosting freight networks across Australia in an election pitch to the regions­. Dennis Shanahan suggests the PM is taking the high economic ground. Keep up with all the latest in our live Budget week blog.

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Federal Opposition Leader Bill Shorten (centre) during a tour of the "Repurpose It" recycling facility in Epping, Melbourne, Sunday, March 31, 2019. Shorten has announced labor's commitment to tackling plastic use and boosting recycling. (AAP Image/James Ross) NO ARCHIVING

Bill’s electric dreams

Bill Shorten will impose an ­aggressive pollution cap on ­industry and business if elected, in a bid to meet climate change targets and will push for half of all new cars sold in Australia to be electric within a decade.

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Images of terrorist Khaled Sharrouf's children who, with their mother, are stranded in Syria following the death of the ISIS recruit. (L-R) Hoda, Abdullah, Humzeh, Zaqawi and Zaynab.

Sharrouf kids

Three children of our most notorious homegrown terrorist, Khaled Sharrouf, are believed to be in a Syrian refugee camp.

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Barnaby Joyce on set at Channel seven during their election coverage, Sydney, 23rd March 2019. Picture by Damian Shaw

Barnaby’s cranky pants

Around Seven’s Martin Place studios in Sydney, they’re now calling it ‘green room-gate’. Nick Tabakoff’s Media Diary has the low down on Barnaby Joyce’s election night meltdown.

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(FILES) In this file photo taken on November 1, 2014 former Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor and current Nevada Assemblywoman Lucy Flores (D-Las Vegas) (L) introduces former US Vice President Joe Biden at a get-out-the-vote rally at a union hall in Las Vegas, Nevada. - Former vice president Joe Biden insisted on March 31, 2019 he had never acted inappropriately towards women as a growing row about a kiss on the campaign trail cast a shadow over his expected run for the White House.The 76-year-old Biden is the clear favorite to win the Democrat nomination to take on Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election even though he has yet to declare his candidacy. (Photo by Ethan Miller / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP)

Did he inhale?

A Democrat politician has accused former vice-president and presidential hopeful Joe Biden of inappropriate conduct by kissing her head.

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FILE - In this March 28, 2019 file photo, President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Grand Rapids, Mich. After losing in Congress, Trump is counting on the courts to kill off "Obamacare." But some cases are going against him, and time is not on his side as he tries to score a big win for his re-election campaign. Two federal judges in Washington, D.C., this past week blocked Trump's Medicaid work requirements and small business health plans. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

A blow to media credibility

The New York Times attracted millions of digital subscribers with its anti-Trump campaigning but destroyed its own credibility, writes Chris Mitchell.

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Johannes Leak’s view

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