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Hello readers. ScoMo bets on property to win votes, and worker who tripped up Bill Shorten at Gladstone Ports has been suspended.

Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison (2nd L) hugs his daughters Abbey (L) and Lily (2nd R) with wife Jenny Morrison (R) after the Liberal Party's campaign launch in Melbourne on May 12, 2019. - Australia goes to the polls in a national election on May 18. (Photo by William WEST / AFP)

Home run

Scott Morrison has hitched his re-election to an economic plan to drive aspiration and turbocharge home ownership. Paul Kelly suggests the Liberal launch was the PM’s no-frills pitch to “simple, decent, honest Australians”, while Caroline Overington writes that the PM put a human face to the campaign by introducing himself as a husband, son and father. Keep up with the latest from the campaign trail in our live blog, PoliticsNow.

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NEWS2019ELECTION 23/4/2019. DAY 13Opposition Leader Bill Shorten talking to workers at GPC with Labor candidate for Flynn, Zac Beers at Gladstone Port in QLD. Picture Kym Smith

Worker suspended

The worker who tripped up Bill Shorten on tax for high-income earners has been suspended.

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Attack will backfire

Australia may find ­itself on the path to the largest peacetime tax increases since Federation, writes Henry Ergas.

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8/2/17:Associate editor at The Australian newspaper,Chris Kenny

How to quit Twitter

Chris Kenny has abandoned the Twittersphere for good, in a development likely to start a wider conversation, writes Nick Tabakoff in Media Diary.

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Johannes Leak’s view

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