Your noon Briefing: Labor’s housing plan will ‘hurt values’

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Hello readers. ScoMo spruiks his first home-buyers’ deposit scheme while claiming Labor’s plan will force down property prices.

A composite image created on Monday, May 13, 2019, of; Australian Opposition Leader Bill Shorten walks past the campaign bus after handing out election material for local Labor candidate for Reid Sam Crosby at Rhodes train station in Sydney, Monday, May 13, 2019. A Federal election will be held in Australian on Saturday May 18, 2019. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING *** Prime Minister Scott Morrison at a housing construction site at Orchard Hills in Sydney, Monday, May 13, 2019. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

‘Hurt values’

Scott Morrison spruiks the Coalition’s deposit scheme, while warning Labor’s plans to overhaul tax breaks will “force down” property prices. Keep up with the latest from the campaign trail in our live blog, PoliticsNow.

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Tom Miles‏ @TomMile43729676 12h12 hours agoMore10 Uniformed Police and 4 security guards evict a father who wanted to take his disabled daughter to the closest toilet. @ALeague @9NewsSyd @SydneyFC #SYDvMVC #BigBlue #ALeagueThe Sydney FC, Melbourne Victory A-League semi-final was far from controversial, but the actions of security and NSW Police have come under fire on social media as one fan was escorted out of the ground.

‘Pushed into stands’

A father who claimed he was taking his disabled daughter to a bathroom at an A-League game was attempting to access a restricted area, police say.

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NEWS2019ELECTION 23/4/2019. DAY 13Opposition Leader Bill Shorten talking to workers at GPC at Gladstone Port in QLD. Picture Kym Smith

‘Not suspended’

Gladstone Ports denies it suspended a contractor who tripped up Bill Shorten.

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

Seven no-show

Barnaby Joyce won’t sit on Seven’s election night panel because he’s got something crucial to do, writes Nick Tabakoff in Media Diary.

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The USS Abraham Lincoln sails south in the Suez canal near Ismailia, Thursday, May 9, 2019. The White House said Wednesday it dispatched the aircraft carrier and B-52 bombers to the Persian Gulf over what it described as a new threat from Iran. (Suez Canal Authority via AP)

The long read: US steams into deep waters

Fears of conflict with Iran are rising as Washington sends a carrier to the Gulf.