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Hello readers. The LNP could snare a key marginal seat in the character-infested quagmire of Queensland, and Alex Turnbull, voice of GetUp.

10/05/2019 Member for Kennedy Bob Katter on the main street of Charters Towers southwest of Townsville. Cameron Laird/The Australian

Marginal seat surprise

A new seat poll shows the LNP are on track to win an ultra-marginal seat in Queensland, but Labor will likely hold another. Resident psephologist Sid Maher suggests Labor is somewhat spooked by the Queensland quagmire, where Palmer, Hanson, Katter and a belt of marginal seats could keep the nation waiting on crucial results. Keep up with the latest from the campaign trail in our live blog, PoliticsNow.

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Centrelink stock in Elizabeth, Thursday, September 21, 2017. (AAP Image/Tracey Nearmy) NO ARCHIVING

Jobless rate rises

Australia’s unemployment rate rose in April, despite a strong gain in employment, bringing closer the first interest rate cut in three years.

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Twitter photo of Alex Turnbull, son of Australia's former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.

Voice of GetUp

Alex Turnbull has teamed up with GetUp as the voice of robocall messages urging voters in key Victorian seats not to vote Liberal.

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Labor fights for coal in Queensland

Labor campaigns on “sending a coal miner to Canberra” as it spruiks policies to reduce emissions.

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FILE - In this Jan. 13, 2011 file photo, Conrad Black arrives at the federal building in Chicago. President Donald Trump has granted a full pardon to Black, a former newspaper publisher who has written a flattering political biography of Trump. Black's media empire once included the Chicago Sun-Times and The Daily Telegraph of London. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

Black pardoned

Donald Trump pardons former Fairfax owner Conrad Black, who was jailed for fraud.

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09/05/2019. (L-R) Daniela Pizzo, Augustina Aldabalde, Rafael Paris-Otto and Camila Jensen share hummus dishes at Simply Hummus Bar in Darlinghurst, Sydney's first dedicated hummus restaurant. Ahead of International hummus day. Britta Campion / The Australian

The food read: Hummus so hot right now

Hummus may be the most popular dip in Australian fridges, but a growing restaurant trend is dedicated to elevating the status of the snack into a meal in its own right. Elias Visontay dips into the opening of Sydney’s first bar dedicated to the Middle Eastern chickpea staple.