Your noon Briefing: ScoMo’s last ditch blitz of Queensland

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Hello readers. Scott Morrison and Bill Shorten make their final election pitches as the nation gets ready to vote.

Bill Shorten's last photograph with Bob Hawke. Picture: Supplied.

Last ditch blitz

The Prime Minister has made a last-ditch sweep through Queensland as he tries to pick up Labor seats and defend vulnerable seats, while Bill Shorten has cast himself as Bob Hawke’s successor. Less than 24 hours before the polls open, the nation’s media have published their election editorials. Keep up with the latest in our live blog, PoliticsNow.

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Boot out the brat and keep the Christan.

Boot the brat, keep the Christian

One of them is a total and utter embarrassment to Australian sport. The other is not, suggests Will Swanton. Alan Jones, meantime, calls for the Rugby Australia board to fall on its sword.

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British Prime Minister Theresa May leaves the Elysee presidential Palace in Paris on May 15, 2019 after attending a launching ceremony for the 'Christchurch call', an initiative pushed by New Zealand's Prime Minister after a self-described white supremacist gunned down 51 people in a massacre at two mosques in March. - French President and New Zealand's premier host other world leaders and leading tech chiefs to launch an ambitious new initiative aimed at curbing extremism online. The political meeting runs in parallel to an initiative launched by French President called Tech for Good which will bring together 80 tech chiefs in Paris to find a way for new technologies to work for the common good. (Photo by CHARLES PLATIAU / POOL / AFP)

May go

Theresa May agrees to go by July but urges delay to leaders election to dent Boris Johnson’s hopes.