Election 2022 live: Anthony Albanese tests positive for Covid
Labor leader Anthony Albanese has tested positive for Covid-19. This is what will happen next as his campaign is thrown into chaos.
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Labor leader Anthony Albanese has tested positive for Covid-19.
In a statement, Mr Albanese said he had a routine PCR test on Thursday afternoon ahead of interstate travel to Western Australia.
“I have returned a positive result for COVID this evening,” he said.
“I have been testing regularly as part of my election campaign duties.
“I will be isolating at home in Sydney for the next seven days and will continue to follow health guidelines and advice.”
Mr Albanese said while confined to his home he would “continue my responsibilities as alternative Prime Minister and will be fighting for a better future for all Australians”.
“I am grateful to know that I will have access to the world’s best health care if I need it, because of Medicare,” he said.
“I am feeling fine so far - and thank everyone for their well wishes.”
Mr Albanese has spent most of the week in Brisbane, where he mingled with locals and toured workplaces across a range of industries.
He arrived in Brisbane on Sunday night after a surprise visit to the Bluesfest in Byron Bay where he shared the stage with Jimmy Barnes, prompting boos from the crowd.
The Labor leader met victims from Queensland’s recent floods on Monday.
On Tuesday, he visited veterans at a local bowls club where he pledged funding for a disaster relief charity before being shown around Tritium, an electrical equipment supplier in Brisbane’s east.
Mr Albanese began Wednesday with an early morning visit to freight company Toll’s national office.
He spent the rest of the day preparing for the first leader’s debate at The Gabba that night, which was attended by 100 undecided voters.
On Thursday, his bus left Queensland and headed south to New South Wales.
He first met workers at a large ethanol distillery in Bomaderry before visiting a retirement village in Nowra for a photo opportunity.
The campaign then headed to Sydney, where Mr Albanese shared a coffee and a selfie with Labor candidate for Bennelong, Jerome Laxale, and some locals in Ryde.
His next stop was an aged care facility, Symons House, in the NSW seat of Gilmore.
Mr Albanese spoke to residents, including Robyn Stokes who expressed fears about Covid-19.
She told him she recently had booked in for a second booster shot. Mr Albanese was wearing a mask throughout the visit.
Mr Albanese on Thursday night took to social media to thank Australians for their well wishes while both state and federal politicians wished him well on Facebook.
Western Australia Premier Mark McGowan, who was set to welcome Mr Albanese in his home state on Friday, said: “Hope it’s a quick recovery mate. We’ll see you in WA again soon.”
NSW opposition leader Chris Minns: “Get well soon Anthony Albanese. We’ll all be fighting extra hard over the next week to elect an Albanese Labor Government!”
Prime Minister Scott Morrison passed on his best wishes to Mr Albanese – but gave no indication that he intended to halt his campaign.
“I wish Anthony Albanese all the best for his recovery after testing positive to COVID,” he said.
“Everyone’s experience with COVID is different and as Labor’s campaign continues, I hope he does not experience any serious symptoms.”
Mr Morrison and Mr Albanese met for the first leaders’ debate in Brisbane on Wednesday night but the Prime Minister is not considered a close contact under the current guidelines.
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In Queensland, where the debate was held, a close contact is someone a case has spent more than 4 hours with in close proximity.
People are also not considered a contact if they have had Covid in the last four months.
Mr Morrison recently tested positive for Covid-19 and experienced “flu-like symptoms”.
He continued his duties while completing seven days isolation.
Several Labor frontbench MPs recently have contracted Covid, severely hampering the opposition’s campaigning ability.
Kristina Keneally, Jason Clare, Chris Bowen and Mark Butler are among the senior Labor MPs who have tested positive and recovered in recent weeks.
With Mr Albanese’s seven days of isolation starting Thursday, he will still be able to attend his planned campaign launch in Western Australia next weekend.
Media on Mr Albanese’s campaign bus had been preparing to travel to Western Australia on Friday but plans have now been put on hold.
PM ACCUSED OF ‘BLINDSIDING’ AUSTRALIA
Australia’s two-decade long focus on the “war on terror” and Afghanistan meant relationships within the Pacific were left by the wayside, ultimately leaving us “blindsided” by China’s security pact with the Solomon Islands, according to defence strategists.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese on Thursday again muscled up on who was stronger on China and foreign policy.
But Australian Strategic Policy Institute expert John Coyne said the most critical issue was laying out what the next government does to repair the relationship with the Pacific, warning Chinese aircraft and equipment could be based out of Honiara by the end of the year.
Mr Albanese, on the hustings in the New South Wales marginal seat of Gilmore, said Labor would “turn up”, take the issue seriously and “engage with our partners” and the region.
Mr Morrison, in Brisbane, asserted the “threat” of China muscling into the Pacific had been around for “some time”, highlighting this was the reason his first overseas visit as Prime Minister was to the Solomon Islands.
But the Prime Minister also chose not to clarify if the government knew about a landmark security pact before it was leaked online, citing national security sensitivities.
Both Foreign Minister Marise Payne and Pacific Minister Zed Seselja have said they found out when the draft document was made public.
Defence strategists have warned Chinese ships would soon move to establish a foothold in the Pacific nation.
“This is not the first time in the last decade when Australia has been caught blindsided by a security related development in two decades,” Mr Coyne, ASPI’s northern Australia strategic head, said.
Mr Coyne said Australia’s focus had been on Afghanistan and the war of terror, and authorities had assumed the relationship with Pacific nations would be “okay” — but this was “lacking in foresight culturally”.
He said the next government would also need to have a “good hard look” at Australia’s military capabilities in North Queensland — in the garrison cities of Cairns and Townsville — to ensure the region was equipped to show the nation was serious about Defence and national security.
“We have to be building things like (Defence) infrastructure now, not only what we need to put into North Queensland, but if there are the right airfields, the right logistics networks … if we need to invest or fast track investment to upgrade Cairns and Townsville ports,” he said.
“We are going to need to make sure that we are there and ready to assist them (Pacific nations), sending a message that Australia is prepared to put its money into Defence and national security.
“We need to do everything in our power to build the relationship between Canberra and the Solomon Islands.”
PM DOUBLES DOWN ON ALBO ‘SIDING WITH CHINA’
Mr Morrison has doubled down on his claim Anthony Albanese is “on China’s side”.
Prior to a doorstop in the marginal seat of Longman, Mr Morrison lashed the Labor leader for his “absurd” commentary on China.
“I don’t know why they keep taking China’s side,” he told Sydney radio 2GB.
It’s the second time Mr Morrison has publicly accused Anthony Albanese of aligning himself with Beijing over Canberra, in what the Labor leader has described as an “outrageous slur”.
Mr Morrison is under fire from Labor for not dispatching Foreign Minister Marise Payne to Honiara when the draft security agreement was leaked in March.
Labor has used the incident to hit out at the government’s handling of diplomatic affairs.
But the Prime Minister defended his track record with the Solomon Islands.
“It’s laughable,” he said.
“For Labor to suggest that somehow we haven’t been doing the heavy lifting in that relationship, and effectively saying, ‘well the reason why China is influencing in the region is Australia’s fault’, is absurd.
“They blamed us for the relationship with China, not the fact that China is putting unlawful tariffs on our products.”
Speaking later, Mr Morrison said he was unable to clear up confusion over if the government knew about a landmark security pact before it was leaked online, citing national security sensitivities.
Both Foreign Minister Marise Payne and Pacific Minister Zed Seselja have said they found out when the draft document was made public.
But asked on the campaign trail, Mr Morrison said he had known about the risk of a deal between Solomon Island and China “for some time”.
“This is why the first place I went to after the last election was the Solomon Islands,” he told reporters at defence industry manufacturer Ferra Engineering in the Queensland seat of Bonner.
“The threat of this has been around for a long time and I can't go into all the details as to how Australia is able to know the specific information, as they are security matters.”
Mr Albanese said dealing with Beijing will be “problematic” regardless of which party wins government next month.
But he has vowed to follow a similar approach to that used in the United States of America.
“My philosophy is consistent with, I think the Biden administration has got it right,” Mr Albanese said.
“He speaks of competition without catastrophe. The issue with Beijing will be problematic regardless of who is in government because the stance of Beijing has changed.
“I have said that repeatedly.”
Mr Albanese said it was crucial that Australia recognised what is happening in the region.
“We have to recognise that China is more forward leaning, that they’re seeking to increase their influence in the region and we need to respond to that,” he said.
“We have to call out the behaviour of China in putting sanctions against Australian businesses because that is sanctions against Australian jobs. “It is entirely inappropriate.”
Mr Albanese said comments made by Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce — where he described the Solomon Islands as a “little Cuba — were “quite extraordinary”.
“You would think he had nothing to do with this. He is the Deputy Prime Minister of the country,” Mr Albanese said.
“He said that this is like Cuba. Likening it to the Cuban missile crisis that occurred on the doorstep of the United States.
“We know that the Solomons are a strategic destination.
“We know during World War Two, some of the fiercest and most important battles for control of the Pacific occurred there.
“We know that the United States very much relies on Australia and sees Australia as playing that key role of partners in the Indo Pacific, and that Australia and Scott Morrison has just gone missing.”
Mr Albanese accused the Coalition of going “missing” during key developments.
Using the Solomon Island’s deal as ammunition, the Labor leader said Australia’s national security interests were jeopardised by the government.
“This government sat back and went missing while the port of Darwin was sold to a company with direct links to the Chinese Communist Party,” he said.
“(That was) clearly not in Australia’s interests for that to happen.”
The Port of Darwin was leased, not sold, to Chinese company Landbridge by the Northern Territory government in 2015.
“In terms of national security, and taking these issues seriously, we will engage with our partners, we will engage with the region (and) we will take these issues seriously,” Mr Albanese added.
PM APOLOGISES FOR ‘BLESSED’ COMMENT HURT
Scott Morrison says he meant "no offence", and has been in contact with Australian of the Year Dylan Alcott, to apologise for comments he made last night that offended the Australian disability community.
At the leaders debate on Wednesday night, Mr Morrison fielded a question from a young mother who relies on the NDIS for her four-year-old autistic son.
In giving his response, Mr Morrison said he and his wife Jenny had been "blessed" not to have to deal with the NDIS.
It garnered widespread criticism, including from Mr Alcott who said: "Feeling sorry for us and our families doesn’t help. Treating us equally, and giving us the choice and control over our own lives does."
Mr Morrison sought to clear up his statement on Thursday morning, and said he did not mean to offend anyone.
"I have apologised directly to Dylan," he said.
"I think people would appreciate that I would have had no such intention of suggesting that anything other than every child is a blessing is true.
"Every child is precious, and a blessing to every parent.
"I don't think anyone would seriously think that I had intended anything different to that.
"I deeply apologise for any offence it caused. Mr Morrison said the mother who had posed the question in the first place had not taken offence to his statement, and took aim at the Labor party for politicising what he had said.
Mr Morrison went on to touch on the 14 year of waiting he and his wife had done before they were "blessed" with their two children.
Earlier, the PM returned fire over criticism for saying he was “blessed” to have children without disability.
Speaking with 2GB, the Prime Minister put Labor frontbencher Bill Shorten on blast for “twisting” his words for political point scoring.
“I was just simply trying to say look, I haven't walked in your shoes … I'm not going to pretend to say that I understand it as well as you do,” he said.
“The fact that Bill Shorten and others seek to leap on it and twist the words and turn it into something political, I thought showed really bad faith. “That says more about him.”
He suggested his critics were just listening to Mr Shorten and implored them to listen to his full remarks.
“They probably haven't heard exactly what I said,” Mr Morrison added.
“So I can understand (the criticism) if they (were) just listening to Bill Shorten … but I thought that was just pretty poor form.”
Liberal Senator Hollie Hughes, also a mum of a son with autism, slammed Mr Morrison’s opponents for “politicising” the issue and missing the point.
“I cannot believe that this is what they want to focus on,” she told Sydney’s 2GB radio.
“You know, (the Prime Minister and Jenny) were blessed. They tried for 14 years to have children. And they're blessed with two beautiful daughters.
“But if that's what you want to pick up from the Prime Minister, if you want to push this point that somehow he’s disregarding the experience … go away, stop politicising our experience if you’ve never been through it.”
She added while she was “blessed” herself to have three children, there were times when her child was younger that she “did not feel particularly blessed”.
“I can tell you I felt like I was parenting at an absolute master’s level … It was hard in those early days,” Senator Hughes said.
Respected disability advocate Craig Wallace agreed, taking to Twitter to say the gaffe was “careless” but not malicious.
“But it does speak to disability as a cosmic tragedy visited from the sky and it doesn’t have to be,” he wrote. “If we are ‘cursed’ it’s because society didn’t choose to end barriers, discrimination and neglect.”
DYLAN ALCOTT REACTS TO PM’S COMMENTS
Australian of the Year Dylan Alcott said he feels “very blessed” to be disabled and has called for people to treat those with a disability equally.
The dual sport athlete and the youngest ever wheelchair basketball gold medallist in history. has represented Australia in wheelchair basketball and wheelchair tennis since the age of 13.
He’s also the founder of the Dylan Alcott Foundation, which helps young people struggling with their disabilities. As a motivational speaker, he continually tries to change the way people with disabilities are perceived in the wider community.
“Woke up this morning feeling very blessed to be disabled – I reckon my parents are pretty happy about it too,’’ Alcott tweeted in response to comments made by Mr Morrison.
“Feeling sorry for us and our families doesn’t help. Treating us equally, and giving us the choice and control over our own lives does.”
Former Australian of the Year Grace Tame also fired back at Mr Morrison.
Tame – who is autistic herself – was quick to slam the Prime Minister for his comments.
“Autism blesses those of us who have it with the ability to spot fakes from a mile off,” she said in a tweet, accompanied by the now infamous picture of her side-eyeing Mr Morrison.
MP’S OFFICE RAMMED BY CAR
The Brisbane office of federal Labor MP for Griffith, Terri Butler, has been rammed by a car in a dramatic incident.
The car then fled the scene on Old Cleveland Road, Greenslopes.
Ms Butler tweeted shortly after that no one had been injured and that she was ok, thanking people for their concern.
“The police are on the scene,” she said. “We don’t know the condition or whereabouts of the driver.”
ALBO MISSING DOG BUT WINNING VOTES
Mr Albanese’s fly-by visit to an aged care home in the marginal NSW seat of Gilmore has helped secure at least one vote for Labor, with the Opposition leader managing to charm an undecided voter.
Mr Albanese, in a visit to Symons House in Nowra, also revealed the campaign trail meant he was missing a significant part of home life — his dog Toto.
Robyn Stokes, 80, revealed she was an undecided voter but would be putting her support behind Labor’s Fiona Phillips in Gilmore, a decision that came after her chat with Mr Albanese.
“I just think that they'll do a better job because of the team behind them,” she said. “I just wanted to say how honest he was with us, and he was very honest.”
The pair chatted about Ms Stokes’ concerns Covid-19 restrictions, including on international travellers coming in, had been loosened too soon.
Mr Albanese said it was important to listen to the “health experts” and not the politicians on those issues, which was convenient for Ms Stokes whose daughter happens to be a doctor.
A few residents were surprised at the hullabaloo of the visit, with the presence of politicians not budging 89-year-old Pat Morrison on her disdain for politics.
Bill Kellett, 89, grabbed Mr Albanese’s attention thanks to his companion — Bella the assistance dog, which prompted the Opposition Leader to lament how his missed his dog Toto back home.
SO WHO REALLY WON THE LEADERS’ DEBATE?
An audience of undecided voters gave Mr Albanese a narrow victory in the first leaders debate overnight but many others are saying Mr Morrison was the clear winner with his command of the details.
More than 70 per cent of readers on this site say the Prime Minister won the debate, while other experts, and plenty of people on social media, said Mr Albanese was the winner.
Finance Minister Simon Birmingham said he believed Mr Morrison had clearly won.
“Expectations on Anthony Albanese were so low, all he had to do was be able to tie his shoe laces and turn up and people think it's a credible performance,’’ Mr Birmingham told the Today Show on Thursday.
Labor’s Jason Clare said Mr Albanese was the one who answered the real questions facing Australians, including from parents with children worried about disability funding, those concerned about housing affordability and aged care, as well as corruption.
“It shows people do care about corruption. They want to get rid of it in Canberra. Mr Clare said Mr Albanese had plans to ‘fix all of those things’ while Mr Morrison was ‘out of touch’ with ordinary Australians.
What it shows we've got plans to fix the problems that people care about. That Scott Morrison doesn't. This mob after they've been in power for a decade now, voting for them again is like staying in a taxi that's run out of petrol. They've run out of ideas.
“The things that people care about whether it's buying a house, putting their kids into childcare and being affordable. Making sure you put your parents in aged care they're looked after and fed properly.”
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Mr Birmingham said Mr Morrison responded to questions the audience raised ‘comprehensively’, outlining the billions the Coalition had invested in getting young people in a home, spending more than $19 billion to fix aged care, and growing the NDIS scheme. He said it came down to competence and Mr Morrison was the one with detailed policies.
“He acknowledged that things are tough in some places and that of course, these things aren't easy challenges. But because they're not easy whether you're dealing with housing policy or managing the economy or national security you need to actually have the detailed skills.”
In contrast, he said Mr Albanese has tripped on key issues like border protection and was ‘lacking’ as a leader.
SENIOR MINISTER REFUSES TO ENDORSE DEVES
Meanwhile, Mr Birmingham failed to endorse embattled Liberal candidate Katherine Deves.
Speaking with ABC’s RN, Mr Birmingham was given four opportunities to say whether he was comfortable with Ms Deves remaining as the candidate for Warringah.
He declined to answer. "I haven't looked closely at what's being reported," he said instead.
Host Patricia Karvelas she was “going to take that … as you’ve not endorsed her,” to which Senator Birmingham did not interject.
Ms Deves is under fire for a range of now-deleted social media posts in which she likened her anti-trans lobbying to standing up to the Nazis.
In the latest string of tweets, uncovered by news.com.au, Ms Deves said she believe’s there was a link between cross-dressing men and trans women being “sexual predators, even serial killers”.
“Transvestism is very common among sexual predators, even serial killers,” she wrote in the now deleted tweet. Nominations close for political candidates on Thursday, meaning today is the last day the Liberal Party can remove her name from the ballot paper.
DUTTON’S CHINA WARNING
Mr Albanese said Labor “would turn up” and immediately sort out the Solomon Islands crisis if elected to government.
The Labor leader’s comments come after Peter Dutton warned Chinese ships would soon move to establish a foothold in the Pacific nation.
Mr Albanese continued his assault on the Coalition which he says is a “policy failure”.
Asked how he would attempt to fix the situation, Mr Albanese said: “We will engage with our partners, we will engage with the region, we will take these issues seriously.”
Mr Albanese said the Commonwealth had failed to take action promptly.
“They had enough notice to engage and do something about this,” he added. “China is more aggressive. (They are) more forward.
“The difference is how do you respond to it? Do you respond to it by playing domestic politics or do you respond to it in a strategic way?”
Earlier, Mr Dutton accused Labor of seeking to damage Australia on China and implored frontbenchers to stop “shooting from the hip” until they had the facts.
“They haven’t had the intelligence briefings [that we’ve had],” the Defence Minister told Sunrise.
In the Sky News / Courier Mail People’s Forum, Mr Albanese branded the Coalition's Pacific Step Up program a “Pacific Stuff Up”, in response to a question over a new security pact between China and the Solomon Islands.
Labor’s foreign affairs spokeswoman Penny Wong on Wednesday accused the government of overseeing the “worst failure of Australian foreign policy in the Pacific” since the Second World War. But Mr Dutton said their criticism was “nonsense”.
“The Solomon Islands isn’t Tasmania. [It] is a sovereign nation and we need to deal with them respectfully,” he told Sunrise. “[Critics] are shooting from the hip because they haven’t had the intelligence briefings.
“We have had those briefings and we have gone through what was known and what was available to us in what has been a delicate period and a very deliberate decision not to send Marise Payne.”
AUSTRALIA WARNED TO BRACE FOR CHINESE SHIPS
Australia has been warned to brace for Chinese ships and aircraft to arrive in the Solomon Islands within weeks after the two nations signed a landmark security agreement.
Experts have expressed concern China would “move as fast as it can” to establish a foothold in the Pacific nation, in order to capitalise on the caretaker period.
The Lowy Institute’s Richard McGregor said Beijing would “move as fast as it can while they have a friendly leader in place in the Solomons to establish a physical foothold”. “They would want to have boots on the ground and establish a concrete presence there – living quarters, possibly a small dock on the pretext of refuelling a supply ship,” the senior fellow for East Asia told The Australian.
He warned that, in the long-term, “China wants what the US has, which is a permanent military presence in the Pacific”.
OUTRAGEOUS SLUR’: PM AND ALBO’S DEBATE
Mr Albanese was accused by Mr Morrison of being on the side of China and skewered for his failure to support asylum boat turnbacks as deputy prime minister, in a feisty first leaders’ debate of the election campaign overnight.
In a flashpoint over national security in the Sky News-Courier Mail people’s forum before an audience of 100 undecided voters, Mr Albanese fired back at Mr Morrison’s China claim, slamming it as “an outrageous slur”.
The final result was 40 per cent in favour of Mr Albanese, 35 per cent for Mr Morrison and 25 per cent undecided.
The nation’s economy, health system and integrity dominated the event where Mr Morrison said he was “blessed” to have two children without disabilities while Mr Albanese stumbled over his position on turning back boats.
But neither leader committed to ditching their scare campaigns during the remaining month of the campaign.
Mr Morrison dismissed criticism that his government had bungled its security relationship, stating it highlighted China’s ramped up aggression levels over recent years.
“When the Labor Party said this is a policy fail – no, this is because China is seeking to interfere,” he said.
“What this shows is that China has changed … what I don’t understand is, why would you take China’s side?
“Somehow it’s Australia’s fault.”
Branding the Prime Minister’s characterisation “an outrageous slur”, Mr Albanese said his party wasn’t disputing that China had changed, but said the Coalition had failed to respond accordingly by sending a “junior burger” to carry out diplomatic talks.
“It (China) is more aggressive, it’s more active in the region and we need to understand that and respond to it,” he said.
“This isn’t a Pacific step up. It’s a Pacific stuff up.”
In a comment slammed by Labor disabilities spokesman Bill Shorten, Mr Morrison said he was blessed to have children without disabilities when responding to a question from a mother who asked about the NDIS.
“For parents with children that are disabled, I can only try and understand your aspirations for those children,” he said.
“The thing I love about the NDIS is it’s not welfare.
“It’s designed to help people with disabilities live their best possible life.”
The leaders clashed when the Prime Minister asked the Opposition leader why he didn’t support turnbacks when he was deputy prime minister.
Mr Albanese said he was on the national security committee which established offshore processing.
“Why is it Scott that you’re always looking for a division,” he responded.
“The truth is we support turn backs.”
As Mr Albanese insisted Labor “does the big reforms”, Mr Morrison quipped that it was the Liberals and Nationals who had to figure out how to pay for them.
The Opposition leader pledged to install a federal integrity commission with “teeth” while the Prime Minister insisted the Commonwealth’s proposal would deal with “criminal matters” and not be a kangaroo court.
‘CLENCHED JAW’: WHAT YOU MISSED IN CLASH
Anthony Albanese was “more relaxed and less scripted” giving him the edge over Prime Minister Scott Morrison, one body language and speech expert said, while a second said Mr Morrison had the slight edge “but only just.”
“Mr Albanese projected confidence and certainty through his body language and cadence,” Michael Kelly said.
“This was a significant improvement compared to recent performances. Notably, he did not stumble in his delivery.”
While Mr Morrison projected “confidence and certainly through this body language”, Mr Kelly said Mr Morrison appeared rushed and scripted in his responses. More on this here
PENNY WONG DODGES KEY CHINA QUESTION
Shadow Foreign Minister Penny Wong has dodged questions about how Labor would handle Australia’s relationship with China.
Instead, she criticised the Morrison government over a security pact between China and the Solomon Islands.
When asked how a Labor government would attempt to “reset the relationship” with China on ABC’s 730 on Wednesday, Senator Wong did not offer a clear strategy.
She said one of the key things to do was secure the region against “China‘s increased aggression and assertiveness”. Senator Wong said her party would have “more to say” on specific strategies at a later date.
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