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LNP candidate questioned over his Trump social media posts

Sarah Basford Canales

Sarah Basford Canales

At the press conference earlier with Peter Dutton, the LNP candidate in Leichhardt, Jeremy Nealwas asked whether he still supported Donald Trump after social media posts surfaced during the campaign.

Neal said “those views are [from] a very long time ago, and they were deleted a very long time ago”.

He added the US president’s decision to place tariffs on Australian exports had left a “sour taste” in his mouth.

Leichhardt candidate Jeremy Neal (left) with Peter Dutton at an LNP supporters breakfast in Cairns
Jeremy Neal (left) with Peter Dutton at an LNP supporters breakfast in Cairns. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP
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There’s only a week to go, and polls are showing that the gap between the two major parties is widening in favour of Anthony Albanese – but with such a high number of soft voters, can we count the Coalition out?

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Barrie Cassidy and Tony Barry discuss the big issues of the last week.

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Virginia Giuffre, a survivor of the disgraced US financier Jeffrey Epstein, has died by suicide at her farm in Western Australia, a statement from her family, attorney Sigrid McCawley and PR Dini von Mueffling says.

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The statement reads:

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It is with utterly broken hearts that we announce that Virginia passed away last night at her farm in Western Australia. She lost her life to suicide, after being a lifelong victim of sexual abuse and sex trafficking.

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Virginia was a fierce warrior in the fight against sexual abuse and sex trafficking. She was the light that lifted so many survivors. Despite all the adversity she faced in her life, she shone so bright. She will be missed beyond measure.

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The light of her life were her children Christian, Noah, and Emily. It was when she held her newborn daughter in her arms that Virginia realized she had to fight back against those who had abused her and so many others.

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There are no words that can express the grave loss we feel today with the passing of our sweet Virginia. She was heroic and will always be remembered for her incredible courage and loving spirit.

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In the end, the toll of abuse is so heavy that it became unbearable for Virginia to handle its weight. We know that she is with the angels.

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• In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is 13 11 14. In the UK and Ireland, Samaritans can be contacted on freephone 116 123, or email jo@samaritans.org or jo@samaritans.ie. In the US, you can call or text the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline on 988, chat on 988lifeline.org, or text HOME to 741741 to connect with a crisis counselor. Other international helplines can be found at befrienders.org

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At the press conference earlier with Peter Dutton, the LNP candidate in Leichhardt, Jeremy Neal, was asked whether he still supported Donald Trump after social media posts surfaced during the campaign.

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Neal said “those views are [from] a very long time ago, and they were deleted a very long time ago”.

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He added the US president’s decision to place tariffs on Australian exports had left a “sour taste” in his mouth.

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I condemned what happened yesterday with someone associated with neo-Nazis. I have had some of those figures confront me, as you may be aware, here in Melbourne.

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I think it’s good that across the board, the political spectrum condemned what occurred yesterday. It was condemned by Mr Dutton as well. That’s a good thing.

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Mainstream politics needs to speak out against far-right figures and the rise … We know from the Asio director general, Mr Burgess, he has publicly spoken about the threat … We know the consequences of this. We need to take this seriously. These threats. Because they are real.

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The prime minister says it is “fantastic” that media organisations “have come together to speak out against hate”.

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“I just think we as a society have got to come together.”

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He also points to algorithms that encourage “people to go to more extreme views”.

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Anthony Albanese says the suggestion by the opposition that people who have fled to Australia from Gaza should be rescreened for security is “aimed at promoting division”.

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The prime minister is asked whether there is “any merit” to the idea. His response:

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Everyone who is here has been through screening … Let’s be clear about the suggestions that have been made on a range of occasions, aimed at promoting division in Australian society and in Australian debate. They’ve been made by the Coalition. They simply just don’t stack up.

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The opposition leader is now taking questions from reporters in Cairns, where he is campaigning.

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Guardian Australia political reporter Sarah Basford Canales asks him whether he still pledges to not display the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags in official news conferences if he is elected, after hecklers interrupted the welcome to country at Anzac Day dawn services in Melbourne and Perth.

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Dutton affirms his policy as prime minister would be “to stand behind one flag … because I want our country to be united under one flag”:

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[Anzac Day] is not a place for political statements. It’s not a place for anything other than respect. And I think that’s very important to point out. And I just say to that near 100% of Australians who were at Anzac Day ceremonies yesterday conducted themselves in a way that we should all be very proud of, but we should condemn those bad actions.

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In relation to a welcome to country, if an organiser of a particular event decides that there’s a welcome to country, then people can respect that decision.

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In relation to the flag, the point I’ve made … as prime minister, my policy to stand behind one flag is because I want our country to be united under one flag, and I want our country to be as good as it can be, and we can’t be as good as we can be if we’re separating people into different groupings.

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Every Australian, whether you came here as a migrant from Greece or from Asia or any part of the world in the 1800s or you came here in 2018 or if you can trace your family tree back 60,000 years. We are all equal Australians, and we can respect the Indigenous flag and the Torres Strait Island flag, but we unite under one flag, as every other … comparable country does, and that’s how we can help close the gap.

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The opposition leader, Peter Dutton, is speaking on Weekend Today about his federal election campaign. Asked “have you run out of time to turn it around”, he says:

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There are literally millions of Australians who are still undecided. And I think the next week will allow them to decide whether they want to continue with three more years under Labor.

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Dutton goes on to list his campaign promises – “a 25 cent a litre cut to fuel to help families. It’s $1,200 back of your own money that you’ve paid in taxes to help you get through Labor’s cost-of-living crisis … Making home ownership a reality again for young Australians, with our five-point plan for home ownership … Keeping our communities safe and keeping our country safe as well.”

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He is pushed on by the host: “But if polls are to believed, none of that is sticking.”

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Dutton responds that “the race is on”.

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There are 30% of people who are undecided at the moment and the race is on as to whether people think our country can afford three more years of Anthony Albanese.

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The Greens want to lower the retirement age to 65, and boost the age pension to above the poverty line, in their latest policy announcement.

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The party leader, Adam Bandt, will make the announcement in Richmond, the electorate around Byron Bay, today – one of the seats the Greens are whispering about potentially flipping on election night. They would seek to make the pension policy one of their priorities in the next term of parliament.

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“By lowering the pension age from 67 to 65, recipients who benefit would on average receive $18,000 more a year. This includes those moving from JobSeeker to the age pension,” the Greens said in a statement.

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There are currently 54,295 JobSeeker recipients who are aged over 65. Since 2017 the proportion of people older than 65 receiving JobSeeker, DSP or the carer payment has doubled.

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The Greens say the change would largely benefit older women, who are more likely to face poverty in old age than men.

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“In a wealthy country like ours, no one should retire into poverty … There is a poverty crisis among older Australians and it’s worse for older women, who are one of the fastest growing groups facing homelessness,” Bandt said.

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The Greens candidate for Richmond, Mandy Nolan, said her local area had one of the highest housing and rent prices in Australia.

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“Yet the pension has remained below the poverty line. In a wealthy country, housing stress and homelessness should not be an issue for our elders,” she said.

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Good morning and welcome to our live news blog. I’m Martin Farrer with the top overnight stories and then it’ll be Rafqa Touma to take you through the day.

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The Greens are out of the blocks first today with another of their policy announcements, this time a policy that would lower the retirement age to 65, and boost the age pension to above the poverty line. Adam Bandt says Australia is a wealthy country and people should not suffer poverty in their old age. More coming up.

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As thoughts turn to actually voting – and some have already done so – we have a guide to the minority parties on your ballot paper – the ones you might want to back and the ones you might not want to see in the Senate. More coming up.

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In the week when the Coalition launched its policies to tackle domestic violence, our reporters have asked every police jurisdiction how it assesses risk in family violence offenders to get a better understanding of how the system should work. More coming up.

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Kangala Wildlife Rescue have revealed Valerie the dachshund’s first meal after 529 days on the run.

In a social media update, Lisa Carran from the Kangaroo Island wildlife rescue organisation said:

We had her favourites – roast chicken and her favourite dog food as well – to help her recognise that we were safe and that we were not a threat.

Jared Karran, also from Kangala Wildlife Rescue, said:

She looks quite big on the camera. When I saw her in real life, she is tiny.

He said they were being extremely careful not to let Valerie out of the cage.

There was no way we were letting that sausage dog run away on us again.

They said Valerie’s owners, Josh and Georgia, were “over the moon” to receive the news that their pup had finally been secured and would be on her way home soon.

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