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Australian PM knocks over child playing soccer at campaign event

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison knocked a boy over and fell on top of him while playing soccer at an election campaign event on Wednesday, before quickly rolling over and checking on the child, television footage showed.

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‘Please tell me he hasn’t gone to hospital’: Morrison the bulldozer knocks over a child while playing football

Prime minister accidentally crashes into under-8s player Luca Fauvette during a campaign visit to the Devonport City Soccer Club in Tasmania

The Guardian - AU

The moment Scott Morrison 'bulldozed' over a child playing soccer in Tasmania

Scott Morrison has joked the local Devonport football team could use him as a "bulldozer" for their new grandstand after knocking over a child during a mock match.

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Labor to consider new national Covid strategy to reduce deaths

Anthony Albanese says pandemic still ‘major issue’, but Scott Morrison says Australians want to ‘put that in the rear-vision mirror’

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Prime Minister Scott Morrison crashes into a child during soccer training in Tasmania on campaign trail

The Prime Minister's pledge to stop being a bulldozer appears to come unstuck when he takes part in junior soccer training in north-west Tasmania.

ABC News

‘Very unexpected’: Scott Morrison knocks over eight-year-old boy in soccer match

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has accidentally knocked over an eight-year-old boy in front of cameras at a regional Tasmanian soccer club.

The New Daily

Australian election briefing: Scott Morrison bulldozes a kid while Anthony Albanese takes the stage

Wednesday: the best of Guardian Australia’s 2022 federal election coverage

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Morrison bowls over child playing soccer

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has crashed into a young player during a game at Devonport Football Club in Tasmania.

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Scott Morrison Absolutely Bodied This Small Child Almost As Badly As He Did The Country

Scott Morrison has become the 1st Prime Minister to ever tackle a small child during a game of soccer. Someone call this kid's mum, ASAP.

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Australian prime minister Scott Morrison flattens boy during football match

This is the moment Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison knocks over a boy during a friendly football game in Tasmania.

Evening Standard

Leaders grapple with China diplomacy

Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese have spoken about their approach to dealing with a more assertive China and building partnerships in the Indo-Pacific.

AAP

Budget repair starts with grants: Albanese

In an address to the National Press Club, Anthony Albanese has promised to return $750 million to the budget to pay back rising debt.

AAP

Australia: Labor’s lead narrows in three new national polls

Polling analyst for Australia's The Conversation site, Adrian Beaumont, analyses three big polls showing some encouragement for Scott Morrison's incumbent Liberal-National coalition

Newsroom.co.nz

‘Second miracle’ or historic win from opposition? No one knows how this election journey will end

The only certainty is when we look in the rearview mirror on Sunday morning, the Australian election result will all be crystal clear

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PM dismisses need for more measures to limit Covid deaths, suggesting Australians are dying with, not of, the virus

Scott Morrison says Australia is now ‘living with Covid’ as nation records one of the highest transmission rates in the world

The Independent UK

Australian leader won't say who might attend Tokyo summit

Australia’s leader won't say who might represent the nation at a summit with U.S., Indian and Japanese leaders just three days after elections on Saturday

The New Daily

Morrison says his ‘bulldozer’ approach has served Australia well

Scott Morrison says being a “bulldozer” has served Australia well during the pandemic – despite the country's surging pandemic death rate.

AAP

Future crises handled in same way: PM

Scott Morrison says Australians know he has the strength to make tough calls during a crisis, and that he will continue to do so during future events.

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The Conversation

Labor's lead narrows in three new national polls; and seat polls galore

The final Resolve poll for Nine newspapers, conducted May 12-17 from a sample of 2,049, gave Labor just a 52-48 lead by 2019 election preferences, a two-point gain for the Coalition since last fortnight’s Resolve. By respondent preferences, Labor’s lead was narrower at 51-49, a three-point gain for the Coalition.

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Government claims of 7% real wage rise since in office disputed – as it happened

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Anthony Albanese announces plan to cut spending on two grant programs to deliver budget windfall — as it happened

Anthony Albanese uses his National Press Club address to announce a Labor government would strip hundreds of millions of dollars from two government grant programs and put the money to better use, in an effort to improve the budget bottom line.

The Guardian - AU

Morning mail: Labor lead narrows, Ukraine surrenders Azovstal, Liane Moriarty’s writing trick

Wednesday: Guardian Essential poll has the Coalition closing the gap with Labor. Plus: outrage at Canva’s Russian operations

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Regional Queensland loses federal election spotlight as major parties focus elsewhere

Experts say there has been a "noticeable drop in emphasis" on regional Queensland during the 2022 campaign as major parties focus on other electorates.

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The Loop: ABS to release latest wages data, man charged over California church shooting, Australian Swimming Championships begin today

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Will a 5 per cent pay rise for workers lift the cost of your coffee and petrol by the same amount?

Boosting workers' wages by 5 per cent – for all workers, not just those on the minimum wage — would lead to an increase in prices across the economy of about 2 per cent, according to a new report.

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