Day: March 27, 2025

Prime minister expected to kickstart Australian election campaign with Labor battling to hold off Peter Dutton’s Coalition. Follow today’s news live

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Good morning and welcome to our live blog. I’m Martin Farrer with some of the main headlines this morning before Krishani Dhanji takes over to guide you through what promises to be a big day.

Anthony Albanese is expected to soon make the short journey from the Lodge to Government House, where he will ask the governor general, Sam Mostyn, to issue the writ for the holding of a federal election. It is expected that polling day will be in early May, most likely Saturday 3 May. We will have every move as it happens, with the prime minister expected to hold a press conference shortly after that.

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Kerri Pegg, 42, also accused of accepting gift of Mercedes from man styling himself Jesse Pinkman

A prison governor has denied two counts of misconduct in a public office after she allegedly entered into a relationship with an inmate and drug trafficker who called himself Jesse Pinkman, the name of a meth dealer from the TV show Breaking Bad, a court has heard.

It is alleged Kerri Pegg, 42, became “emotionally and personally involved with a serving prisoner”, Anthony Saunderson, the boss of a drug dealing gang who used the Pinkman name as a handle during secret communications with other criminals. He has since been convicted of serious drug trafficking.

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