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As flagged in the introduction, our reporters Dan Jervis Brady and Josh Butler have been out on the stump all week with Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton.
They have put their heads together and given an assessment of how the two campaigns have handled the first week, concluding that the Labor man has probably had the best of it fired up by his surprise tax-cutting budget and a strong message on beefing up Medicare.
Albanese and senior Labor strategists didn’t panic as the Coalition inched ahead in the opinion polls midway through 2024. They were confident the contest would tighten and turn in their favour when voters were confronted with the “choice” of a Dutton or an Albanese government.
He is under pressure, though, and facing a ticking clock on questions he refuses to answer – there’s only so much longer he can promise that the gas modelling will come “soon”, that he will announce his public service cuts “at an appropriate time”. He’s getting questions on this nearly daily, and even joking that the “anticipation” of journalists will soon wear off.
Albanese won the week. Even Dutton may admit that. But it’s just one week.
‘I’m not getting ahead of myself,’ Albanese said. ‘Elections are hard to win, and there are four weeks left in this campaign.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is reportedly looking for a way out of the Trump administration following the Republican president’s disastrous tariff rollout damaged his “credibility,” alleged MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle on Friday. “Some [sources] have said to me, he’s looking for an exit door to try to get himself to the Fed, because in the last few days he’s really hurting his own credibility and history in the markets,” said Ruhle on MSNBC’s…
A federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to arrange for the return of a Maryland man to the United States after he was mistakenly deported to a notorious El Salvador prison, while a U.S. government attorney was at a loss to explain what happened.
Bryce Hopkins’ workout wasn’t complete when Rick Pitino ended the session. Any concerns the St. John’s coach may have had were gone by that point.
The Boston Red Sox have a problem behind the plate that could derail their promising season, but a new trade idea solves it, and another issue as well.
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President Donald Trump had nearly clinched an agreement with TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance Ltd. that would spare the popular app from a US ban, but the deal was scuttled after China withheld its approval following this week’s tariff announcement, according to a person familiar with the matter.