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Stating the factsCommentsPremiumFact Checker: How we kept the bastards honest

Over the past six weeks Fact Checker attempted to filter the spin, identify unrealistic promises and call out the BS.

John Flint

‘We have made history’Premium‘Humbled’ Albo set to deliver majority govt with WA’s help

A ‘humbled’ Anthony Albanese will become Australia’s 31st prime minister, with Western Australia helping deliver what is likely to be a majority government for Labor.

Lanai Scarr

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analysis
‘The great west’Comments
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It was all down to WA and boy, did we deliver

Western Australia was the cherry on top for Labor, likely to deliver a majority Albanese government into power.

Lanai Scarr

Lanai Scarr

Marginal seatCommentsLabor’s ex-FIFO worker first woman in 101 years to win Swan

With 35 per cent of the vote counted, the Liberals had suffered a swing of 12.5 per cent against them in the crucial seat, with Zaneta Mascarenhas officially declared the new MP.

Caitlyn Rintoul

Labor winVideoCommentsPremiumWATCH: Anthony Albanese’s victory speech

Labor leader Anthony Albanese has delivered his first speech after winning the 2022 Federal election.

Big predictionCommentsPremiumMcGowan says WA could ‘very easily’ decide election outcome

West Australian Premier Mark McGowan says the state's Federal seats could decide the election outcome.

Under the pumpVideoComments‘They’re very unusual’: McGowan hounded at polling station

Mark McGowan was heckled by anti-vaxxers as he cast his vote at Safety Bay Primary School on Saturday.

Joe Spagnolo

Race to be PMVideoCommentsPremium‘We’re better than that’: Albo’s promise ‘to unite Aus’

Anthony Albanese has given a call for unity, saying he hopes to see less division if he is elected prime minister.

Annabel Hennessy

TV blitzComments‘Give me a crack’: Albo tells country to ditch ‘risky’ Libs

Anthony Albanese has declared the current Government is ‘more risky’ and that’s why voters should ‘give Labor a crack’.

Annabel Hennessy

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opinion
Intelligent lifeCommentsPremium
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The things our pollies could learn from the ‘aliens’

Two big events happened this week: an election and a hearing on UFOs. Unrelated? I think not.

Kate Emery

Kate Emery

Every vote countsCommentsPremiumCrucial seats: How WA could decide the election result

Experts have weighed in on how some key marginal seats in Western Australia may determine the next Prime Minister.

Angie Raphael

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analysis
Lanai ScarrCommentsPremium
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It will be a tight count that might not be over tonight

Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese have left nothing on the field. They’ve both fought this campaign hard. On Saturday at 6pm it’s tools down. But it may take much longer than that to determine a winner.

Lanai Scarr

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Australia decidesCommentsPremium
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Albo’s final pitch: ALP promises ‘better future for all’

When the cost of the necessities of life, like food and clothing, grows faster than pay packets of Western Australians, there is something wrong with our nation.

Anthony Albanese

Service saviour?CommentsPremium‘Must stay open’: McGowan considers Activ workshop lifeline

The McGowan government may intervene to save Activ workshops from closing, saying the sites employing more than 700 people with disability ‘need to stay open’.

Rebecca Le May and Josh Zimmerman

Last-ditch bidCommentsPremiumPollies take to TikTok to win over apathetic youth

Social media behemoth TikTok is being used to win over apathetic young voters, turning their attention to Saturday’s Federal poll in the dying stages of the election campaign.

Michael Traill

Iso rule changeVideoCommentsBackflip gives COVID-infected power to vote over phone

Anyone who is in isolation with COVID will be able to vote in tomorrow’s Federal election by telephone following a major backflip — three days after The West Australian revealed infected voters could miss out.

Peter Law

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investigation
Everything you need to knowCommentsPremium
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Federal election policy almanac: Who is promising what?

Over the past six weeks we’ve been bombarded with pledges, promises and bitter campaign battles. But where does each party stand on the key election issues? The West Australian investigates.

Fact CheckerCommentsPremiumCoalition off target attacking Labor over costings admission

Labor broke with convention by releasing policy costings that would dent the Budget bottom line by an extra $7.4 billion.

John Flint

Election countdownCommentsPremium‘Our borders are closed’: Albo’s bizarre unemployment gaffe

PM hopeful Anthony Albanese has claimed Australia’s borders are closed - even though international travel was reopened in February - in his latest pre-election stumble.

Fact CheckerPremiumWhat has either party done right with broadband?

The NBN hasn’t featured much in this election campaign, despite many Australians having cause to frequently curse internet dropouts and sluggish speeds.

John Flint

FINAL BLITZCommentsPremiumLabor to hit 20 Lib-held seats in final days of campaign

Labor will ramp up its campaign in the last two full days before the election, sweeping through 20 marginal electorates across the country.

Lanai Scarr

Watch NowVideoCommentsPremiumUp Late: The most awful ads of the 2022 Federal election

In Wednesday’s show, Ben Harvey reviews the worst political ads of 2022 and reveals the archaic reason Australians will see fewer of them after 12.01am on Thursday.

Up Late | Wed, May 18

‘Show us the money’PremiumLabor eyes private sector to help fund Aboriginal Centre

The WA Government may consider a segmented delivery of an Aboriginal cultural centre in Perth, admitting a matched Federal and State Labor $50 million pledge may not complete the project.

Caitlyn Rintoul

‘Targeted investments’VideoCommentsAlbo lays out economic credentials in Press Club address

Anthony Albanese has laid out his economic credentials three days out from the election — and without yet having released his full policy costings.

Lanai Scarr