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Opposition leader Anthony Albanese has visited two key marginal Adelaide seats in a busy last day of campaigning across three states ahead of tomorrow’s poll, while Prime Minister Scott Morrison says he is confident in the judgement of voters who backed him last election.
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Labor’s hopeful for SA’s marginal seat of Boothby says the Opposition backs offshore asylum seeker processing but “we separate that from offshore detention”, while the Liberal candidate has backed an increase in Australia’s refugee intake, at a forum ahead of this week’s federal poll.
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A prominent welfare agency leader and critic of the Marshall Government’s recent homelessness reforms is looming as the likely Labor challenger for the key federal SA seat of Boothby, InDaily understands.
Outgoing federal Liberal MP Nicolle Flint has savaged her party’s moderate faction amid internal rancour following a weekend preselection to anoint her successor – as Labor’s Right-wing settles on its own candidate for one of the state’s safest seats.
A former federal hopeful and a current senate candidate will face off for Liberal preselection in the marginal SA seat of Boothby – but they could both face strong competition from a political cleanskin who is expected to garner the backing of the party’s Right faction.
UPDATED | A Marshall Government minister is among several Liberal contenders considering a run at Nicolle Flint’s soon-to-be-vacated federal seat of Boothby, but the Labor candidate who almost snared the seat at the last election has ruled herself out of a second crack.
