Australian Federal Election 18th of May 2019

[AtorBoltox]

What is it with the medias visceral hatred for Shorten? They've been trying to peddle this narrative for years now that he's on the verge of collapse. It hasn't happened and it won't happen in the next month. This supposed 'coalition comeback' they've been peddling this week is pure fantasy

[AtorBoltox]

What is it with the medias visceral hatred for Shorten? They've been trying to peddle this narrative for years now that he's on the verge of collapse. It hasn't happened and it won't happen in the next month. This supposed 'coalition comeback' they've been peddling this week is pure fantasy

All that needs to be said is that Rupert Murdoch owns most of our media.

I get that, and I can also understand why Fairfax would oppose Labor, but even the Guardian and the ABC seem to have a visceral dislike of Shorten

[AtorBoltox]

A couple questions:

1) What are the major issues this election?

2) What are the odds that the small parties with one seat each (Green, Katter, Xenophon) retain their seats or pick up additional ones?

1-Anemic wage growth, climate change/environment, labor's tax plans
2-Greens will easily hold onto Melbourne, but it doesn't look likely they'll win anywhere else. Katter is an institution but his party is not seriously contesting any other seat, and Sharkie in Mayo seems to have established herself and is pretty popular there, however since 2016 the Xenephon party has mostly collapsed as a political force

[AtorBoltox]

Any locals wanna update on this? We're less that two weeks from E-day and it's hard to discern what's been cutting through among those of us in non-Oz.

Coalition have focused their entire campaign on fear mongering about Shorten and Labor's tax policy. The polling has tightened somewhat but I'm not sure whether that should be trusted given Morrison continues to extensively campaign in seats held by the coalition on large margins. There's also been a shockingly high number of candidates who've been forced to drop out after the ballots have already been printed and early voting begun for making offensive statements