Summarize and humanize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in English
By MAX AITCHISON, POLITICAL REPORTER FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA Published: 23:56 BST, 20 April 2025 | Updated: 05:48 BST, 21 April 2025
Australians will head to the polls a week on Saturday.A major poll has found that Labor’s primary vote has rise to 34 per cent – its highest point in more than a year.While voters view Peter Dutton as the stronger leader when it comes to defending Australia or growing the country’s economy, the Opposition Leader will need an Easter miracle to oust Anthony Albanese from the Lodge. Follow Daily Mail Australia’s live coverage of day 24 of the federal election campaign below. Protester hurls abuse at AlboA protester has unleashed on the Prime Minister, accusing him of ‘ripping off indigenous people’.Local activist Bronwen Smith, who was wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with an Indigenous flag the shape of Australia, launched into a wild rant as Mr Albanese visited an urgent care clinic in Batemans’ Bay on Monday morning.‘He’s been in government for years, ripping off Aboriginal people. We’re over it!’, Ms Smith screamed at the waiting press pack.She demanded the PM come out and address the small group of protesters who were carrying signs opposing the closure of the emergency department at Batemans Bay Hospital and one that said ‘No AUKUS’.‘We want our homes fixed, we want the government to intervene clean it up so indigenous people and non-indigenous people have nice clean houses,’ she yelled.‘Our children are neglected, this is disgusting. Where’s Albanese? Where is he?’The PM fronted a press conference where he was promoting the extended opening hours for the urgent care clinic.He also took aim at the Opposition Leader’s frontbench, which he claimed was overcome with ‘chaos’ and the ‘leftovers of the Morrison government’.‘One of the things that is emerging very clearly is that the other team aren’t so much a team there is chaos on their side,’ Mr Albanese told reporters.‘They have senior shadow ministers who haven’t been sighted. ‘I don’t know where Andrew Hastie has been – he’s the Shadow Defence Minister. Angus Taylor, not quite sure what he’s doing as the Shadow Treasurer.’Snips and selfies for the PMThe PM had a lunch alongside the, Labor candidate for Menzies Gabriel Ng and Foreign Minister Penny Wong at the Golden Lilly restaurant in Box Hill in Melbourne.A waitress helped Mr Albanese avoid any photo gaffes by cutting his spring roll in half with a pair of scissors, as the PM posed for selfies with other patrons. Dutton accuses PM of ‘ducking and weaving’The Opposition Leader has accused Mr Albanese of having ‘ducked and weaved’ on the issue of a proposed Russian military base in Indonesia.It comes after the PM refused for a sixth day in a row to say whether Indonesia told him it had received a request from Russia for military access.Defence Minister Richard Marles claimed there is ‘no prospect’ of Russia building a military base on Australia’s doorstep, while Employment Minister Murray Watt went further, claiming on Sunday that no request has been made.And Mr Albanese tried to dismiss Moscow’s alleged power moves in the Indo-Pacific as ‘propaganda’ on Monday.But Mr Dutton has now called for clarity from the PM, claiming he has ‘ducked and weaved’ for too long on the issue.‘The government’s language keeps changing. That seems strange,’ Mr Dutton told reporters on Monday.He said the Coalition had requested a briefing from Labor about the possible threat to national seciuirty.‘It’s still not forthcoming from the government. What do they have to hide? I wish this prime minister could be open and honest with the Australian people and he hasn’t been in relation to this issue,’ he said.Mr Dutton added: ‘The Prime Minister has questions to answer and for six days he has refused to do it.’It comes as Moscow’s ambassador in Jakarta, Sergei Tolchenov, has accused both leaders of trying to out-do one another by dialling up the anti-Russian rhetoric ahead of the election.He condescendingly claimed Australia’s leaders ‘have no cards’ on the issue.Anthony Green reveals who will win electionDutton’s $750m pledge to crack down on crimeThe Opposition Leader has promised a further $375 million to tackle organised crime, illegal drugs and paedophiles, bringing the Coalition’s total commitment to tackling crime to $750 million.Mr Dutton is expected to launch Operation Safer Communities on Monday, which will see a ‘crack down on crime from the border to the backyard’.The Coalition’s plans also include a National Drug Enforcement and Organised Crime Strike Team and a new sex offender’s list.The National Child Sex Offender Disclosure Scheme, which will come at a cost of $21 million for a year-long pilot, will allow members of the public to request information from police about whether any one who interacts with their children is a convicted sex offender, according to the Daily Telegraph.Albo finally responds to DM storyAnthony Albanese has repeatedly claimed he was the ‘first leader in the world’ to respond to Donald Trump’s punitive tariffs.But Daily Mail Australia highlighted how he was in fact the second world leader to respond, after Sweden’s Prime Minister beat him by around 12 minutes.Senator James Paterson, the Coalition’s campaign spokesperson, said it was a ‘bizarre boast’ for Mr Albanese to make in the first place.’It’s even worse now it appears it was wrong,’ Mr Paterson told this publication.’Anthony Albanese should come clean: did he deliberately lie to cover up his weakness standing up for Australia or is he just not across the details of an important issue of national interest yet again?’But now the PM has tried to pour cold water on our story while repeating his claim to have been the first leader to respond.Mr Albanese was criticising Peter Dutton on Monday morning, claiming he ‘always shoots from the hip’. ‘This is the same person who after the United States administration made its tariff announcement – I was up before 8:30am that morning,’ he told reporters.‘I was the first world leader to make a statement. I do note that I read somewhere that someone in Sweden tweeted: not quite the same thing, with respect.‘I made a consistent, coherent statement of Australia’s position at that time calling it an act of economic self-harm, and outlining the measures that Australia has put in place to protect our national interests.’You can make up your own mind about who was first to respond by reading the below story:Major poll indicates who will win on May 3Russia’s ominous four-word warning Valdimir Putin’s man in Jakarta has fired a warning to Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton over their opposition to a proposed Russian military base in Indonesia.The prospect of Russian aircraft operating out of Indonesia’s Biak Island, just 1300km from Darwin, sent shockwaves through the federal election campaign last week.Mr Albanese accused the Opposition Leader of ‘verballing’ the Indonesian President after Mr Dutton claimed that Indonesian President had confirmed reports that Russia wanted to fly aircraft out of the country.Mr Dutton was later forced to apologise for the comments but warned that Russia’s ‘closeness’ with Indonesia was ‘concerning’.But now Moscow’s ambassador in Jakarta, Sergei Tolchenov, has accused both leaders of trying to out-do one another by dialling up the anti-Russian rhetoric ahead of the election.‘It is clear that the leaders of the two main political parties, replacing each other in power and calling it democracy, are now trying to outdo each other, heating up the situation,’ he wrote in a letter to the Jakarta Post.‘They stop at nothing, and the time has come to play the so-called “Russian card”.‘This means to show to overseas mentors who is more anti-Russian and Russophobe.’But then the Russian diplomat, quoting directly from Trump’s now-infamous altercation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the White House, issued an ominous warning: ‘You have no cards’.He is warning that whoever wins on May 3, they should not stand in Russia’s way.Read more about Moscow’s play for a military base in Indonesia below:
Advertisement
Share or comment on this article:
LIVE: Election 2025 – Screaming protester unleashes on Albo as she accuses the Prime Minister of ‘ripping off Aboriginal people’
