Morrison and Shorten launch 2019 Australia election campaign with focus on economy

PM says he is looking to the future as Labor leader says Australians deserve better

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Scott Morrison has appealed to voters to stick with the Coalition because the government will keep the economy strong, while Bill Shorten has declared that only Labor is focused on the future and capable of forming a government that isn’t consumed by internal division.

In the opening sorties of the federal election campaign, the prime minister warned that the economy would be imperilled by a Labor government, and he attempted to foreground the risks of a protest vote by arguing that the outcome of the coming campaign would determine Australia’s direction for the next decade.

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