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Monday 13 May 2019

Australian prime minister bares self in campaign launch

By ROD McGUIRK and higher taxes will put all
Associated Press of that risk at the worst pos-
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) sible time.”
— Australia’s prime min- The government in April
ister on Sunday officially outlined an economic
launched his conservative plan that would balance
coalition’s campaign less the books in the next fiscal
than a week before an year for the first time in 12
election in an extraordinari- years. Labor has promised
ly personal presentation. to deliver bigger budget
Scott Morrison is his govern- surpluses by reducing tax
ment’s third prime minister breaks for landlords and
in the administration’s six some shareholders.
years in office and still re- The bitter divisions within
mains relatively unknown the Liberal Party that thrust
to many Australians, who Morrison into power in Au-
he is asking for a third three- gust last year were still evi-
year term when they vote Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks during the launch of his Liberal Party campaign at dent at the launch on Sun-
on Saturday next week. the Melbourne Convention Centre in Melbourne, Australia, Sunday, May 12, 2019. day.
The coalition’s launch in Associated Press None of the three surviving
the city of Melbourne at a and sharing a bedroom Lily, 9. He said his father landlords would steepen a former Liberal prime minis-
convention center includ- until he was in high school John Morrison was “too current downturn in house ters attended. John How-
ed recorded interviews with an older brother who frail” to attend. Morrison prices in major cities. ard is Australia’s second-
with Morrison family mem- was studying at university. gave his mother and wife Morrison described the longest serving prime min-
bers that covered his wife “Life’s about what you bouquets of flowers to ac- election as a choice be- ister who spent 11 years in
Jenny’s diagnosis with en- contribute, not what you knowledge Mother’s Day in tween him and opposition office until his government
dometriosis, their 14-year accumulate. That’s what Australia. leader Bill Shorten as prime was defeated at elections
failed battle to conceive mum and dad have taught Morrison also outlined gov- minister. in 2007. Tony Abbott spent
through IVF before having me,” Morrison told a gath- ernment policies including “The choice between a three years in office before
their two daughters natu- ering of government min- support for first-home buy- government that knows he was dumped by party
rally, and Jenny Morrison’s isters and supporters of his ers to help them enter the how to manage money, colleagues in 2015 in the
brother’s struggle with mul- Liberal Party. housing market. has returned the budget face of dismal opinion poll-
tiple sclerosis. Morrison was joined on the The government argues to surplus and will now pay ing. He was replaced by
Morrison, a policeman’s stage by his mother Mar- that the center-left oppo- down debt,” Morrison said. Malcolm Turnbull, who was
son, also spoke of his mod- ion Morrison, his wife and sition Labor Party’s policy “Or Bill Shorten and Labor, similarly dumped by col-
est upbringing in Sydney daughters Abbey, 11, and of reducing tax breaks for whose reckless spending leagues last year.q
UN leader arrives in New Zealand

on climate change trip

By NICK PERRY to media alongside Prime tacked two mosques dur-
Associated Press Minister Jacinda Ardern in ing Friday prayers. He said
WELLINGTON, New Zealand Auckland. he admired the solidarity
(AP) — U.N. Secretary-Gen- Guterres plans to spend New Zealand showed after
eral Antonio Guterres said three days in New Zea- the attack, and praised Ar-
Sunday that the political land as part of a trip to the dern for helping implement
will to fight climate change South Pacific to highlight new gun control laws and
seems to be fading at the the problems of climate for urging other world lead-
same time as things are change. ers and tech companies
getting worse for those In Christchurch, he will also to find a way to prevent
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, right, feeling the effects. meet with Muslim lead- acts of extremism from be-
gestures as he talks with New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Guterres made the com- ers following the March 15 ing shown online, after the
Ardern at Government House in Auckland, New Zealand,
Sunday, May 12, 2019. ments after arriving in New slaughter of 51 worship- gunman livestreamed his
Associated Press Zealand, where he spoke pers by a gunman who at- attack on Facebook. q