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Scott Morrison and Bill Shorten to make their final major speeches today

Federal Elections 2019

Australian Opposition Leader Bill Shorten and Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Source: AAP Image/Mick Tsikas

News Bulletin in Arabic for the day


Prime Minister Scott Morrison will today urge Australians not to turn back, in his last major address of the federal election campaign.

Mr Morrison will start the day in Sydney, before flying to Canberra to give a speech at the National Press Club.

In that speech, he will focus heavily on the theme of economic growth.

He will say Australia cannot afford the opposition's agenda, which he continues to describe as big-taxing and big-spending.

Federal opposition leader Bill Shorten will today make the case for a change of government in his last major address of the election campaign. 

He'll speak at Bowman Hall in the suburb of Blacktown in Sydney's west. 

At this venue in 1972, Labor leader Gough Whitlam gave a similar speech, shortly before being elected as Prime Minister, and ending Labor's twenty-three years in opposition. 

In today's speech, Mr Shorten will focus heavily on climate change and presenting the Labor party as a united and stable alternative to what the government, which he refers to as a coalition of chaos.

Listen to the full news bulletin in Arabic above


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