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[Australia TODAY] Bill Shorten grilled in questions on emission costs

Labor party volunteers listen to Australian Opposition Leader Bill Shorten in Sydney

Labor party volunteers listen to Australian Opposition Leader Bill Shorten in Sydney Source: AAP

Australia TODAY looks into key stories featuring in the front page of major daily newspapers on 18 April.


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Australia TODAY looks into key stories featuring in the front page of major daily newspapers on 18 April.


The Australian

Australian businesses could be forced to spend more than $25 billion on

international carbon credits to meet Labor's 45 per cent emissions reduction

targets by 2030, jeopardising one of Bill Shorten's fundamental election

pillars, which he declared would have no cost to the economy.

Scott Morrison is leaning on wife Jenny and former prime minister John Howard

for "critical" advice as he attempts to navigate a path to an unlikely election

victory.

Indonesian President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo was on course to secure a second term

last night in a result that signalled a rejection of the politics of pessimism

peddled by his two-time challenger and former Suharto-era general, Prabowo

Subianto.

    

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