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Mon 28 Apr

Australia Institute Live: Day 31 of the 2025 election campaign. As it happened.

Amy Remeikis – Chief Political Analyst

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Jason Clare has been rolled out this morning for early media. He is asked about the ‘it doesn’t work that way’ comment from last night’s debate, over why Anthony Albanese just didn’t call Trump’s mobile.

Asked about some of the chat groups between world leaders, Clare says:

That happens with a number of leaders but when you are talking about the most powerful country in the world, when you are talking about the leader of the United States, it is unsurprising and appropriate that that sort of conversation, that interaction is done at a formal level. It is not just a secure room, a secure line but you have note takers who take a formal record that is published afterwards of that conversation.

Good morning

CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?

We have made it to the final week.

Mostly intact.

Not sure if we can say the same for the nation though.

The last debate (we could not bring ourselves to cover another one) went down much as the others – sticking to lines, false fights and ridiculous calls to the margins – in this case, Peter Dutton doing all he can to dog whistle about Welcome to Country ceremonies.

Shockingly, the man who boycotted the National Apology to the Stolen Generations and destroyed the Voice referendum with a bunch of lies, Welcome to Country ceremonies are “overdone”.

Dutton’s final week will be a full mask-off moment, where he will do all he can to woo One Nation voters in the outer rim seats and he’ll do it relentlessly.

So prepare yourself for that. The other stand out moment was over whether or not Donald Trump owns a mobile phone. So yeah. It went places.

We’ll cover the day as it happens. You have Amy Remeikis with you, and the brains of the Australia Institute at your disposal.

I will need three coffees to get through these next few hours.

Ready? Let’s get into it.

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