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Australian politics Wednesday 21 Aug 2013 g Latest More » Election 2013: second Rudd v Abbott debate build-up – politics live blog Kevin Rudd goes into the second debate in Brisbane very much the underdog he wanted voters to believe he was at the start of the campaign Nova Peris: I have been subjected to racist abuse Indigenous Labor candidate says claims about her father and about being pursued for debts were sent to newspaper Australian Politics Weekly podcast: Half-time in the election campaign Katharine Murphy is joined by Lenore Taylor and Greg Jericho to take stock at the midpoint of the 2013 federal election Labor pledges $15m for regional and rural cancer care nurses Nurses will co-ordinate services to support cancer patients and their families outside big cities Comment is free More » We wouldn't treat animals the way we treat refugees | Julian Burnside Julian Burnside: If either party were promising to be cruel to animals, it would lose the election. But being cruel to asylum seekers is now a national sport in Australia, and our national character is being redefined NBN: we would have been better off without privatisation | John Quiggin John Quiggin: The construction of an Australian national broadband network would be much simpler and cheaper if Telstra had never been privatised. The only solution is a return to public investment Video More » Election 2013: 'This is the craziest election that I've been involved in' - video This is the eighth federal election veteran photographer Mike Bowers has covered. After spending the first two weeks of the 2013 campaign following Kevin Rudd he describes the madness of day-to-day life with the PM and his travelling circus Election 2013: day 17 campaign video roundup Labor is facing further intense scrutiny of its hardline asylum seeker policies after refugee advocates launched a new court challenge to its so-called PNG solution Australian politics Comment is free Get more Guardian emails

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