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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese should be charged by Northern Territory Police with attempted murder for his cold-blooded action in deliberately inflicting massive head injuries on a Channel 10 cameraman at an election campaign event in Darwin on Saturday.

After approaching the man and repeatedly bashing his head with a heavy and sharp football, the weak and cowardly Prime Minister – who might well have been also concealing a large knife – compounded his vicious attack by later physically threatening the distressed cameraman against reporting the crime even as the victim of his rampage was clearly lapsing in and out of consciousness while teetering on the brink of death.  (main picture). If this assault had taken place in Melbourne, people would now be too afraid to dine out.

It is no wonder crime is soaring across the nation and every household is under imminent threat from roving gangs of lawless immigrants when it is led by a lefty woke thug who cares so little for human life.

Okay, sorry for those three totally fictitious paragraphs, but we just wanted to open this report by having our reader imagine how the Liberal Party PR agency, otherwise known as Sky LNPNews of any Newscorpse rag for that matter, might have treated the incident in which Opposition Leader Peter Dutton cemented his well-deserved reputation as a head kicker.

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We’ll kick off our real review of DAY NINE (that’s what we think it is and we might be the only ones who do so!) with some interesting movements in the odds being offered by online betting firms.

Here are the odds we snared at around 8.40pm last night, compared with roughly 24 hours earlier.

Sportsbet: Labor $1.40 (was $1.61); Coalition $3.00 (was $2.25)
Ladbrokes: Labor $1.40 (was $1.60); Coalition $2.75 (was $2.20)
TAB: Labor $1.38 (was $1.52); Coalition $3.10 (was $2.50)
bet365: Labor $1.40 (was $1.57) Coalition $3.10 (was $2.50).

So, after a week showing a steady drip with Labor shortening and the LNP drifting out a bit, the gap widened quite a bit throughout Saturday and we’re not sure why. The bookies responding to bets placed (we didn’t know anyone cared enough yet to be that interested) or they got wind of a poll we haven’t caught onto yet? Sure, Peter Dutton didn’t have the best of week one and there’s nothing yet to suggest the weeks to come will prove any more favourable to him.

So, did much happen on DAY NINE, Saturday April 4?

Dutton, the man with so few policies to push, walked back his pledge to force work-at-homers back to their public-service office desks. That will now only be for Canberra-based government employees.

We read somewhere also that shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor had agreed to debate Jim Chalmers. Hold on a bit! Perhaps that explained why three of the bookies mentioned above blew out the LNP’s chances to more than twice that of Labor’s?

As expected, Saturday was dominated by Trump’s Liberation Day tariff tough-talk. It made for limited news coverage to the domestic campaign, so we had limited opportunities to progress our study of how various politics scribes love to favour Dutton over Albanese.

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But the reliable Greg Jennett on ABC News last night gave us a good glimpse at why some critics think he’s the best LNP publicist who also reports on national politics!

Below are some pars we have shamelessly copied from our other post uploaded today.

Jennett’s kicks off (sorry!) with Dutton bonking a cameraman in the head with a wayward kick of a football. But then it was straight into some tough talking from Dutton on how he as PM would quickly put port back into safe Aussie hands! Take that, you Commies bastards.

Albanese then gets to have his short spray on the issue. By accident or design, Jennett has no interest in spending just a few seconds making it clear that Dutton was responding to the PM’s intentions. Albanese phoned into the ABC’s radio studios the day before to announce his government’s buyback plan. Guardian Australia ran the story the next morning.

A bit later on, Jennet tries his best to debunk Albanese’s claim that he had told the Chinese owners of the 99-year lease of his buy-back plan. Albanese “insists” he told the port’s Chinese owners of the buy-back plans but then Jennett says the owners “dispute” that. We then see a letter from the Chinese owners saying they had not had any discussions with either the Northern Territory or the federal government.

Anyone doubt Jennett is trying there to say Albanese is lying? Maybe someone should explain to Jennett that the comments from both sides are not mutually exclusive. Both can be right. As arguably one of this nation’s finest politics reporters, Jennett has – by accident or design – missed the basic logic of that.

Now, can anyone of you BUGgers out there guess who gets final billing in Jennett’s report? Yes, shots of Dutton walking and then saying something! Who would have guessed, eh?

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No changes to the two-party preferred averages of the four current opinion polls we’re keeping an eye on – Newspoll, Resolve, Roy Morgan and YouGov. We will be able to update soon with some fresh polling due over the weekend.

Labor: 51.25; Coalition 48.75.

As mentioned before, Guardian’s Essential Poll thinks it’s professional or clever or responsible not to publish a two-party preferred figure. The Bug calls bullshit on that. Nevertheless, its latest primary figures suggest however a slight Labor lead.

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And was anyone yesterday worthy of our ….

Just about every host at Sky LNPNews, of course, but we forgot to snare any one in particular. Look here! We try our very best to make this daily poll review the best in Australia and, sure, we might fall short now and then but do you know how much we get paid to do this?

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