This week, the Reserve Bank of Australia played itself into the federal election campaign in a way we haven’t seen for 15 years. Whatever the impact of its 0.25 percentage point rate rise on Tuesday – the first in more than 10 years – it is certainly not a positive for the struggling Morrison government.
Labor appears set for an historic win in the NSW seat of Bega while the Liberals have suffered a swing against them in former premier Gladys Berejiklian's seat of Wi.
A new poll from Laurier Institute for the Study of Public Opinion and Policy has found about a third of voters in Waterloo region remain undecided when asked who they'd vote for in the next federal election.
It is one year until the provincial election and political organizers across northeastern Ontario are getting ready for the race, while also prepping for a federal campaign that could come first.