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A Liberal Party campaign truck has crashed into an early voting centre in western Sydney, causing significant damage and forcing voting at the centre to be delayed for several days.
The truck was wrapped in campaign material advertising Liberal candidate for Greenway Rattan Virk when it smashed into a portico at Quakers Hill Community Centre yesterday.
Video footage shows a man hastily removing Virk's signage from the truck following the accident.
A spokesperson for the NSW Liberal Party apologised following the crash in a statement shared with 9news.com.au, but didn't address the footage of the man removing the party's signage from the truck.
"Yesterday, a truck delivering materials to Quakers Hill Community Hall dislodged a portico," the spokesperson said.
"We sincerely regret any inconvenience this has caused for the local community.
"The local campaign proactively contacted the appropriate authorities and fully cooperated, following instructions when they arrived to assist at the hall."
Virk is challenging the seat of Greenway, where the damaged voting booth is located, this federal election.
It is currently held by Communications Minister Michelle Rowland on a margin of just under 8 per cent.
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Coalition’s nuclear cost estimates ‘laughable’: Katy Gallagher
By Josefine Ganko
Gallagher criticised the Coalition’s accountability for the cost of its nuclear policy, after Angus Taylor suggested it was sufficient to provide forecasts in the medium term.
“Look at what is happening around the world. In Hinkley, a [proposed] $35 billion nuclear reactor is over a decade late and costs $90 billion, and that is in [the UK] where there is an existing nuclear industry, which we don’t have here,” Gallagher said when asked if she believed the Coalition’s nuclear policy was achievable.
“I think it is laughable to suggest you don’t need much more investment over the short term, if you are actually going to build these nuclear reactors. They are either not committed to it or are hiding the numbers from people,” she continued.
Afternoon Briefing host Patricia Karvelas then raised Taylor’s claim that Labor doesn’t provide forecasts of how it will pay for things in the future, asking if it was reasonable that the Coalition had given a medium-term forecast.
“We aren’t suggesting taxpayers find a whole new energy system, which is what they are suggesting,” she replied.
“We accounted for our investment in energy in which they want to cut through their costings today, and we have been very clear about that, including with the role the private sector will play in investing in our renewable energy future.”
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/federal-election-2025
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