Election 2022 LIVE updates: Labor pledges to bolster Pacific defence after Peter Dutton’s ‘prepare for war’ comments; campaigns continue across the nation

“Coal and gas corporations fuelled the floods and they should pay for the damage they have caused to the Northern Rivers.”

Bandt said the party would also push for a doubling of funding for emergency services to $5 billion over 10 years.

Nolan is trying to win the seat from Labor’s Justine Elliot, who won the seat on a 4.08 per cent margin at the last federal election.

“In the balance of power, I’ll be pushing for urgent funding to strengthen our responses and ensure villages and towns across Richmond can invest in the critical infrastructure and equipment they need to manage the floods of the future,” Nolan said on Tuesday.

The Coalition established the “safeguard mechanism” in 2016 to set limits on the 215 biggest industrial polluters that cumulatively generate 28 per cent of national emissions, but to date the limits on polluters were so slight that industrial emissions have increased since it was established.

Labor’s climate policy would impose emissions caps on these big polluters to reduce Australia’s national emissions budget to help it reach net zero emissions.

The opposition’s climate change and energy spokesman Chris Bowen said the limits imposed on trade-exposed industries would be calibrated by the Clean Energy Regulator to ensure exporters were not “impacted by a greater constraint than their competitors face”.

“The government’s own modelling shows that coal will come under pressure from global markets, the independent modellers Reputex did not find any additional impacts from Labor’s policy on the operation of coal mines or indeed coal-fired power stations.”

Whitehaven, a $4.5 billion ASX-listed coal company that employs 2500 workers, said it appeared Labor had not previously assessed the impact of its emissions policies could inflict on the nation’s coal industry and its workforce.

“The fact the ALP sees such an enlarged role for the Clean Energy Regulator in negotiating with impacted facilities suggests some in Labor are only just beginning to turn their minds to what this policy might look like in practice and what the impacts could be across the economy,” Flynn said.

“Time and time again, Josh has shown his genuine care for Guide Dogs Victoria and the people with low vision and blindness we serve,” the flyer quoted Hayes saying.

Hayes also featured in a now-deleted video posted on Frydenberg’s Facebook page endorsing the treasurer, who is under threat from “Voices of” candidate Monique Ryan in Kooyong.

Last week Guide Dogs Victoria chair Iain Edwards said the board had no prior knowledge of Hayes appearing in Frydenberg’s authorised campaign material, and did not endorse it.

Last week the commissioner of the charities watchdog Gary Johns warned of the serious reputational risks for charities that co-operated in political campaigning.

Under Australian law, charities risk losing ACNC registration for promoting a political candidate, but only if one of their stated purposes is to “promote or oppose a political party or a candidate for political office” – a rare occurrence.

The CEOs of other Kooyong-based charities the Breast Cancer Network Australia and Inclusion Foundation have also endorsed Frydenberg, but neither charity has announced similar investigations.

It comes after Ryan yesterday rejected an offer by Nine, owner of The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald, to host a 30-minute studio debate between the two candidates that would have been broadcast on free-to-air TV on Thursday afternoon.

Ryan said she wanted a debate in Kooyong rather than in a TV studio in Docklands without an audience.

The Channel Nine offer followed Frydenberg’s refusal to take part in a Kooyong candidates forum on Wednesday night organised by climate change activist group Lighter Footprints.

At a photo opportunity at Whitten Oval in Melbourne’s west on Tuesday, Frydenberg did not directly respond to a question about whether he would say yes to a debate in Kooyong run by a media outlet.

“I’m ready to debate (at Channel 9) this Thursday. The so-called independent in my electorate, as of today, they’ve said no, if they would reconsider I would look forward to it,” Frydenberg said.

Nine journalist Chris Uhlman told The Age and Herald that holding a debate in Kooyong rather than a TV studio would require “an unnecessary expense”.

“This is a format that Nine Melbourne uses routinely in state elections,” he said.

The Treasurer is slated to partake in a televised debate next week against shadow Treasurer Jim Chalmers at the National Press Club in Canberra.

“I’m pro-individual freedoms, I’m anti-mandates,” he says.

“I haven’t read the Biosecurity Act in full honesty, I’m not across it … but individual freedoms is [sic] one of my three core values.”

A male audience member asks him: “Enough that you would cross the floor if you saw our individual freedoms or your community’s individual freedoms, let’s say Bennelong, being breached?“

“Yep,” Kennedy responds.

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