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Australian Labor Party leader Bill Shorten, right, pauses after placing a floral tribute to the late former Australian Prime Minster Bob Hawke at the Opera House in Sydney, Friday, May 17, 2019. A federal election will be held in Australian on Saturday May 18, 2019. (Lukas Coch/AAP Image via AP)

Polls open in Australian election; opposition tipped to win

By Rod McGuirk - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan 20, 2019, file photo, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison watches the fourth round match between Australia's Ashleigh Barty and Russia's Maria Sharapova on Rod Laver Arena at the Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne, Australia. Saturday, May 18, 2019 is the last possible date that Morrison could have realistically chosen to hold an election. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

A mystery to many, Australian PM is a tough sell at election

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, right, and Bill Shorten, leader of the federal opposition, arrive on stage before the third leaders debate at the National Press Club in Canberra, Wednesday, May 8, 2019. Australia will have a national election on May 18. (Mick Tsikas/AAP Image via AP)

Australian political contender fights back tears over mother

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, left, talks with attendees at the Country Women's Association NSW annual conference in Albury, Tuesday, May 7, 2019. Morrison was was hit on the head with an egg and a woman was knocked off her feet during a protest at the event. (Mick Tsikas/AAP Image via AP)

Australian prime minister hit with egg in protest

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, left, and opposition leader Bill Shorten shake hands before the Sky News/Courier Mail People's Forum in Brisbane, May 3, 2019. Scandals surrounding candidates have become distractions for Morrison and Shorten this week as they attempt to focus voters on policies ahead of the May 18 election. (Gary Ramage/Pool via AP)

Australian prime minister rejects candidate’s Islam posts

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

Julian Assange gestures as he arrives at Westminster Magistrates' Court in London, after the WikiLeaks founder was arrested by officers from the Metropolitan Police and taken into custody Thursday April 11, 2019. Police in London arrested WikiLeaks founder Assange at the Ecuadorean embassy Thursday, April 11, 2019 for failing to surrender to the court in 2012, shortly after the South American nation revoked his asylum .(Victoria Jones/PA via AP)

Australia opposes death penalty as Assange supporters march

By TREVOR MARSHALLSEA - Associated Press

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, second left, shakes hands with Governor General Peter Cosgrove as he leaves Government House in Canberra, Thursday, April 11, 2019, after a meeting to dissolve parliament and head for a Federal Election. (Mick Tsikas/AAP Image via AP)

Australian election May 18 to be fought on refugees, economy

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

The Latest: Prime minister announces election will be May 18

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FILE - In this Feb. 13, 2019, file photo, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison addresses the media at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia. Morrison was labeled the &quot;Accidental Prime Minister&quot; when he was thrust to the top of a bitterly divided Australian government facing likely defeat in elections only months away. Since he was elected prime minister in a leadership ballot of colleagues in his conservative Liberal Party on Aug. 24, 2018, Morrison has taken as much time as he had available to repair the government and define his leadership before facing the voters. (AP Photos/Rod McGuirk, File)

‘Accidental Prime Minister’ has short run-up to Aussie vote

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 13, 2019, file photo, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison addresses the media at Parliament House in Canberra. May 18 appears the most likely date for Australia’s next election at which the conservative government will seek a third three-year term. Government sources told the media on Sunday, April 7, 2019 that Morrison will not call an election on Sunday, which had been widely anticipated. (AP Photos/Rod McGuirk, File)

Australian election on May 18 appears likely

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

Australian Treasurer Josh Frydenberg addresses the media as he arrives at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, Tuesday, April 2, 2019. Frydenberg said he will unveil Australia's first balanced annual budget plan in a decade days before general elections are called. (AP Photo/Rod McGuirk)

Australia plans to balance books in pre-election budget

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

In this Feb. 13, 2019, file photo Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison addresses media at Parliament House in Canberra. Morrison, on Tuesday, March 26, 2019, accused an influential minor political party of trying to &quot;sell Australia's gun laws to the highest bidders&quot; by asking the U.S. gun lobby for donations. (AP Photos/Rod McGuirk, File)

Australian PM rules out minor party deal to protect gun laws

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

Religious representatives perform a special blessing ceremony on the site of Friday's shooting outside the Linwood mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, Monday, March 18, 2019. Three days after Friday's attack, New Zealand's deadliest shooting in modern history, relatives were anxiously waiting for word on when they can bury their loved ones. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

The Latest: Spy agency says no threats ahead of massacre

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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison holds a booklet as he delivers an address to the National Press Club in Canberra, Monday, Feb. 11, 2019. Morrison used the speech on the eve of Parliament's first sitting day of the year to detail his conservative coalition's record on a diverse range of security issues including military spending, stripping extremists of Australian citizenship, asylum seekers, contentious laws to prevent criminals using encrypted communications and domestic violence. (Lukas Coch/AAP Image via AP)

Australian prime minister boasts security credentials

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

FILE - This Sept. 4, 2018, file photo shows Nibok refugee settlement on Nauru. Australia announced on Sunday, Feb. 3, 2019 that the last child refugees held on the Pacific atoll of Nauru will soon the sent to the United States, ending the banishment of children under the government's harsh asylum-seeker policy as elections loom. (Jason Oxenham/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Australia says last child refugees to leave Nauru camp

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018, file photo, prison guards escort Bahraini football player Hakeem al-Araibi from a court in Bangkok, Thailand. Thailand officially received a request from Bahrain to extradite a detained soccer player who has refugee status in Australia. The foreign ministry says the request for extraditing Hakeem al-Araibi has been forwarded to prosecutors for deliberation. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe, File)

Wife of detained refugee soccer player appeals to Thai PM

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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison grimaces during a speech in Brisbane, Australia Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2019. Morrison has raised the prospect of the nation suffering its first economic recession in 28 years if the opposition wins general elections due by late May. (Darren England/AAP Image via AP)

Australian prime minister warns of recession risk after vote

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

Australian prime minister begins 2-day visit to Fiji

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 18, 2018, file photo, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks during the APEC 2018 meetings in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. Australia has decided to formally recognize west Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, but won’t move its embassy until there’s a peace settlement between Israel and Palestinians, Prime Minister Morrison announced Saturday. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)

Australia recognizes west Jerusalem as Israel’s capital

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Australia wants it easier to strip extremists of citizenship

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press