Nervous MPs hanging on election date

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Nervous MPs hanging on election date

The bedwetters on Labor’s back bench, as Paul Keating used to call critics of his derring-do, are desperately hoping the prime minister puts them out of their misery and calls an election as soon as possible. The Reserve Bank’s first interest rate cut in almost five years is the circuit breaker they’ve all been pining for and one they hope will help them to re-election.