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Albanese says he’s aiming for ‘again to again wins’
The prime minister Anthony Albanese was on ABC earlier this morning, saying “again to again wins” is “what we’re aiming for at this time”.
He made his remaining pitch to undecided or disillusioned voters:
We now have a plan for value of dwelling reduction at this time, by investing in tomorrow. We now have a plan to guarantee that we proceed to construct extra pressing care clinics. 1.3 million Australians have benefited from that … 600,000 Australians have benefited from free Tafe … And for each single Australian taxpayer, all 14 million of them … will get a tax lower. We’ve created one million jobs since we had been in workplace. Unemployment is the bottom it has been for any authorities in 50 years. However we all know that there’s extra to do, but when we get it proper, if we’re optimistic about Australia’s future, together with appearing on local weather change and the chance it represents, not simply the problem, then we will be extremely profitable as a nation, and that stands in distinction to our opponents who’ve been bumping into one another on the sphere, who haven’t been capable of take a mark throughout this marketing campaign as a result of they don’t know what they’re doing.
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n It’s unclear how this may translate into seats given the rise within the variety of electorates which might be three-way contests, slightly than coming right down to a struggle between Labor and the Coalition. Pollster Shaun Ratcliff advised Guardian Australia that the most recent polls present the Coalition “going backwards” in a collection of key seats he has been monitoring, after preliminary polls in February had the Coalition forward.
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You could find extra granular breakdowns of the polls, together with by demography, on our monitoring web page.
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Somewhat further afield, Australians have already voted, Emily Wind reports:
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In the leadup to election day, Australians have cast their ballots in a number of remote locations and even from overseas – but none as far south as the 100-odd expeditioners currently working in Antarctica.
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Expeditioners working at Australia’s Antarctic and sub-Antarctic stations were able to cast their vote by telephone – a process typically reserved for voters who are blind or have low vision – with no physical ballot booth setup this year.
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Voting opened on 22 April, with expeditioners able to vote early or on election day. But, unlike others, they won’t be fined if they do not vote, according to the Australian Electoral Commission.
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The AEC says Australians travelling to work in Antarctica need to register as an Antarctic elector before leaving the country – with “Antarctic” including the Australian Antarctic Territory, the Territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Macquarie Island, and a ship at sea in transit to or from Antarctica.
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Arrangements were put in place for expeditioners on the RSV Nuyina in case it arrived back later than scheduled (on 2 May, the day before the election).
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It is just past 8am here in Sydney, and the polling booths are officially open!
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Voters can lodge their ballots between 8am to 6pm today.
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For a refresher on when, where and how to vote, here is our 2025 voting guide with everything you need to know.
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Key occasions
Henry Belot
The Greens chief Adam Bandt is at a polling station in East Brunswick, a Melbourne suburb within the voters of Wills that the Greens are hoping to win from Labor. He’s handing out find out how to vote playing cards alongside the Greens candidate, Samantha Ratnam.
The Greens chief can be a fan of the pre-9am democracy sausage. When requested if that is his first sausage of the day by a volunteer, Bandt mentioned “the actual query is what number of will I eat at this time?”
Wills is one in every of two goal seats for the Greens in Victoria. The opposite is Macnamara, in Melbourne’s south japanese suburbs.
Henry Belot
Greens candidate in hotly contested Wills places case to Labor voters
The Greens candidate in Wills, Samantha Ratnam, was at a polling sales space in East Brunswick as quickly because it opened this morning. She’ll place her vote right here alongside the Greens chief, Adam Bandt, shortly.
Wills is a hotly contested seat, with the Greens hopeful they will choose it up from Labor MP, Peter Khalil. In latest days the finance minister, Katy Gallagher, has been at polling cubicles serving to to safe the seat.
The battle in Gaza has been a problem on this seat – together with the price of dwelling. On my means into the polling each, I walked previous a small canine that had a Palestinian flag connected to its collar.
Ratnam is attempting to persuade Labor voters to make the soar to the Greens:
A vote for the Greens is a vote to maintain Dutton out and to get Labor to behave – there is no such thing as a threat that you just’ll assist Dutton get elected by voting for the Greens.
Polls open in WA
The clock has struck 8am in Perth – that means polling stations are all formally open throughout Australia. Comfortable voting!
Voters popped by the polling station at Bondi seaside after a morning swim to forged their votes. A vibrant sight!
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Peter Dutton makes his remaining pitch to voters
Dutton gave his remaining pitch to undecided voters on 9’s Weekend As we speak:
I’ve the expertise because the defence minister and residential affairs minister and because the well being minister and immigration minister, I’ve labored for 4 prime ministers, and I used to be the assistant treasurer to Peter Costello. I wish to assist get our economic system again on observe.
I wish to scale back inflation so we will carry the rates of interest down and produce value of dwelling down, lower petrol by $0.25 a litre, $1,200 tax rebate again. Restore the dream of residence possession and get this nice nation again on observe.
Opposition chief Peter Dutton was on 9’s Weekend As we speak earlier this morning. Requested if he’ll keep in politics and as opposition chief if he loses the election, Dutton mentioned he’s nonetheless younger with a “burning ardour”:
You’ll be able to’t go to the grand remaining speaking like that. You’ll be able to solely discuss profitable.
I’m 54. I’m nonetheless very younger, and I’ve simply acquired a burning ardour … for this nation. And I simply suppose we stay in the most effective nation on the planet. No matter we will do to make it even higher is what we contribute ourselves to.
And I’ve labored actually arduous over the past three years. We’ve acquired a united group, and I feel there are numerous quiet Australians on the market who is probably not telling their neighbours how they’re voting, however I feel they’re going to enter the polling sales space and say, you understand what, I’m not going to reward Anthony Albanese for the final three years. And I feel the opposite mob can handle the economic system extra successfully, can preserve us protected in a very unsure time. And might attempt to carry the crime charges down in our native suburbs as properly. I feel they’re all, you understand, the ideas which might be going by means of folks’s minds for the time being.
Martin Farrer
Below an ideal blue sky maybe extra harking back to residence than the customary gray of London, ex-pats in Britain have been queueing as much as vote at Australia Home.
The wait to forged a poll has been as much as half-hour with the road snaking out of the doorway and up and down the pavement.
From neatly dressed workplace employees (the lads making up absolutely the largest focus of RMs within the northern hemisphere) to holidaymakers guaranteeing they don’t get caught out for not being at residence, there was a big cross-section of Australians within the line
But when the variety of folks holding Labor how-to-vote playing cards was something to go by on the day Guardian Australia did its democratic responsibility, it’s a surefire landslide for Anthony Albanese at this time.
Requested how a lot Donald Trump and worldwide politics has influenced the Australian election, Albanese mentioned: “this has overwhelmingly been about Australian points”.
The prime minister mentioned the opposition has made an try at working “American type politics right here of division”:
In the meantime, the opposition thought that they may simply run on grievance and attempt to divide Australians. We’ve seen them attempt to begin tradition wars, together with towards Indigenous folks, focusing on them. Australians aren’t obsessed by these points. We’ve seen an try and run American type politics right here of division and pitting Australians towards one another, and I feel that that’s not the Australian means.
Albanese says he’s aiming for ‘again to again wins’
The prime minister Anthony Albanese was on ABC earlier this morning, saying “again to again wins” is “what we’re aiming for at this time”.
He made his remaining pitch to undecided or disillusioned voters:
We now have a plan for value of dwelling reduction at this time, by investing in tomorrow. We now have a plan to guarantee that we proceed to construct extra pressing care clinics. 1.3 million Australians have benefited from that … 600,000 Australians have benefited from free Tafe … And for each single Australian taxpayer, all 14 million of them … will get a tax lower. We’ve created one million jobs since we had been in workplace. Unemployment is the bottom it has been for any authorities in 50 years. However we all know that there’s extra to do, but when we get it proper, if we’re optimistic about Australia’s future, together with appearing on local weather change and the chance it represents, not simply the problem, then we will be extremely profitable as a nation, and that stands in distinction to our opponents who’ve been bumping into one another on the sphere, who haven’t been capable of take a mark throughout this marketing campaign as a result of they don’t know what they’re doing.
Remaining polls present Labor in lead
Josh Nicholas
Labor is main the Coalition 51.4% to 48.6% in Guardian Australia’s ballot tracker, after a flurry of ultimate polls from DemosAu, Newspoll, YouGov and Roy Morgan. That is near a repeat of the final election, however, as you may see within the chart under, even on election day there may be nonetheless uncertainty.
Labor’s estimated major vote is regular at 30%, and the Coalition 33% within the newest common. The polls have Labor’s major vote a bit of bit greater than this, however the mannequin thinks there is likely to be an overestimation of Labor as was seen in earlier elections.
The estimated major share for the Greens is about 13% based on our mannequin, which might be a couple of one level enhance on the final election. Others and Independents, a bunch that features One Nation and the Teal independents, are on 23.5%, up about 4 factors.
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