Australians will go to the polls on 21 May to vote in the federal election, the prime minister’s office has confirmed
Morrison has spent the past week campaigning in a swathe of marginal NSW seats, including Banks, McMahon, Parramatta, Shortland, Dobell and Robertson. He has also visited marginal seats in Tasmania and Victoria.Labor holds a notional 69 seats in the 151 seat House of Representatives, so needs a net gain of four seats from the Coalition to hold more seats in the House, and a net seven seats to form majority government.
“They’re running a negative campaign. They’re going to have a really difficult month over the next month, because Scott Morrison is running like an opposition leader. He’s stopped governing.” Morrison has been framing the campaign as an “opportunity for scrutiny” of Albanese, saying he has gone untested by voters so far.
A Guardian Australia analysis of seat visits by the two leaders shows that since Parliament rose in December last year, Morrison and Albanese have spent most of their time campaigning in NSW and Queensland.The Labor leader has spent most of his time on the road since December in Queensland after also taking a holiday there over the Christmas break.
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