Friday 20 May 2022 04:01 AM Australian election: Scott Morrison Kristy McSweeney Perth Anthony Albanese ... trends now
Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese are blitzing marginal electorates in a final campaign dash to convince voters to pick them on Saturday - giving clues to the leaders' priorities in the final 24 hours.
The Prime Minister is campaigning in Western Australia, where two Coalition seats and one Labor seat are vulnerable.
Strategists believe WA, which is considered a Coalition stronghold, will be crucial for both sides. The state is considered a 'great unknown' with many of the political issues that dominated the east coast not resonating to the same degree after it was locked off from the rest of the nation in a pandemic bubble for the past two years.
On Friday morning Mr Morrison appeared alongside Kristy McSweeney, the candidate for Swan where Steve Irons is retiring with a margin of 2.7 per cent. The Prime Minister will tonight fly to Melbourne.
Meanwhile, Anthony Albanese is launching a three-state blitz. He has started the day in Adelaide and will also be hitting Tasmania before also finishing in Melbourne.
On Friday morning Mr Morrison appeared alongside Kristy McSweeney, the candidate for Swan where Steve Irons is retiring with a margin of 2.7 per cent
The marginal seats he will be visiting are Boothby and Sturt in South Australia, Bass and Braddon in Tasmania and Chisholm, Higgins, Casey and Deakin in Victoria.
The opposition leader was with Australia's first female prime minister Julia Gillard at a coffee shop in the South Australian seat of Sturt on Friday, alongside prominent Labor frontbenchers Penny Wong, Amanda Rishworth and Mark Butler.
While Ms Gillard has made video messages in support of Mr Albanese and ACT senator Katy Gallagher, it is her first in-person appearance of the election.
She urged female voters to back Labor,
