Two warriors on the right and left of the Australian Parliament have begun their five -week confrontation while the nation goes to the polls.
Anthony Albanese declared that “he was born ready” while heading to the parliamentary courtyard in Canberra to confirm that the elections would be held the third of May.
He It meant that many were probably finishing their breakfast when the prime minister delivered a message of optimism in the “uncertain times” and a nation that doubles an economic corner.
“Only work has the plan to improve in the next three years,” he said holding a Medicare card as a symbol of .
Anthony Albanese has caused medical care to spend a key table of its electoral platform. Fountain: AAPA / Lukas Coch
The theatrical work strategy to announce the survey managed to get a significant oxygen from the revelations of coalition policies the previous night.
The ink in the response speech of the budget on Thursday at night of the opposition leader was barely dry when he made the foot of the capital of the nation to his native state of Queensland to deliver his opening campaign speech.
Peter Dutton’s meeting call is his statement that Australia is retreating under work and the nation cannot afford three more years of the same approach.
The electoral slogan of the coalition was printed on the podium and was repeated in the backdrop “Let’s Get Australia back to the track”.
Peter Dutton chose to give his first campaign speech in Brisbane, not in Canberra. Fountain: AAPA / Tails search
Now there is For voters to weigh.
Labor was right of income tax through Parliament before calling the elections. At a cost of $ 17 billion for three years, it has been labeled as a “recharge” in the tax cuts of stage 3 that are already being delivered.
The coalition has promised Instead, proposing an immediate but temporary cut of 25 cents to the fuel tax at a cost of $ 6 billion.
The opposition said that it would not be in the path of reimbursement of the energy invoice of $ 150 dollars that work has offered, but is now processing a long -term energy policy plan for a
That is the bridge solution presented as the coalition pursues nuclear energy, although that could be a decade away.
The prime minister warned that now it was not the time to “cut and destroy, point under, hit or look back” and warn against the adoption of the policies of other countries.
Dutton described the “weak” and “incompetent” prime minister and characterized the comparisons between his policies and those of the Trump administration as a “sled-a-thon.”
The labor has a thin majority of two seats and, with so many electorates at stake, it is aware that there is much to lose if campaign messages do not land.
The coalition only won 53 seats in the last elections, and although the redistribute suggests that they now do not take into account 57, it is still an steep mountain to claim 19 seats and govern directly.
As the country’s marginal seats are going through to sell their policies, both leaders are also aware that they are not only fighting each other by votes. The march of the growing cross continues to gather strength.
His messages are addressed not only to voters, but also those politicians who may need to court if the nation offers a .
Surveyers have been testing the vote throughout the country, with special attention to marginal seats.
In general, they report that the support base for the main parties is soft and many Australians feel disconnected or have not decided.
That is particularly the case in the exterior suburbs of Sydney and Melbourne, where it is considered a strip of marginal seats ‘at play’.
If these surveys are precise, this choice will be won or lost in the campaign.
