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Wrapping up today’s live coverage
By Latika Bourke
And that’s where we’ll leave today’s coverage of the final day of the election campaign. Thanks for your company.
Here’s what you need to know tonight.
- Anyone who tested positive for COVID-19 since 6pm last Friday are eligible to vote in the election by telephone, after our reporting of the loophole exposed tens of thousands of Australians who could be barred from having their say in tomorrow’s election.
Read more: ‘Emergency measure’: Election rules to change allowing more COVID-positive people to vote
Polls open at 8am tomorrow and close at 6pm but we’re already breaking records in terms of early voting.
Read more: Democracy sausage under threat as millions vote early
- The final day of campaigning saw Scott Morrison stir the pot in Perth, Western Australia as he denied suggestions one of his own security ministers might have leaked against him.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison stirs a curry.Credit:James Brickwood
Read more: Liberal MPs accuse DFAT of leaking against the government
Former Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
- Anthony Albanese hosted Julia Gillard for coffee in Adelaide as the former prime minister urged women to “vote for Albo.”
It’s the first time since Gillard has intervened in Australian politics ever since she was ousted by Kevin Rudd, in a brutal leadership spill backed by Albanese.
And away from the campaign,
- Monkeypox arrived via two separate cases in Australia but health authorities are urging people not to panic about the virus’ arrival into the country.
Read more: What is monkeypox and should we be worried?
We’ll be back bright and early in the morning until the wee hours of Sunday night to take you through the election results live.
Thanks for your company today and see you in the morning.
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‘It’s our grand final tomorrow’: Albanese thanks supermarket workers in late-night Chisholm visit
By Katina Curtis
In his fourth campaign stop of the day, Anthony Albanese has thanked supermarket workers at a warehouse in Glen Waverley, which is in the marginal Victorian seat of Chisholm.
Deputy Labor leader Richard Marles and the candidate Carina Garland joined Albanese in greeting the dozen workers.
Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese and Deputy Labor leader Richard Marles take a selfie during a visit to meet with supermarket workers in the seat of Chisholm on Friday. Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
He told them about his job stacking shelves as a young man and that his son Nathan now works for Woolworths in Sydney.
“Thank you for what you do and thank you for what you did during the pandemic,” he said.
“It’s our grand final tomorrow, we’ve got the captain and vice captain of the team here – and hopefully a new recruit.”
Some of the workers wished Albanese luck for Saturday.
Regional polling places saved after AEC recruits last-minute staff
Regional polling places in Western Australia, Queensland and South Australia at risk of staying closed due to understaffing will open tomorrow, the Australian Electoral Commission has confirmed after a last-minute push for extra staff.
Electoral Commissioner Tom Rogers said they’d lost 15 per cent of their 105,000 workers in the last week due to COVID.
“If election day begun at 7pm tonight every single one of the 7,000 polling places we’ve planned for would open its doors,” Mr Rogers said.
“To voters, if there is a queue remember to treat our staff with kindness. You wouldn’t have a local polling place with them.”
The AEC has been plagued by eleventh-hour staff shortages and outrage after the commission said some people who caught COVID-19 this week would be unable to cast their ballot.
The decision has been reversed and phone voting is open to COVID-19 positive voters.
‘I’ve left nothing in the tank’: Albanese and Morrison to begin election day in Melbourne
By Angus Dalton
After spending the penultimate day of the election campaign blasting through four states, Labor leader Anthony Albanese joined Rafael Epstein on ABC Radio this evening and confirmed he’d begin his day tomorrow in Melbourne.
Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese holds Labor frontbencher Mark Butler’s baby Charlie as he meets with former prime minister Julia Gillard on Friday.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
Both of the men vying to form government will wake up in Victoria’s capital before flying to Sydney to vote in their respective seats.
After spruiking Labor’s climate policy and insisting his government could improve wages, Albanese told Epstein Labor was “devastated” by the party’s shock election loss in 2019.
“That’s the truth. Some people would’ve loved to have gone into a corner and got into the foetal position,” he said.
“I have put us in a position whereby we are competitive at worst. I’ve brought us to a position whereby we’ve got a real shot of forming a majority Labor government tomorrow. Will we? We’ll wait and see. That’s up to the voters.
“I’ve left nothing in the tank.”
Albanese echoed comments earlier today from Prime Minister Scott Morrison predicting that the election will be a close call. He agreed with Epstein that there “probably” won’t be a result by 8pm at the earliest.
The Labor leader will join Leigh Sales on the ABC’s 7:30 tonight.
PM stirs the pot in Hasluck in final hours of the campaign
By James Massola
Scott Morrison has made his fourth campaign stop of the day in the seat of Hasluck, hamming it up for the cameras, kneading and cooking naan bread, taking time to stir a curry and press the flesh.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison stirs a curry.Credit:James Brickwood
He also announced $1.3 million for a sporting complex for the local Sikh Gurdwara Perth centre.
He joined the local Sikh community for an afternoon tea.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison and wife, Jenny, knead naan bread.Credit:James Brickwood
His final event for the day is in the Labor-held seat of Cowan, which has a margin of 0.9 per cent, before he flies back to the east coast.
This will mean he has held five events in four seats in just over half a day of campaigning.
Shoeless and heads covered, the Morrisons seek Sikh votes
By Latika Bourke
Scott Morrison and his wife Jenny are continuing their blitz across Western Australia, visiting a Sikh temple in the electorate of Hasluck.
Scott Morrison and Jenny Morrison visit Sikh Gurdwara Perth, in the seat of Hasluck, on Friday. Credit:James Brickwood
That’s a seat held by minister Ken Wyatt with a margin of 5.9 per cent. If the Liberals lose Hasluck, it’ll be a real rout in the West, so Morrison’s visit there this afternoon could be an ominous sign.
Several of my own Liberal sources have said to me this week that they are worried about the seat falling, along with Liberal-held Swan and Pearce.
ASX at the close
By Colin Kruger
Wall Street wobbles overnight did not stop the ASX 200 rebounding strongly on Friday, up 1.2 per cent to 7145.6, helping snap a four-week losing streak.
Almost every sector closed higher on Friday with energy the only significant laggard thanks to Woodside Petroleum’s drop.
Tech led the charge, gaining more than 4.5 per cent, with Afterpay’s volatile owner rebounding nearly 10 per cent on the day.
Explainer: How worried do you need to be about monkeypox?
By Latika Bourke
Given the first-ever confirmed cases of monkeypox in Australia today, reporter Sherryn Groch has pulled together this explainer with all you need to know about the virus and how worried you need to be.
Read more: What is monkeypox and should we be worried?
Liberal Bridget Archer gets front-row seat to Albanese’s Labor love-in
By Katina Curtis
A bemused Bridget Archer, the incumbent Liberal member for the seat of Bass, watched on as Labor volunteers and travelling media piled into the chaotic car park outside a polling booth.
Albanese chatted with Sinead Connaire, whose great-nephew Carter was strapped to her chest.
Bass is currently held by the Liberals’ Bridget Archer on a margin of 0.4 per cent, the party’s tiniest in the nation.Credit:Joe Armao
“It’s our 18-year plan,” Albanese said, referring to a joke from earlier in the day about recruiting more Labor members.
He then signed the back shoulder of a “DJ Albo” T-shirt worn by Tahnee Byas, who told him she too dabbled as a DJ.
A One Nation volunteer shouted questions about whether Labor would sign Australia up to the WHO pandemic treaty, which has become the latest bête noire of the anti-vaxxer movement.
“We’d like to know! Give us an answer,” she shouted.
Then there was a brief chant of “Albo! Albo! Albo!” by the Labor supporters before the leader headed off, leaving the car park to shoppers and voters.
UAP sends out WHO scare texts, ads
By Latika Bourke and Nick Bonyhady
Have you received any of these spam text messages falsely claiming that Australia is transferring all its “hospital health” to the World Health Organisation (WHO)?
They are authorised by Craig Kelly, the former Liberal MP and now leader of the United Australia Party, which is funded by mining billionaire Clive Palmer.
Texts of this nature are not breaching any electoral rules, as they clearly state that they are authorised by Kelly.
And if you haven’t been lucky enough (italics for sarcasm) to receive one, you may have found it impossible to escape similar ads online.
In the dying days of the election campaign, the UAP is airing ads with a voice-over that gravely says:
“Liberal and Labor are transferring Australian health to the WHO a day after the election. China controls the WHO. We have to protect our country.”
The ad is a reference to the proposed pandemic treaty the WHO wants to establish, which some critics say would give the UN agency the right to order domestic lockdowns.
At a press conference on May 17, the organisation’s director-general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus hit out at rumours circulating globally about the information-sharing plans.
“Unfortunately, there has been a small minority of groups making misleading statements and purposefully distorting facts,” he said. “I want to be crystal clear: WHO’s agenda is public, open and transparent. WHO stands strongly for individual rights.”
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