Australia's Victoria state will vote to select its next government on Saturday in what polls predict to be a close-run contest with the incumbent Labor government's lead against the conservative coalition shrinking in the final campaign stretch.
Centre-left Labor was comfortably ahead during the initial stages of the campaign after eight years in power, but a poll done for The Age newspaper out this week showed voters cutting their support.
Labor is ahead 53-47% on a two-party preferred basis against the Liberal-National coalition, though that has dropped from 59-41% in the previous poll in October.
