Fadden will show if voters are ready to blame Labor for the economy, or keep bashing the Coalition

Prime minister Anthony Albanese and Labor candidate Letitia Del Fabbro on the campaign trail in June for the Fadden byelection. Photograph: Darren England/AAP

Australian federal elections are not won and lost on the northern tip of the Gold Coast.

But byelections are important tests for the performance of the government and opposition – even though they take the electoral temperature in just one small part of the country.