Saturday summary: the pre-poll surge, the drift from the majors and the scourge of ScoMo

HUNTER, HUNTED: Labor needs to win seats to form government, but cannot afford to drop seats along the way. Our Saturday snapshot shows, clockwise from top left, Barnaby Joyce at Singleton pre-poll, former Nationals leader and deputy PM John Anderson with James Thomson, a bucolic scene by the lake at Toronto and a bearded Kevin Rudd at Edgeworth on Wednesday night.

WILL we have a new government tomorrow?

The margin is narrowing, and nobody should be surprised if the Coalition holds on, despite a huge surge in pre-poll and postal voting, traditionally taken to mean that voters are taking to the government with a cricket bat.