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Their votes won't change who wins this election. So how do people in safe seats make their voices heard?

Marginal seats get most of the political and media attention during the election campaign. So what's it like for those living in some of Australia's safest seats?

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Podcast: What you need to know before you vote in Newcastle

If politics is about change, then Newcastle must be a political town, with the reworking of the city's face and character in recent years, to the point that it barely resembles the place in that 1970s hit, "The Newcastle Song", but one thing that hasn't changed in more than a…

Newcastle Herald

Leaders make election eve pitch to voters

Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese have hit the ground running on opposite sides of the country on the last day of the federal election campaign.

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Aged care sector wants Covid prevention funding restored as 30% of homes grapple with outbreaks

Industry criticises Australia’s ‘perverse incentive’ that reimburses providers for the cost of outbreaks but not for preventing them

The Guardian - AU

Labor to set up independent environmental protection agency and restore ‘trust and confidence’

Proposed EPA to collect data on the plight of the country’s wildlife as Labor commits to global biodiversity targets

The Guardian - AU

Watch the margins: competitive market forces have come to Australia’s rural electorates

Community-based independents, regional migration and the magic of electoral marginality have the capacity to make sitting MPs work harder for every vote

The Guardian - AU

Chinese Australians say Coalition’s rhetoric on Beijing could see voters ‘switch from Liberal to Labor’

Community leaders – including Liberal party members – say tough language from Peter Dutton and others could hurt the government, particularly in Bennelong

The Guardian - AU

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Australian Greens hope election focus on climate will bring their biggest representation yet

Leaders eye balance of power as climate issues and independents boost the Greens’ electoral chances

The Guardian - AU

Too little too late: voters turn on Morrison in affluent seat of Higgins

The PM is on the nose in Melbourne’s inner east as voters cite inequality and pandemic failures – and a redistribution has put the Greens in a strong position

The Guardian - AU

Labor would deport visa holders convicted of crimes but tweak rules to ease New Zealand tensions

The Guardian understands a Labor government would ensure decisions better take into account the time a person has been in Australia

The Guardian - AU

Don’t mention the election: why are Australia’s sports stars staying silent?

As the federal election nears, athlete activists are seemingly absent from the nation’s political playing field

The Guardian - AU

The federal election questions soon to be resolved in Queensland

Analysis: the state that has a history of favouring incumbents is facing a rightwing battle for the Senate and a potential Green wave in the city

The Guardian - AU

Pollution, buses and broadband: local issues Guardian readers care about this federal election

Guardian Australia readers got in touch with a range of concerns and we put their questions to local candidates

The Guardian - AU

United Australia Party may have more backing than polls suggest, with voters too embarrassed to voice support, analysis shows

Hour-long TV ads on commercial networks aired before media blackout as part of fringe party’s projected $70m 2022 federal election campaign spend

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Scott Morrison's promise of change rubbished by several Q+A panellists as Liberal senator says he'd rather see Labor in power than a hung parliament

Prime Minister Scott Morrison is labelled out of touch on issues ranging from women to housing on an episode of Q+A where his promise to change if he again wins government is heavily maligned.

The Conversation

Grattan on Friday: Numbers fly as unedifying campaign draws towards its close

The text arrived on Thursday morning, from a woman who helps me with my horses. “And now I have to do that voting thing. Recommendations please? Who is best?”

The New Daily

Morrison and Albanese target undecided voters in final campaign blitz

The major party leaders will make crucial pitches on opposite ends of the country in 11th-hour bids to win over undecided voters.

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Northern Territory should reunify with SA, Vickie Chapman tells parliament in farewell speech

South Australia and the Northern Territory should seek inspiration from the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and seek to reunify after more than 110 years as separate jurisdictions, former SA deputy premier Vickie Chapman tells parliament in her farewell speech.

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'Psychic' crocodile named Speckles predicts Labor leader Anthony Albanese will win Saturday's federal election

Has a 4.7 metre "psychic" saltwater crocodile just determined the outcome of Saturday's federal election?

Newcastle Herald

Cost of living hits home at Shortland pre-poll

Lynda Williams and her mother Judy didn't mince words as they left the Belmont pre-poll booth.

The Guardian - AU

Australian election briefing: Labor reveals costings as Morrison bulldozes through wage questions – plus a painted rabbit

Thursday: The best of Guardian Australia’s 2022 federal election coverage

The Guardian - AU

Australia’s oil and gas regulator criticised after chief hands out environmental ‘excellence’ awards at industry dinner

Regulator says outgoing boss Stuart Smith had no role in selecting winners and was invited to acknowledge his work over eight years

Reuters

Australia election: What you need to know

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison conceded defeat and the opposition Labor Party was set to end almost a decade of conservative rule after an election on Saturday.

Newcastle Herald

Deputy PM in Hunter for $5.5 million pledge, refuses to talk 'transition'

The Deputy Prime Minister was in Muswellbrook on Thursday to announce $5.5 million in funding for amenities at Olympic Park if the Coalition is re-elected.

The Conversation

At 3.9%, Australia's unemployment rate now officially begins with '3'. What's next?

Early in the election campaign, on April 14, we learned that Australia’s unemployment rate had slipped below 4% in March, to 3.95% – the lowest rate in 48 years.

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