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Polls open in Eastern states

Just before 8 a.m. in Sydney, the polling station officially opened!

Voters can vote between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. today.

For a review of when, when and how to vote, here is our 2025 voting guide with everything you need to know.

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this The last newspaper of the election It is suggested that Anthony Albanese will ignore trends in recent years and become the second-term prime minister since John Howard.

The investigation of Australians gave the coalition a 52.5-47.5% lead on a bipartisan priority basis.

Based on primary voting, the labor force is 33 points, the alliance is 34 points, the Green Party is 13, one country, eight countries

More importantly, it shows that most voters think they will be better than the coalition than another Labor government.

However, according to our political journalist Dan Jervis Bardy, the result remains “the edge of the knife.” Although Albanese looked as if his nose was in front, Peter Dutton still claimed that he would win a shocking victory.

Read Dan's article here:

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Kate Kelly
Kate Kelly

Asked about what she thought was going to cut, Katy Gallagher said:

We have a clear message. We provide our cost and transparency. We've let people know how we're going to help them, and I think with the release of liberal costs, what they saw yesterday afternoon - no wonder in the dying age of the campaign, you know, the bigger deficit, higher taxes, higher taxes and cuts Medicare cuts the nuclear money, and I think that's certainly the mind and center of people. What do you want in the future?

Do you want the seven nuclear reactors built in this country that you will pay with taxes?

Asked if she gave her alliance credit for finding something that could save money, she said:

I think yesterday’s issuance cost was a huge effort. I didn't accept it for a moment - I've looked at these costs thoroughly - and in fact, they can provide a bottom line of improvement through the program. It's about cutting down on public services - going to 41,000 jobs.

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Kate Kelly
Kate Kelly

Labour Finance Minister Katy Gallagher and Shadow Minister James Paterson both presented their final votes to voters at 7:30 last night.

Paterson denied that the Liberal Party would change pensions for people abroad after the cost of the coalition indicated that the party would change social security rules so that people traveling internationally would only get a four-week payment.

Patterson said:

As of today, the Prime Minister has told more than 100 of the sport. His latest lie is that the opposition is proposing a change in pensions for overseas people. There is no such change. We have nothing to change with the pensioners.

Patterson said many voters will immediately make up their minds before entering the booth:

They will have to decide whether to make $14 in gasoline or diesel? Do they want a $1,200 tax refund next year? Do they want to have a strong economic plan under Peter Dutton, and who can get the cost under control and our country gets back on track?

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Good morning, welcome to our Election Day blog. It's been a long five weeks, but it lasts a day - despite the fact that about 7 million people have voted.

We will bring you news about how everything happened this morning (from the entire region of Australia to Antarctica and London, back).