The Prime Minister and Opposition leader are on a blitz of marginal seats as the election campaign enters its final days. Anthony Albanese is in Queensland where he held a street walk through a market after earlier being pressed on Labor’s economic management. Meanwhile Peter Dutton’s first media conference of the day was delayed by anti-nuclear protests.
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00:00Well, the Prime Minister is here at a food court in the safe Labor-held seat of Morton
00:08and he is joined by Labor's candidate Julianne Campbell.
00:12Well, as he's done for the past couple of days, the PM is on a street walk here
00:17taking selfies with voters, chatting to voters.
00:20What he's trying to do here is lend a bit of Prime Ministerial staff power
00:23really to the Labor candidate's campaign.
00:25But the fact that he's holding these street walks
00:27and mixing with regular people on the street is really a departure from Labor's campaign so far
00:33which has been much more sort of tightly controlled and choreographed.
00:36Perhaps it reflects a little bit of confidence in the Labor camp
00:39that they're able to take a few more risks with just four days to go until polling day.
00:46The Prime Minister today has really been pressed on Labor's economic management
00:50and that is following a warning from credit ratings agency S&P
00:54which has told both major parties that their big spending agendas at this election
00:59coupled with not a lot on the budget repair front
01:02could threaten Australia's AAA credit rating.
01:05It is a coveted rating that Australia does not want to lose.
01:08If Australia is downgraded, it means debt repayments become a whole lot more expensive.
01:12Well, today the Prime Minister and Treasurer repressed on just the extent to which
01:17they've actually repaired the budget bottom line in their first three years in power.
01:21The Treasurer Jim Chalmers really brushing off criticism
01:24while strong boning the S&P ratings agency to keep Australia's credit rating where it stands.
01:30There would be no reason to lose the AAA if Labor is re-elected
01:34because we've shown not just an enthusiasm for responsible economic management
01:38but we've got a good record of responsible economic management.
01:41I invite you to recall what the budget looked like on the day that we came to office.
01:45The Prime Minister started the day in the seat of Griffith
01:48which he believes should still be in Labor's hands there.
01:51He kept a focus on Labor's housing policies.
01:54The local member now is Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather
01:57who also happens to be the minor party's housing spokesperson.
02:01We then moved on to a polling booth in the Liberal-held seat of Bonner
02:04before finishing up here in Moreton.
02:06Queensland has been a tricky state for Labor federally
02:10but on Saturday night Labor is hoping to at least pick up one or two seats here.
02:15that's going to be the next door.
02:16That's the one that's going to be here.
02:17The people in the classroom.
02:19We will also wait to see the schedule of Tim Hathbomba
02:22because the state of the state of the state of the state was at least one.
02:24The people in the middle traditionally have been paying late.
02:26They haven't even paid to the state of the state of the state of the state.
02:29They're meant to be there because it's going to be different
02:30and the people of the state of the state of the state of the state of organism.