Not disagreeing with what you say, John, but I think the election is lost. Even without the Trump Derangement, Dutton needed a top team and a brilliant campaign, but has had neither. One unforced error after another.

Albanese stands for UN open borders and renewables net zero, Dutton stands for slightly less open borders and nuclear net zero. Is that meant to be the high water mark of contemporary conservative philosophy?

Just wait until the actual votes are counted. Results are usually different from the pontificating of pollsters, the media and "experts".

As Nick Cater says: “Welcome to Australia's first fully-fledged post-truth election campaign, where hypocrisy and deception are assets, not liabilities”.

There are lies everywhere: from candidates, bankrollers, pollsters. All that can be hoped for is that enough of the approximately 18 million voters are on to the bastards.

One of the lies by the habitual liar Albanese has been that Tony Abbott slashed $80 billion off health and education in 2014 (a decade ago !!), when in fact, health GREW by 2.7% and education GREW by 5%.

“Labor's platform is little more than a list of slogans and electoral bribes (and lies)”, yet Dutton has been incapable of doing anything with it! The only hope for Australia in the most dangerous position we have been in since WW11 with these two mutton heads trying to fool us into thinking that they are up to the job, lies with those 18 or so million voters using common sense.

Among all lies, bribery and BS from the uniparty’s childishly inept electioneering, there has been no indication that they will take the following advice from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute”

“The next government needs to confirm that the key focus for the ADF is deterrence and war fighting to ensure the defence of Australia and to support our key allies and partners in Indo-Pacific stability. That includes deterring while preparing for the possibility of protracted high-intensity major-power war within our region that would likely see Australia come under direct threat of attack and include war fighting in domains such as space and cyberspace”.

And now we know that Labor knew about Russia's request for an airbase in Indonesia months ago and that Defence Minister Richard Marles has apparently approved two new Navy tug boats to be built in China! Honestly you couldn't make this stuff up in your wildest dreams but it's reality under Labor.
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/albanese-govt-was-aware-of-russian-request-for-access-to-indonesian-air-base-in-march-ahead-of-federal-election-campaign/news-story/eb8d3ce5ee66f6052e88ca2a6b877208

Australia doesn't have a sovereign weapons capability to produce long range guided weapons, and will not have for another decade. We are dependent on foreign suppliers; hopefully not from the foreigners we have just bought a tug boat for the RAN from - Communist China!

You are kidding yourselves if you think we won't still be living in a lunatic asylum no matter who gets to be our government. The great white hope Dutton can't even guarantee a defence spend of 3% of GDP for another ten years. Everything is a decade down the track with these idiots. They didn't even have a vessel to shadow the Communist navy lapping our country.