Prime minister Anthony Albanese and opposition chief Peter Dutton have each lodged their votes.
Dutton voted in his seat of Dickson on the Albany Creek state college in Brisbane together with his spouse, Kirilly, and sons, Harry and Tom. He’s held the seat since 2001.
Albanese was joined by his companion, Jodie, and son, Nathan, at a main college in Marrickville, Sydney. The polling station is in his seat, Grayndler, which he’s held since 1996.
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n It’s unclear how this may translate into seats given the rise within the variety of electorates which might be three-way contests, fairly than coming right down to a battle between Labor and the Coalition. Pollster Shaun Ratcliff informed Guardian Australia that the newest polls present the Coalition “going backwards” in a collection of key seats he has been monitoring, after preliminary polls in February had the Coalition forward.
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You’ll find extra granular breakdowns of the polls, together with by demography, on our monitoring web page.
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Somewhat further afield, Australians have already voted, Emily Wind reports:
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In the leadup to election day, Australians have cast their ballots in a number of remote locations and even from overseas – but none as far south as the 100-odd expeditioners currently working in Antarctica.
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Expeditioners working at Australia’s Antarctic and sub-Antarctic stations were able to cast their vote by telephone – a process typically reserved for voters who are blind or have low vision – with no physical ballot booth setup this year.
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Voting opened on 22 April, with expeditioners able to vote early or on election day. But, unlike others, they won’t be fined if they do not vote, according to the Australian Electoral Commission.
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The AEC says Australians travelling to work in Antarctica need to register as an Antarctic elector before leaving the country – with “Antarctic” including the Australian Antarctic Territory, the Territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Macquarie Island, and a ship at sea in transit to or from Antarctica.
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Arrangements were put in place for expeditioners on the RSV Nuyina in case it arrived back later than scheduled (on 2 May, the day before the election).
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It is just past 8am here in Sydney, and the polling booths are officially open!
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Voters can lodge their ballots between 8am to 6pm today.
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For a refresher on when, where and how to vote, here is our 2025 voting guide with everything you need to know.
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Key occasions
Ben Doherty
They do politics in a different way in America
So far as I’m conscious, no candidate in as we speak’s Australian federal election has additionally nominated themselves to be pope (any baptised Catholic male is canonically eligible to be elected to the papacy. Nonetheless, in follow (since 1378 anyway), the conclave all the time chooses a cardinal).
Additionally, Donald Trump will not be Catholic.
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Ben Doherty
A number of candidates in Sydney – Australia’s most fiercely capitalistic metropolis – have posted “handing out how-to-vote playing cards” adverts on Airtasker, hoping to bolster their presence at polling cubicles – and, so the logic goes, their votes.
A perfunctory search of the service market app revealed a number of candidates posted adverts in search of gig economic system staff for “Polling sales space attendance”.
Most adverts are a little bit coy about exactly whose electoral fortunes staff will profit.
One from a “David S” asks for help handing out how-to-vote playing cards in Manly within the keenly contested, independent-held seat of Warringah. He set a activity price range of $100.
The unbiased candidate for Reid, Steven Commerford, has put his title to his marketing campaign’s $120 provide. “Put on cozy sneakers,” the advert counsels. “T-shirt or cap supplied.”
One other put up affords $35 (with some negotiation obvious) to place up corflutes in and round Chatswood.
Caitlin Cassidy
In a federal election first, Uber Eats is permitting clients in sure cities to order democracy sausages to their door, for “hardworking Australians” who “discover themselves with out entry to a sausage” on 3 Could.
Components of Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney have entry to the promo, with $3.50 for each sausage donated to Australian Purple Cross companions.
Sadly, Rafqa Touma was exterior the supply zone and was as a substitute supplied a bulk package deal of raw sausages – not likely the identical. I ordered a meat sausage with onion and sauce and a vegetarian sausage from the “Democracy Sausage Retailer” for $15.96, supply included.
It took lower than half an hour to reach in inexperienced bins labelled “democracy sausage delivered”. Inside was, unsurprisingly, a bit of white bread with a sausage, sauces in sachets and a poll paper that ticked preferences for sauces, onion and number of sausage. “Train your Democratic Chew,” the field informed me.
The meat sausage was chilly, whereas the vegetarian sausage tasted like sawdust. I gave the leftovers to my canine, who lapped it up eagerly and stained his snout with mustard.
Prime minister Anthony Albanese and opposition chief Peter Dutton have each lodged their votes.
Dutton voted in his seat of Dickson on the Albany Creek state college in Brisbane together with his spouse, Kirilly, and sons, Harry and Tom. He’s held the seat since 2001.
Albanese was joined by his companion, Jodie, and son, Nathan, at a main college in Marrickville, Sydney. The polling station is in his seat, Grayndler, which he’s held since 1996.
Caitlin Cassidy
Palestine, gun crime and value of residing key points in Blaxland in Sydney’s west
Subsequent to the seat of Parramatta is Blaxland, the place unbiased Ahmed Ouf hopes to unseat Labor for the primary time within the citizens’s historical past.
It’s presently held by the training minister, Jason Clare, on a 13% margin. Mufeeza, 24, is campaigning for Ouf at Parramatta west public college. Earlier than he ran for parliament, she knew him as her native chemist.
It’s a motion I truly help resulting from his stance on Palestine, so I’m right here to help him. I’ve lived right here all my life and we haven’t had illustration, besides from the Greens, till now.
Exterior the polling sales space, votes are cut up. Russal, who’s been within the space for just below three years, voted Liberal as a result of occasion’s robust stance on crime and need for “extra police patrols” after gun violence within the space.
Rebecca, a college employee who lately moved to the citizens, voted Greens, citing the occasion’s stance on housing affordability, cost-of-living insurance policies and opposition to worldwide pupil caps.
In the meantime, Pramola, who lately grew to become an Australian citizen, voted Labor, largely due to its childcare subsidy. Her son has simply turned one.
Since Covid, price of residing has elevated loads, but it surely’s your complete world, proper? Due to inflation. I believe individuals are extra joyful beneath Labor.
Caitlin Cassidy
Volunteers make good at Parramatta college after corflute drama Friday evening
Parramatta west public college had regained a way of calm on Saturday afternoon after Liberal indicators erected late final evening have been eliminated or destroyed. Volunteers stood aspect by aspect, regardless of sporting totally different colors, jesting amicably.
The Liberal candidate, Katie Mullens, who’s contesting the marginal seat for the primary time, informed the Sydney Morning Herald it was “disappointing” folks have been placing their efforts into “destruction as a substitute of the problems that basically matter”.
Warren Gardener has been volunteering for Labor for 50 years. He says Andrew Charlton, who holds the seat on a 3.7% margin, has gone from an outsider final election to the frontrunner. He wasn’t concerned in any poster removing however says this 12 months has been marred by drama over corflutes.
Some of these things has turn out to be excessive, flyering all over the place … right here it’s normally civilised … I don’t see how [putting up posters] helps the Coalition. A number of months in the past issues weren’t wanting superb [for Labor] however issues have circled fairly dramatically.
Josh is volunteering for the Liberal occasion for the second time. The 23-year-old says the price of residing is the largest problem on folks’s minds – notably for him as a brand new house owner and small enterprise proprietor.
It’s a fairly even cut up right here from what I can see – lots of people are transferring away from the main events too. One factor folks aren’t factoring is preferences. One Nation preferencing Liberal second goes to be enormous.
There’s been some nastiness [during the campaign] – I’ve been spat on by one other volunteer. It’s good as we speak to have volunteers that no matter events are getting alongside.
Sufficient with the magic screens and TPP projections – if there’s not a dirigible in tonight’s election protection, I shall be very dissatisfied.
Ben Doherty
Australians forged ballots from Antarctica to Apia, Nauru to New York
Tens of hundreds of Australians will forged ballots world wide this election.
The Division of Overseas Affairs and Commerce and Austrade will handle 111 abroad voting areas in 83 nations, the biggest quantity ever for a federal election.
Within the 2023 Voice referendum, 63,000 in-person votes have been forged, and greater than 9000 postal votes have been obtained.
For the primary time, Australians within the Maldives have been in a position to forged their vote in particular person on the Australian excessive fee in Male. It’s also the primary time Australians in Kolkata, an Indian metropolis, and Koror, a metropolis within the western Pacific nation of Palau, have been in a position to vote in particular person at a federal election.
London is the biggest worldwide polling place in each Australian federal election, however there are additionally main voting centres in New York, Berlin, and Hong Kong.
Barely a handful of voters are anticipated in cubicles in Nauru, Accra, Rarotonga and Bandar Seri Begawan.
Even Australians stationed in Antarctica are required to vote; they will forged a poll by cellphone.
Australia has voting centres all throughout the Pacific, together with in Vanuatu (the place Australia is the biggest supply of vacationers).
“Australia’s election course of sprawls proper throughout the Pacific, all the best way to the island of Tahiti at Australia’s consulate basic in Pape’ete, French Polynesia,” Australia’s deputy consul-general to Pape’ete, Claire Lewis, stated.
This 12 months, three cruise ships shall be docked in Pape’ete Port, every carrying over 1,000 passengers, a lot of whom are Australian. Our small put up shall be able to welcome Australians who will vote on this 12 months’s federal election.”
Between 60 and 80 Australians reside in French Polynesia, which swells with hundreds of vacationers visiting the idyllic islands from October to Could.
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Ben Doherty
Bondi voters suppose Allegra Spender has it ‘within the bag’ at Wentworth, however others are extra cautious
“It’s beginning to get busy now,” the AEC official overseeing the voting at Bondi public college in Sydney’s inside east says. He’s eyeing the queue of oldsters juggling cups of natural chai and pushing democracy sausages into ravenous children who’ve simply completed Saturday morning sport.
Across the ebullient children – for whom the Bondi v Coogee netball scores matter way over Labor v Liberal poll numbers – voters and volunteers of all stripes are chatting politely. It’s a group going out of its approach to exhibit democracy might be civil.
“There’s been so many pre-polling on this space, so the vibe is much more subdued than final election when it was much more reactionary,” says Kirk McDonald, a volunteer for the Wentworth MP, Allegra Spender.
“I believe it’s in all probability within the bag for Allegra,” one voter opines to the concurrence of others.
Her title recognition is so sturdy in these components that the unbiased is afforded the mononym.
“I’m very impressed with Allegra’s marketing campaign. She’s received my help. Her supporters are out in pressure, which is nice to see,” Umesh Chauhan, the person behind the natural chai, says.
Others have been much less enthusiastic and extra cautious. Labor supporter Mark Gerada says the “Invoice Shorten election” (of 2019) nonetheless lurks in the back of his thoughts. And one other politician, additionally not working on this election, is there too – he presently sits behind the Resolute Desk at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
“I need Labor to win federally, and Allegra regionally, and I really feel quietly assured, however I simply don’t belief something anymore, particularly after the American election. It forged a giant shadow. At the least for us, this time, I hope one thing good will come of it,” Gerada says.
The lack of the Voice makes me so unhappy. There’s been no speak in any respect about Indigenous Australia through the election marketing campaign, which makes me so unhappy.
Some polling stations are getting inventive with democracy sausages.
At Crown Avenue main college in Surry Hills (within the Labor citizens of Sydney), the Dutton Canine Basic affords: “Sausage in bread. No cheese. No onions. No smiles. Simply the onerous snag of the opposition.” The Teal Connoisseur Roll is bougie with halloumi and rocket toppings, and comes with “a free slice of local weather concern and a touch of inner-city guilt”. And the One Nation Scorching Wings declare to be “so spicy they are going to have you ever screaming: ‘ship them again to the kitchen’”.
At Double Bay public college in Wentworth, an “Albacheesy” snag boasts onion and cheese toppings.
And the bake stall at Marrickville public college is fairly vibrant certainly:
However the worth of a snag in some electorates is “a far cry from the times of my youth, the place the identical sausage would price solely a gold coin donation,” voter Chloe Taylor says. At Kensignton public college, additionally in Wentworth, a easy sausage prices $7.
“After I posted this on my Instagram story, the replies from my pals have been shocked reacts and feedback like ‘felony!’ and ‘democracy is lifeless’,” Taylor says.
Caitlin Cassidy
Hume’s ‘Chinese language spies’ accusation made potential volunteers ‘afraid’ to work on polling cubicles, says Li
Li additionally referred to as out unsubstantiated feedback made by Coalition frontbencher Jane Hume that “Chinese language spies” might be engaged on Labor pre-poll cubicles. He stated Australians with Chinese language heritage had contacted him and supplied to volunteer, however they now not felt snug.
They have been afraid they might be accused of being spies … it’s completely disenfranchising for the Australian Chinese language group … we’ve been right here for over 200 years. We’ve simply as a lot proper to take part in Australian democracy as anybody else.
Caitlin Cassidy
State MP Jason Yat-Sen Li assured however ‘chasing each single vote’ for Labor at Burwood sales space
The state member for Strathfield, Jason Yat-Sen Li, is handing out flyers for the Reid MP, Sally Sitou, on the entrance of Burwood main college in Sydney’s inside west. He’s been right here since 8am and feels assured Labor will win, however is “chasing each single vote”.
The sensation’s good … On this space, price of residing and colleges – the very fact we’re absolutely funding public colleges – is admittedly resonating. There’s additionally quite a lot of Chinese language heritage residents round right here – for them what’s resonating is that they don’t like nuclear energy as a result of they’ve skilled Fukushima, and the hangover from the Morrison years remains to be of their minds.
Li doesn’t suppose the Liberal occasion’s option to run a candidate with Chinese language heritage will make a distinction. Based on census knowledge, 32.8% of the Burwood inhabitants has Chinese language ancestry, in contrast with 5.5% nationally.
It’s nice that there are extra Chinese language Aussies placing their hand up – it’s additionally nice for the citizens to have a various candidate from each main events. However … I don’t suppose simply because somebody’s Chinese language folks would vote for them.
Caitlin Cassidy
Coalition hoping to take seat of Reid from Labor’s Sally Sitou
Within the Sydney inside west suburb of Burwood, Liberal occasion posters studying “Let’s Get Australia Again on Monitor” have been wrapped round Burwood Public college’s fence.
The Coalition is hoping to take the seat of Reid from Labor’s Sally Sitou, who took it from the Liberals on a margin of 5.2% in 2022.
Gavin, 24, is volunteering for the primary time backing the Liberal candidate, Grange Chung. Gavin says Chung’s background – each are Chinese language Australians – is what impressed him to become involved.
It’s not concerning the occasion, I simply need to help an amazing candidate like him. Many individuals like him, I’ve had quite a lot of help.
Christopher Xie, 18, forged his first poll at Burwood Public on Saturday morning. He’s lived within the space for 13 years, and voted for the Greens with Hecs/Assist debt entrance of centre as a brand new college pupil, in addition to the housing disaster and transport prices.
I believe it’s vital to vote as a result of lots of people now are recognising that they’ve a stronger voice, particularly of their native space. Sally [Sitou] has been to quite a lot of occasions and accomplished quite a lot of advocating, with each occasion and each politician they will all the time do higher, however she’s accomplished very effectively.
Angela Yao, 26, voted for Sitou with tax and power invoice aid in thoughts.
Rising up, my mother and father have all the time voted Labor, as a result of I believe they profit the immigrants extra. I’ve all the time leaned in direction of Labor and did this time too.
Upstanding Australian, Max (a canine), is the face of the Cute and Sincere Cavalier Celebration showing on a (not so) official federal election corflute within the Gold Coast, Queensland.
“Sadly I had already voted earlier than I noticed this poster on the Gold Coast,” Guardian’s Warren Murray lamented.
Dutton makes seventeenth marketing campaign go to to a petroleum station
Opposition chief Peter Dutton has dropped into a petroleum station with senator James Patterson as he visits Melbourne swing seats this election morning.
(Seems just like the seventeenth petrol station he has made an look at throughout his election marketing campaign.)
Right here he’s, pictured holding a “25 cents off petrol” signal:
