Q: In your preamble, you noted that you hope that people connect with the election campaign, the remaining three weeks. I think it’s fair to say we’re two weeks in and hardly have captivated the national attention.

(Dutton laughs, which is very gallows humour.)

I’m just wondering what you have to inspire or excite voters to change their vote.

Dutton:

I think, to be honest, most families at the moment, most Australians, are just working out around their kitchen table tonight, “How the hell am I going to pay the electricity bill? How am I going to pay the insurance bill which has gone up under this government?” If they’ve been to the supermarket this week, they’re paying 30% more for groceries under Mr Albanese.

Our plan is to fix Labor’s cost-of-living crisis by reducing the cost of petrol and diesel by 25 cents a litre. That will drive down the cost of filling up your tank by $14 every week – every car.

The government doesn’t speak anything about it but, to buy a new Ford Ranger under this government, it’ll go up by $14,400 by 2029.

A RAV4 hybrid goes up by almost $10,000 under Mr Albanese and Mr Bowen. I think, once Australians start to hear that message, they’ll realise that they can’t afford three more years of Labor.

It would be a disaster for WA and for the economy for Mr Albanese to be in partnership with Mr Bandt – but that’s exactly what will happen in a minority government for the Labor Party. I will never form government with a minority government that is racist, as is the case with the Greens, that is so anti-mining, anti-business, anti-defence, pro-hard-core drugs.

But Mr Albanese will do a deal with the Greens in a heartbeat. And that would be a disaster for our country. So I think, as Australians look at that choice, more of them, as they tune in – they’re busy running their kids around to school and sport and going to work doing bookwork at the night-time – when they get closer to the election, they’ll look very sharply oat the two options before them. They’ll realise, as I’m sure increasingly many millions of Australians do, that we can’t afford three more years of Anthony