Hello and welcome to the third week of this five week election campaign. This week is the last chance Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton have to convince voters of their plans before the easter break, and early voting begins, so the pressure is on.

We will examine the big housing and tax promises made at the Sunday campaign launches – as we reported when Peter Dutton was doing his budget reply speech, the Liberal party was considering making mortgage repayments tax deductible and well, they have hit the panic button and done it.

Labor meanwhile is looking to expand government’s role in building houses – but it doesn’t look like it will actually be going all the way and have the government directly involved in the building.

But, as we have been banging on about in this little blog, it seems that a vibe has taken hold this election and voters know the lay of the land.

As AAP reports:

When asked to predict the outcome of the May 3 election, 64 per cent of [Newspoll] respondents said they expected a Labor government while 36 per cent said they thought the coalition would win.

A Labor minority government – being backed up with the support of minor parties or independents – was thought the mostly likely result by 43 per cent.

The survey of 1271 voters was conducted online between April 7 and April 10, before the formal campaign launches of Labor and the coalition on Sunday.

Newspoll remains on 52-48 to Labor, but the Coalition’s primary vote has slipped again (I think this is the third Newspoll it has gone backwards)

We’ll cover all the day’s events with a little bit extra – we have some fact checks and explainers to drop out across the day.

Second coffee is on. It will not be the last.

Ready?

Let’s get into it.