Early press conference from Anthony Albanese this morning.

He is asked if he will serve a full term if he is elected (there was a rumour floating around that he was planning on peacing out half way through a second term, not helped by buying a Central Coast beach house)

Albanese says:

If elected, I’ll serve a full term. I think that’s what the Australian people would expect of me. And that is the context of that answer. I’ll tell you what – I don’t take anything for granted on May 3 and I don’t know what I’ll be doing on May 4. As I’ve said – I think yesterday – I know, hopefully. I have a bit of a tradition of watching a Star Wars movie on May the 4th because I quite appreciate the, ah, sense of history there.

And I’m an old Star Wars guy, to get that out of the way – the first three movies are the best. That’s all I know about the evening of May the Fourth. But I’m trying to climb the mountain here. I’m trying to be the first prime minister (re-elected) since John Howard in 2004 – it’s been 21 years, we’ve had a revolving door. I don’t think, objectively, that’s in the interests of Australia.